EU Commissioner for Multilingualism Leonard Orban expressed Friday his support for Bulgaria's position in the dispute over the spelling of EU common currency euro.

"Each and every EU official language should be respected," the commissioner said at a meeting with Bulgaria's EU Affairs Minister Gergana Grancharova.

Bulgaria insists on writing the name of the currency as it is transcribed in Cyrillic - "evro" instead of "euro".

The European Central Bank however does not agree saying one and the same spelling of the word should be used in the translations in all EU official languages.

"The solution of the problem is to found at the highest political level," Commissioner Orban explained.

It is now up to the Portuguese presidency to decide on the spelling.

Other countries where the euro is pronounced differently, including Slovenia, which also uses "evro", have tried to obtain a different spelling of the common currency. They all failed - except for Greece.

Bulgaria is in the middle of a battle for keeping the Cyrillic spelling of all the words in the European legal papers. The country is the first to introduce the Cyrillic alphabet as an official one in the block.

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