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Bulgaria’s January 2024 provisional target date for joining the euro zone remains unchanged after the four parliamentary groups that make up the country’s ruling coalition met to discuss the issue […]
Fitch Ratings has re-affirmed Bulgaria’s sovereign long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at ‘BBB’, maintaining a po ...
Fifty-four per cent of Bulgarians are in favour of the country adopting the EU’s common currency the euro, a gain of six percentage points compa ...
Public support for the euro has reached an all-time high, according to the European Commission’s latest Eurobarometer survey, the results of whi ...
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the list of banks in Bulgaria which will be subject to direct supervision by the ECB, as of October 1 2020, as part […]
Fitch Ratings said on July 17 that Bulgaria’s admission to the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM2), the euro zone’s “waiting room”, was a positive development for the country’s credit rating, but […]
The European Central Bank (ECB) said on July 10 that Bulgaria and Croatia have been accepted to join the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM2), the euro zone’s “waiting room”. The two […]
Rumours of a change to the exchange rate between the lev and the euro have resulted in Bulgarians massively changing the local currency for euro, according to a report by […]
As of December 16, consumers and businesses in non-euro zone EU countries will enjoy cheaper cross-border payments in euro, the European Commission said. New EU ruleswill ensure that all cross-border payments […]
After four years, the capital controls in Greece have finally been lifted. The grounds for such a development had been laid by the previous government and has been implemented by […]
