{"id":219558,"date":"2026-01-04T07:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/219558\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T07:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T07:03:16","slug":"greece-congratulates-bulgaria-on-joining-the-eurozone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/219558\/","title":{"rendered":"Greece congratulates Bulgaria on joining the eurozone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP_bulgaria_eurozone-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Greece congratulates Bulgaria on joining the eurozone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/AP_bulgaria_eurozone-960x600.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>  A girl poses as she holds new euro coins with Bulgarian symbols in Sofia, Tuesday Dec. 30, 2025. [Valentina Petrova\/AP]&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>New Eurogroup President and Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis congratulated Bulgaria on its eurozone integration as of January 1.<\/p>\n<p>He said Bulgaria\u2019s integration in the eurozone \u201cstrengthens our common currency and the shared economic foundation of the Union at a very decisive moment for Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bulgaria joined the euro currency union on January 1, achieving a decades-old goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A girl poses as she holds new euro coins with Bulgarian symbols in Sofia, Tuesday Dec. 30, 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[17667,114,184,10272,85,46],"class_list":{"0":"post-219558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-bulgaria","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-euro","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-israel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}