Decision

Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026

Effect: Passed
Result: 531 for · 69 against · 79 abstained roll call
Date: 8 July 2025, 13:29–13:32
Kind: New EU law · Consultation

More facts (8)

Margin: by a large majority
Text: Report A-10-2025-0113
Dossier: 2025/0158(NLE)
Source: Committee report by Eva Maydell
Topics: Economy & single market Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 2 votes · 2 roll calls
Sitting: Tuesday 8 July 2025
Final vote: 177666

Margin: by a large majority
Text: Report A-10-2025-0113
Dossier: 2025/0158(NLE)
Source: Committee report by Eva Maydell
Topics: Economy & single market Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 2 votes · 2 roll calls
Sitting: Tuesday 8 July 2025
Final vote: 177666

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Votes on this decision

Members on the final vote

Result

The final vote and what it means for this kind of decision.

Passed by a large majority.

Parliament adopted its position on the law.

Backed by Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP and ECR; opposed by ESN; The Left and Patriots mostly abstained.

Groups

Members' votes, each counted in the group they belonged to on the day. **No vote**: in office that day, no position recorded. **Majority line**: the most common position. **Clear line**: a position with at least two thirds of the group's votes (at least 10 members voting), otherwise Divided. **Cohesion**: Agreement Index, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all voted the same (method).
Group	For	Against	Abst.	No vote	Majority line	Clear line	Cohesion
The Left	For 12	Against 0	Abst. 28	No vote 6 of 46	Majority line Abstained	Clear line Abstained	Cohesion 0.55
Greens	For 52	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 1 of 53	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
S&D	For 125	Against 1	Abst. 0	No vote 10 of 136	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.99
Renew	For 70	Against 1	Abst. 1	No vote 3 of 75	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.96
EPP	For 176	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 12 of 188	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
ECR	For 60	Against 5	Abst. 12	No vote 2 of 79	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.67
Patriots	For 26	Against 20	Abst. 34	No vote 5 of 85	Majority line Abstained	Clear line Divided	Cohesion 0.14
ESN	For 0	Against 26	Abst. 0	No vote 1 of 27	Majority line Against	Clear line Against	Cohesion 1.00
No group	For 10	Against 16	Abst. 4	No vote 0 of 30	Majority line —	Clear line No line	Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS changed group, Elena YONCHEVA changed group, Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group, Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group, Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group, Laurent CASTILLO changed group, Lukas SIEPER changed group, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Roberto VANNACCI changed group, Sander SMIT changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 32

Members who voted otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds of the votes cast, at least 10 members voting) of the group they sat in that day. A group without a clear line is divided and not counted.

The Left line Abstained · 12 voted for or against of 40 who voted
Voted for or against (12)
- Carola RACKETE Germany
- Elena KOUNTOURA Greece
- Jussi SARAMO Finland
- Kathleen FUNCHION Ireland
- Konstantinos ARVANITIS Greece
- Lynn BOYLAN Ireland
- Merja KYLLÖNEN Finland
- Nikolas FARANTOURIS Greece
- Nikos PAPPAS Greece
- Per CLAUSEN Denmark
- Pernando BARRENA ARZA Spain
- Younous OMARJEE France
S&D line For · 1 voted against of 126 who voted
Voted against (1)
- Marianne VIND Denmark
Renew line For · 1 voted against, 1 abstained of 72 who voted
Voted against (1)
- Christine SINGER Germany
Abstained (1)
- Engin EROGLU Germany
ECR line For · 5 voted against, 12 abstained of 77 who voted
Voted against (5)
- Beatrice TIMGREN Sweden
- Charlie WEIMERS Sweden
- Dick ERIXON Sweden
- Kristoffer STORM Denmark
- Sebastian TYNKKYNEN Finland
Abstained (12)
- Anna ZALEWSKA Poland
- Dominik TARCZYŃSKI Poland
- Emmanouil FRAGKOS Greece
- Galato ALEXANDRAKI Greece
- Guillaume PELTIER France
- Jaak MADISON Estonia
- Laurence TROCHU France
- Marion MARÉCHAL France
- Nicolas BAY France
- Patryk JAKI Poland
- Stephen Nikola BARTULICA Croatia
- Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI Lithuania

Countries

The final vote by national delegation.

