{"id":8014,"date":"2025-12-26T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/how-do-bulgarians-feel-about-joining-the-euro-politico\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T08:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T08:56:09","slug":"how-do-bulgarians-feel-about-joining-the-euro-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/how-do-bulgarians-feel-about-joining-the-euro-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"How do Bulgarians feel about joining the euro? \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Bulgaria is set to adopt the EU\u2019s single currency on Jan. 1, but polling shows the Balkan nation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-tells-skeptical-bulgarians-the-euro-their-guardian-angel-dangerous-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is sharply divided <\/a>on whether it\u2019s a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>POLITICO spoke to some Bulgarians about their fears and hopes, as they say goodbye to their national currency, the lev. Their comments have been edited for length. <\/p>\n<div class=\"cover-image-block\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull is-light\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0;min-height:50px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-cover-is-layout-3 wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--spacing-4)\"><strong>Anton Teofilov, 73<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0c7431aaa65ecdb6e93c3d5ccfa4c5b3\" style=\"color:#9b9b9b;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--spacing-9)\"><em>Vendor at the open-air market in Pernik, a small city 100 kilometers from Sofia<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide\" style=\"padding-right:0;padding-left:0;min-height:596px;aspect-ratio:unset;\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-0 has-background-dim\" style=\"background-color:#8f6c5e\"\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>What do you think about Bulgaria joining the eurozone?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are a different generation, but we support the euro. We\u2019ll benefit hugely from joining the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/bulgaria-eurozone-citizen-opinions\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bulgaria is set to adopt the EU\u2019s single currency on Jan. 1, but polling shows the Balkan nation is sharply divided on whether it\u2019s a good thing. POLITICO spoke to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nouvellesdirectes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}