"I hope that Bulgaria will join the Eurozone on January 1, 2025", caretaker Deputy Prime Minister for EU Funds Management Atanas Pekanov said before an expert debate in Sofia themed "Is Bulgaria Ready for the Eurozone?". It is just a matter of time for Bulgaria to meet the technical and inflation criteria, said Deputy Premier Pekanov.
“Bulgaria has been a member of the EU for 15 years and Bulgarian citizens and businesses often do their transactions abroad and use the euro”, said Atanas Pekanov. In his words, more than EUR 1.5 billion is sent from abroad to Bulgaria, but part of the money is lost during the currency conversion. 45% of Bulgaria's exports are to the euro area, 35% of imports are from the euro area, Deputy Premier Pekanov explained. "The Bulgarian economy is moving with that of the euro area, which means that we are ready to adopt the euro as soon as possible", Atanas Pekanov concluded.
We do not yet have the euro, but the information that we may have it inspires certain market entities, said Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov at the opening of the National Discussion “The Effect of the Eurozone. The Experience of Member States Speaks”...
The Bulgarian Parliament has adopted the Personal Bankruptcy Act, which is an EU requirement for the second payment under the Recovery and Resilience Plan to be implemented. The texts provide that a debtor who fails to service his/her..
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On Friday, the minimum temperatures will be from 15 to 21°C, in Sofia - around 17°C. It will be sunny before noon. Cumulus and cumulus-rainy cloudiness..
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