The governing coalition is meeting at the Joint Governance Council. Topics of discussion this week are the management program, as well as the 2025 budget, Nova TV reports. Initially, the Finance Minister announced that the draft budget would be submitted to the Council of Ministers by February 14. However, its consideration was postponed by one week.
Yesterday, Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova participated in a meeting of finance ministers from the eurozone to report on Bulgaria's progress on the membership criteria. It became clear at the meeting that our country will request extraordinary assessments for the introduction of the euro from the European Commission and the European Central Bank by the end of the month.