Vazrazhdane MP Tsoncho Ganev trashed the 2026 budget at a press conference and said Bulgaria is basically speedrunning the Greek debt crisis. Twenty percent of the whole thing gets funded through loans that add up to 21 billion leva, and the government is delaying tax hikes because the economy is already tanked. Ganev called out the budget for claiming Western European companies will dump investment cash into Bulgaria, even though factories and money are already bailing out of Central and Western Europe.
The party thinks officials are cooking the books with fake statistics to make everything look better than it actually is. Bulgaria might join the eurozone with sketchy numbers, the same way Greece did before everything collapsed.
The party thinks officials are cooking the books with fake statistics to make everything look better than it actually is. Bulgaria might join the eurozone with sketchy numbers, the same way Greece did before everything collapsed.