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When it joined the European Union in 2007, Bulgaria committed to switching its currency, the lev, to the euro, as stated in the 2005 EU accession treaty.The transition will occur once the country meets all the euro convergence criteria; at the moment, Bulgaria does not fulfill only one single criterion – price stability (i.e. inflation).
The enlargement of the eurozone is an ongoing process within the European Union (EU).All member states of the European Union, except Denmark which negotiated an opt-out from the provisions, are obliged to adopt the euro as their sole currency once they meet the criteria, which include: complying with the debt and deficit criteria outlined by the Stability and Growth Pact, keeping inflation and ...
In 2011 the Bulgarian finance minister Simeon Djankov acknowledged his earlier eagerness for Bulgaria to join the euro, but considered 2015 as a more likely date. [20] If Bulgaria follows the standard path to euro adoption, it would use the euro two years after joining the European exchange rate mechanism (ERM II) (a formality given the lev's ...
Government policy on euro adoption Convergence criteria compliance [21] (as of June 2024) Notes Bulgaria: Lev (BGN) 1.95583 [nb 1] 2007-01-01 2020-07-10 Euro adoption on 1 July 2025 [22] Compliant with 4 out of 5 criteria (all except inflation) [23] The Bulgarian government expects to be in compliance with all criteria by the end of 2024 [23 ...
In September 2011, a diplomatic source close to the euro adoption preparation talks with the seven remaining new member states who had yet to adopt the euro at that time (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania), claimed that the monetary union (eurozone) they had thought they were going to join upon their ...
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Government policy on euro adoption Convergence criteria compliance [17] (as of June 2024) Notes Bulgaria: Lev (BGN) 1.95583 [note 1] 2007-01-01 2020-07-10 Euro adoption on 1 July 2025 [5] Compliant with 4 out of 5 criteria (all except inflation) [6] The Bulgarian government expects to be in compliance with all criteria by the end of 2024 [6 ...
The euro is the result of the European Union's project for economic and monetary union that came fully into being on 1 January 2002 and it is now the currency used by the majority of the European Union's member states, with all but Denmark (which has an opt-out in the EU treaties) bound to adopt it.