Budget 2026 Sparks Outrage: Employers Warn Every Worker in Bulgaria Now Carries 15,000 Euros Debt Burden
Today’s nationwide protest focuses on the draft budget for 2026, which is moving to its second reading in parliamentary committees. The dissatisfaction expressed by employers’ groups is now reinforced by the European Commission, which warned that the financial framework Bulgaria is preparing may breach the EU’s fiscal rules.
Vasil Velev, head of the Association of Industrial Capital, said the warnings from Brussels only confirm what economists have been predicting for months: an excessive deficit is likely if the government maintains its current course....