Ex-Economy Minister: Bulgaria Unlikely to Enter Eurozone in Early 2025
In a recent interview on Nova TV, former Minister of Economy Bogdan Bogdanov expressed skepticism regarding Bulgaria's prospects of entering the Eurozone at the outset of 2025
The coalition government, headed by Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, will hold its last regular meeting today (July 28). Its first sitting was on December 14, 2021, exactly a month after the last parliamentary election (on November 14), which means that its life lasted about seven and a half months. The Petkov cabinet ranks second among regular governments after November 10, 1989 with the shortest life - the record for the shortest managerial term of a regular cabinet is held by the second government of Andrey Lukanov, which was in power for about three months at the end in 1990
This happens after the cabinet received a vote of no confidence from the National Assembly on June 22. The parliamentary groups of GERB, “Movement for Rights and Freedoms” (DPS), "There Is Such a People" (TISP) and "Vazrazhdane" voted against the government, with which Slavi Trifonov's party overthrew a cabinet in which there were four of his ministers - the foreign minister Teodora Genchovska, the regional minister Grozdan Karadjov, the energy minister Alexander Nikolov and the sports minister Radostin Vasilev, who in the meantime left the formation with six more MPs from the parliamentary group of TISP.
All three attempts to form a new government within the framework of the 47th National Assembly failed. The exploratory mandates given by President Rumen Radev to "We Continue the Change" (as the largest formation in the parliament), GERB (as the formation with the second largest parliamentary group) and BSP (by Radev's choice) were not successfully implemented, and the socialists will return the unfulfilled third term of the president at 10 o'clock today.
The last cabinet meeting is scheduled for 3 p.m. The agenda includes the discussion of 37 points. The more interesting among them are:
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