site.btaNovember 20, 2002: EP Votes Jan. 1, 2007 as EU Accession Date for Bulgaria
Flags in front of European Parliament's building in Strasbourg, France (European Parliament Photo)
On November 20, 2022, the European Parliament (EP) voted January 1, 2007 as the date for Bulgaria and Romania's accession to the European Union (EU). The news were broken by former National Assembly chair Ognyan Gerdzhikov (2001-2005), who led a Bulgarian parliamentary delegation in Strasbourg where it took part in the debates at the EP on the future of the EU.
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