What changed

DRAFT EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT LEGISLATIVE RESOLUTION

having regard to Rule 108 of its Rules of Procedure,

having regard to the report of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (A100000/2025),(A10-0113/2025),

1. Approves the Commission proposal;

EXPLANATORY STATEMENT

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MINORITY POSITION

MEP Rada Laykova

Minority position under Rule 56(4) of the Rules of Procedure

Proposal for a Council decision on the adoption by Bulgaria of the euro on 1 January 2026

The supposed job of the EP is to scrutinize the Commission´s assessment on behalf of the people, as they will pay the price of the ignored Maastricht criteria - mathematical rules to ensure no Ponzi scheme happens to the Euro.

However, what did it do?

 Ignore incoherence between findings within the Commission report and its final assessment, which strongly suggests a political decision that ignores Maastricht criteria and math to the detriment of the people;

 ignore the suspicious Bulgarian budget data sent to the Commission with absurd income projections and concealed expenses;

 ignore the suppressed referendum in Bulgaria;

 replace the scrutiny by a gleeful statement cheerleading Bulgaria´s boarding of the “Eurotanic”, ignoring the obvious state of the Euro, which shows several classic terminal signs of a flat currency. A short statement like “shared sorrow is half sorrow” would have been more honest.

The lack of diligence might have serious and far-reaching consequences for the people in the Eurozone or Bulgaria as it recreates certain aspects of Greece´s accession into the Euro.

Here, the EU´s “democracy in action” was “democracy in name only” and the people will pay the price, as evidenced in the past.

PROCEDURE – COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE

Title

Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026

References

COM(2025)0304 – C10-0110/2025 – 2025/0158(NLE)

Date of consultation or request for consent

5.6.2025

Committee(s) responsible

ECON

Rapporteurs

Date appointed

Eva Maydell

15.5.2025

Date adopted

24.6.2025

Result of final vote

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46

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5

Members present for the final vote

Georgios Aftias, Rasmus Andresen, Francisco Assis, Stephen Nikola Bartulica, Isabel Benjumea Benjumea, Damian Boeselager, Gilles Boyer, Giovanni Crosetto, Siegbert Frank Droese, Engin Eroglu, Marco Falcone, Markus Ferber, Jonás Fernández, Claire Fita, Enikő Győri, Michalis Hadjipantela, Eero Heinäluoma, Billy Kelleher, Kinga Kollár, Aurore Lalucq, Rada Laykova, Marlena Maląg, Jorge Martín Frías, Fulvio Martusciello, Siegfried Mureşan, Fernando Navarrete Rojas, Denis Nesci, Luděk Niedermayer, Ľudovít Ódor, Nikos Papandreou, Lídia Pereira, Kira Marie Peter-Hansen, Pierre Pimpie, Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová, Evelyn Regner, Paulius Saudargas, Martin Schirdewan, Ralf Seekatz, Irene Tinagli, Marie Toussaint, Anouk Van Brug, Lara Wolters, Auke Zijlstra

Substitutes present for the final vote

Regina Doherty, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Fernand Kartheiser, Catarina Martins, Eva Maydell, Andreas Schwab, Mariateresa Vivaldini, Jan-Peter Warnke

Members under Rule 216(7) present for the final vote

Jaroslav Bžoch, Damien Carême, Matjaž Nemec, Lara Wolters

Date tabled

25.6.2025

FINAL VOTE BY ROLL CALL BY THE COMMITTEE RESPONSIBLE

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