EU to approve Bulgaria’s euro bid

The country could join the single currency on Jan. 1, 2026, even as local concerns over adoption persist.

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The EU will shortly approve Bulgaria’s bid to adopt the euro as early as Jan. 1, 2026, making it the 21st member of the bloc’s currency union.

After years of waiting, several officials told POLITICO that the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) are expected to finally give their blessing in a report that will be published next Wednesday.
Welcome to the Euro friends 👍🏻
Increasing the reach of their power by risking internal cohesion. Brexiteers railing against Poles did not wake up the EU, apparently.
- I'm not sure the opinions of British Eurosceptics should be given much weight here. Britain was always unusually wary of the EU, that's why we had so many carve-outs
- I don't get it. What should the brexiters railing about Poles make others realise? That if you are rich, you destroy vocational schools to get richer, get people from abroad to do basic service and construction jobs that almost nobody in your country is educated to perform, and then make them the scapegoat once your own policies fail the people?