Votes by country (27 delegations)

Members' votes by country. **No vote**: in office that day, no position recorded. **Cohesion**: Agreement Index of the delegation, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all the same; it reflects the mix of groups (method).
Country	For	Against	Abst.	No vote	Cohesion
Austria	14	6	0	0	0.55
Belgium	16	3	2	1	0.64
Bulgaria	14	3	0	0	0.74
Cyprus	5	0	1	0	—
Czechia	15	4	0	2	0.68
Germany	63	23	4	6	0.55
Denmark	11	3	0	1	0.68
Estonia	6	0	1	0	—
Spain	53	0	3	4	0.92
Finland	12	1	0	2	0.88
France	37	1	39	4	0.26
Greece	13	3	4	1	0.47
Croatia	11	0	1	0	0.88
Hungary	18	1	0	2	0.92
Ireland	13	0	1	0	0.89
Italy	55	7	7	7	0.70
Lithuania	9	1	1	0	0.73
Luxembourg	5	0	1	0	—
Latvia	8	0	0	1	—
Malta	5	0	0	1	—
Netherlands	24	0	6	1	0.70
Poland	42	6	3	2	0.74
Portugal	16	0	3	2	0.76
Romania	28	2	0	3	0.90
Sweden	16	3	2	0	0.64
Slovenia	9	0	0	0	—
Slovakia	13	2	0	0	0.80

Members

Each member’s recorded position on the final roll call, in the group they sat in that day. Filter by country, group, position or name.

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Debate speakers and how they voted

Members who spoke in the plenary debate on the dossier. **Speeches**: how many times they took the floor. **Final vote**: their recorded position on this decision's final roll call.
Member	Group	Speeches	Spoke	Final vote
Nicolae ȘTEFĂNUȚĂ Romania	Greens	Speeches3	8 Jul 2025 (verbatim report, official site)	For
Rada LAYKOVA Bulgaria	ESN	Speeches1	8 Jul 2025 (verbatim report, official site) · for the group	Against
Jeroen LENAERS Netherlands	EPP	Speeches1	8 Jul 2025 (verbatim report, official site) · for the group	For
Eva MAYDELL Bulgaria	EPP	Speeches1	8 Jul 2025 (verbatim report, official site)	For

All votes on this decision, 2

In voting order. **Result**: for–against–abstained (a show of hands has no count). **Requested by**: the groups that asked for a roll call, a split vote or a separate vote.
No.	Vote	Recorded	Result	Requested by
1	Motion for adjournment of the vote A10-0113/2025 – Eva Maydell – Motion for adjournment of the vote	Roll call	71 for, 539 against, 64 abstained Rejected
2	Final vote A10-0113/2025 – Eva Maydell – Commission proposal to the Council	Roll call	531 for, 69 against, 79 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0113

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Parliament approved the Commission proposal for a Council decision allowing Bulgaria to adopt the euro on 1 January 2026.

This means Parliament supports lifting Bulgaria's derogation and its entry into the euro area as its twenty-first member.

Parliament asks the Council to notify it if it intends to depart from the approved text and to consult it again if it makes substantial amendments.

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The text in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source

Parliament approves the Commission proposal for Bulgaria to adopt the euro on 1 January 2026, based on its assessment of convergence criteria.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/0158(NLE) · Non-legislative procedure

Bulgaria's adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026

Parliament gave its opinion on 8 July 2025. The Council takes the final decision.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier

Referred to committee · 19 June 2025 (done)
Committee work · Report adopted 24 June 2025 (done)
Tabled for plenary · 25 June 2025 (done)
Plenary vote · Adopted 8 July 2025 (done)
Adopted by the Council (to come)

Lead committee: ECON · Rapporteur: Eva MAYDELL (EPP)

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Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-07-08/1
Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 8 July 2025 (European Parliament)
Results of votes, sitting of 8 July 2025 (European Parliament)
Data source: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-07-08
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026”. Decision, 8 July 2025. votingId 177666, document A-10-2025-0113, reference 2025/0158(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-07-08/1 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 8 July 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-07-08-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 8 July 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-07-08-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-07-08, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-07-08/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).

BibTeX

@misc{epw-decision-2025-07-08-1,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-07-08},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-07-08/1}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-07-08/1},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 177666, document A-10-2025-0113, reference 2025/0158(NLE). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-07-08-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-07-08-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-07-08 (CC BY 4.0)}
}