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France 24 (8 July 2025)

EU ministers are set to give the final green light on Tuesday for Bulgaria to adopt the euro on January 1, 2026, when the country would become the single currency area's 21st member.

Bulgaria's switch from the lev to the euro next year will come 19 years after the country of 6.4 million people joined the European Union.

"We did it!" Bulgarian Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov said.

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