{"id":13157,"date":"2026-01-01T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bulgaria-adopts-euro-becomes-21st-eurozone-member\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T09:26:07","slug":"bulgaria-adopts-euro-becomes-21st-eurozone-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bulgaria-adopts-euro-becomes-21st-eurozone-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulgaria adopts euro, becomes 21st eurozone member"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure class=\"image\"><figcaption><span>This photo taken on July 27, 2023 shows the Euro sign in Frankfurt, Germany. (Xinhua\/Zhang Fan)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span><strong>Bulgaria joined the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency on New Year&rsquo;s Day.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>SOFIA, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) &mdash; Bulgaria joined the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency on New Year&rsquo;s Day, becoming the 21st member of the euro area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Throughout January, the Bulgarian lev (BGN) will remain in circulation alongside the euro. However, from Feb. 1, the euro will become the country&rsquo;s sole legal tender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Between Jan. 1 and June 30, people will be able to exchange lev for euros free of charge at banks and post offices. After this period, currency exchanges will be subject to a fee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On June 4, 2025, the European Commission announced that Bulgaria had met the criteria to adopt the euro starting Jan. 1, 2026. The conclusion was outlined in the Commission&rsquo;s 2025 Convergence Report prepared at Bulgaria&rsquo;s request. A parallel report from the European Central Bank (ECB) supported the findings. <\/span><span>&#9632;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Bulgaria adopts euro, becomes 21st eurozone member<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This photo taken on July 27, 2023 shows the Euro sign in Frankfurt, Germany. (Xinhua\/Zhang Fan) Bulgaria joined the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency on New Year&rsquo;s Day. SOFIA, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) &mdash; Bulgaria joined the eurozone and adopted the euro as its official currency on New Year&rsquo;s Day, becoming the&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/bulgaria-adopts-euro-becomes-21st-eurozone-member\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Bulgaria adopts euro, becomes 21st eurozone member&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}