Bulgaria has become the 21st country to adopt the euro, replacing the lev after nearly 20 years in the EU. While many hope it will boost the economy, concerns about inflation and political instability persist.

Move comes nearly two decades after it entered the EU as hope for stability clashes with fear of rising prices.

Bulgaria will begin using the euro as its currency on Thursday, and the country hopes it will bring an economic boost, despite concerns.

The Bulgars, a Central Asian Turkic tribe, merged with the local Slavic inhabitants in the late 7th century to form the first Bulgarian state. In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, but by ...

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said yesterday (6 March) in Brussels that his country had the resources to spend more on social programmes to address the country's political, social and economic crises. Plevneliev argued that his country – whose ...

Bulgaria's southern city of Pazardzhik has become the first in the country to ban people from wearing full-face coverings, including the Islamic burqa, for security reasons, Bulgarian daily newspaper Dnevnik reports. A city council vote in the town of ...

A popular late-night talk show host and folk-pop singer could be a spoiler for Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s hopes to form the next government after parliamentary elections on April 4. Stanislav Trifonov, who is known to millions of Bulgarians ...

Humanitarian Aid Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva expressed concern yesterday (23 July) about the political situation in Bulgaria, her home country, where anti-government protests turned violent on their 40th day. Demonstrators blocked the parliament and ...

Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the end of Communist rule. A predominantly Slavonic-speaking, Orthodox Christian country, Bulgaria was the birthplace of the Cyrillic ...

March 1943. Bulgarian authorities prepare to deport 20,000 Jews from Bulgaria, expelling thousands from their homes in Sofia and sending them to the countryside. Held in detention camps, they fear they will meet the same fate as the 11,343 Jews from the ...

Bulgaria has the 26th-largest economy in Europe as measured by gross domestic product. It is the third-biggest economy in the Balkans after Romania and Greece. “Bulgaria has undergone a significant transformation over the past three decades,” the World ...