Thousands protest Bulgaria’s euro adoption and call for a referendum
Days before waiting for the 21st member of the Euro region of Bulgaria, the opposition of the movement was prepared on Saturday for a final war to change the program.
Thousands of protesters gathered in a central square in Sofia’s city center to plan the government’s adoption of the Euro and demand a referendum in the new currency. The European Union gave a green light to accept the Euro from January 1st.
The protesters governed by civilian groups, nationalist and pro -Russian parties, declared that they aimed to establish a tent camp in the central square called “Lev Town Town after the National Currency after the rally.
On a platform for the speakers, he hung a great poster, which wrote the Batta Last War for Bulgarian Lev for Bulgarian Lev.
The pro -Russian Vasrazdane party, Kostadin Kostadinov’s leader, said the protesters would be removed from the country’s currency.
“Someone will decide how we spend our money, and the Bulgarian budget will be approved by the European Central Bank,” he said. “This is an anti -state coup, this betrayal.”
Kostadinov announced that deputies from Germany, Lithuania, Romania, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary participated in the event to support the protest.
Prior to the demonstration, Vaszhdane accused of a voting case in parliament to rely on the current government and accused of working to undertake the necessary reforms to recover the stability of public finances and to work for the strong adoption of the Euro.
Parliament will vote for the movement next week, but the pro -EU government coalition is expected to survive.
The Balkan country joined the European Union in 2007 and is currently the last away from its participation in the Euro region. The last institutional obstacle is the approval of both the European Parliament in Strasbourg and the Council of Economic and Financial Affairs in Brussels, planned on July 8th.
These steps come after the Council of Europe’s open approval of Bulgaria, which joined the Euro region on January 1, 2026.
During the EU membership, which lasted for almost twenty years, Bulgaria was disturbed by political instability and corruption, which offered Euroscepticism among 6.4 million citizens.
Now, the scores of the wrong allegations made by the opposition of the Euro region were published that feeds the fears of economic change, which they say that they could bring more poverty in social networks.
Economists say that joining the euro will not make a major change in the Bulgarian economy in the short term. The reason for this is that the government fixes the currency according to laws at a rate of 1 Lev for each 51 Eurocent.
