site.btaUPDATED Boyko Borissov Thanks All Institutions, Partners and MPs for Bulgaria's Entry into Euro Area

Thanking all Bulgarian and European institutions, partners, MPs and all those whose efforts made this possible, GERB leader Boyko Borissov wrote on X on Tuesday after the EU Council unanimously adopted the decisions for Bulgaria's entry into the euro area.

Bulgaria will officially adopt the euro on January 1, 2026, Borissov wrote.

The EU Council voted unanimously on the latest decisions related to Bulgaria's accession to the euro area on January 1, 2026. This completes the procedure, as earlier in the day the European Parliament also approved by a large majority the report on Bulgaria's introduction of the single European currency.

At a news conference later in the day, Borissov said that GERB has no unfulfilled promises. He pointed out that there was a lot of work to do. "We have identified economic development, modernisation and higher incomes," he specified. "This can happen when we are equal and take part in the important decisions of Europe," Borissov added.

The GERB leader pledged stable governance for three more years. There Is Such a People leader Slavi Trifonov and Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Atanas Zafirov are firm on these issues because they also suffered these criticisms, Borissov added. In his words, if MRF - New Beginning leader Delyan Peevski had not voted for the government in Friday's no-confidence motion agains the Cabinet, Bulgaria's eurozone membership would not be a fact now, Borissov argued. 

"Today's act will give results in two, three, four, five years, young people will feel it," he argued. "We succeeded, I am not the prime minister, but we did enough," he added.