site.btaCC-DB Tables Draft Declaration to Parliament on Eurozone Accession by Jan 1, 2026

Continue the Change – Democratic Bulgaria (CC-DB) has tabled to the National Assembly a draft declaration on completing Bulgaria’s full integration into the European Union by joining the eurozone on January 1, 2026, the coalition said in a press release on Monday.

The authors of the declaration call on Parliament to debate and vote on the text as quickly as possible. According to CC-DB, the adoption of the declaration would reaffirm Bulgaria’s commitment to full eurozone membership upon meeting the criteria set out in Article 140 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. It would also reaffirm all prior parliamentary decisions on introducing the euro as official currency and express firm determination for Bulgaria to join the eurozone on January 1, 2026, following a positive assessment by the European Commission and the European Central Bank on June 4, 2025.

The declaration strongly opposes what the coalition describes as attempts to undermine one of Bulgaria’s strategic priorities – full EU integration, through actions that contradict the Constitution and EU law.

CC-DB also responded to President Rumen Radev’s recent proposal for a national referendum on the euro adoption. "It seems there is no one left on the President’s legal team, given that he is now asking Parliament to consider a poorly written populist manifesto that lacks a single legal argument," the statement reads. "This proposal, with its so-called ‘motives’, cannot be taken seriously in the plenary hall. Its goal is transparent – sabotage of Bulgaria’s eurozone accession. We will not take part in the President’s attempt to provoke institutional chaos and attack the rule of law. Everything that needs to be said about the legal and constitutional flaws of this act by Radev is already included in the rationale of our draft declaration," CC-DB’s press release further reads.