Bulgarians adopt euros, Romania remains in place. “Corruption and political control brake access”, believe the Romanians

The news regarding the possibility of Bulgaria, from January 1, 2026, was intensely commented by the Romanians. Why Romania remained behind, why the population in the neighboring country is afraid and why the Romanian politicians do not want to enter the euro area are some of the aspects discussed including on social media platforms.

Bulgaria will join the euro area. Photo: Shutterstock

Bulgaria could become, from January 1, 2026, the 21st Member State of the euro area, despite the internal stresses and fears expressed by a part of the population on the effects of the cost of life.

According to sources quoted by the Politico publication, the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) is to give the Green wave to Bulgaria's accession to the single currency, in a report that will be published next week. The decision comes after years of economic preparations and adjustments, marked by challenges in achieving convergence criteria, especially in the field of inflation.

The Romanians debated on the Reddit online platform about the accession of Bulgaria to the euro area and the perspective of Romania's entry into Euro.

“Bulgaria had a very harsh monetary policy to stay in the margins needed to enter Euro. We chose economic development, ie inflation and budget deficit (it had to be from investments but we have the imbecile imbalances). Romania would not have shown what it looks like today if it was on the route of the euro. You remain in foreign currency but you lower the pressure.commented on a network user.

“Our problem is the commercial balance that is in the tree and we do not produce anything. Not even investments in investment fundsomeone else said.

“The worst of all this combination will come out of the ordinary population whose salaries, pensions, aids should not grow”someone else intervened.

“I would rather say that Bulgaria did not have a monetary policy at all, at least not its own. Leva is coupled to EUR 1999 and before that it was coupled to the German brand. This means, in simple terms, that their currency is completely dependent on EUR, which happens with EUR and with their currency, the exchange rate is not fixed. An economic block with 20 USD GDP ”explained an internet.

“Notable is the fact that this coupling helped it with the inflation generated by the transition to capitalism and that you can have development using deficit and inflation even with the euro. The job with your own currency vs Euro is not that the difference is not so large, in the end both types of monetary units lead to development if you have a functional economy with investment where you need to be in investment.”, Says a user.

“People are afraid of increasing prices”

A user claims that countries outside the euro area have been better off the 2008 crisis.

“In 2008, the third largest economy in the EU, Italy, was about to enter the default and tear down the whole euro area“, Someone said.

“In the meantime, all the countries that were able to set their monetary policies alone, including Romania, have come out of the crisis much better and quickly if the countries of the euro area.”someone else replied.

“Idiot to be to want to give up your own national bank, given that there are such great economic discrepancies between the various countries of the euro area”says another commentator.

“So the situation is super fun. In Bulgaria, the government wants to move to the euro, and the population is about 65% against. In Romania, the population is about 70% for moving to euros, but the government does not want”a commentator looks.

“But I do not understand their logic in Bulgarians, that is, you have had the local currency related to the euro (and before this brand) you have had the disadvantages that are in the euro but none of the benefits ….shows another commentator.

“They are afraid of price increases. As other countries have happened when they have changed. It is a minus at the beginning when you change the euro, but in the long run it is much better.”writes someone else.

“He did not want the government because they mean to assume some reforms and to generate stability, when they were barely managing to give the knees to make the deficit below 10% while stealing everything you can.”, Said someone else.

Why do the Bulgarians adhere before us?

A commentator wonders what would be the reasons why the population does not want to adhere to the euro, since Bulgaria gave up their own monetary policy in the 90s, when they had a severe economic crisis, and they tied Leva, first to the brand, then to the euro. “This is one of the reasons why I can adhere to us”he says.

“The population in Romania has no idea what this move would have, all the more in the current crisis”support a user.

“It is not so with the euro. There are warmer countries that have not adopted the currency. In order to adhere to the euro you need some very harsh tax policies to stay in a small deficit. Many of the infrastructure projects could not be carried out and we went into bankruptcy that we could not control our currency.”he said.

“The main advantage of one's own currency”

“The main advantage of your own currency is that you can eliminate deficit by devaluation, but that also means that you have inflation, and the citizens' savings go on the water of Saturday. It is not so great to have a lion instead of euros, in the end the level of good and correct fiscal polyst.supports a commentator.

Another discusses the fact that in Croatia it has increased everything when it went to the euro.

A commentator shows that politicians prefer their own currency because they are not forced to have minimal responsibility and can always introduce the deficit in consumption instead of investments and borrow to increasing interest, with zero tax responsibility, because “You can always bankrupt your citizens, but you do not go bankrupt.”

“Of course, if you are in the euro, the other countries help you to a certain extent, because they cannot be bankrupt. shows someone else.

“It helps us that we are still Ron”

A commentator claims to help us that we are still: “It helps us on exports and we are more competitive as a price on external. ”

“Given that we import much more than we export, it does not heat this too much, that is, surely, it helps the economy at the macro level, but the ordinary consumer suffers,” someone else replies.

“Yes, the consumer if he consumes” Romanian “should not see any difference, in us inflation and interest kills us. But I suspect that the ordinary Romanian keeps the money in the long term. I think we will adopt as well as Montenegro,” says another commentator.

“Honestly the idea is very good. If Bulgaria is doing well after, then it is worth adopting it, if it does not take it, we stay at the lion. Poland, Sweden, Denmark, the Czech Republic did not go to Euro.”says someone else.

“If we had a competent and performing government it was better at the euro.”replies another user.

Another commentator shows that there is no country that has come to bankruptOnly that they are corrupt and they want control on the coin to be able to do as their heads, how we have now decreased the purchasing power and will probably follow. ”

Another user doubts that Poland would have developed so well in recent years if they were screaming their central European bank in their ear every time they were competing. “Without a discussion that they were more responsible for us, but the idea is that if you do not control your monetary policy, you cut your growth potential. And this is fixed the last thing we need at the moment. ”

“If we move on to the euro, the state can no longer print lei when it has a desire and fewer fiscal evasion would occurE, ”commented someone else.