30.12.2025
“With Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of EUR 113 billion at yearend 2025 and with over 3% economic growth Bulgaria places among the top 5 European Union member states. Bulgaria ceased to be the poorest EU state a long time ago.” This is a statement of Prime Minister Rossen Jeliazkov at the opening of the cabinet’s last sitting in 2025. “In terms of purchasing power parity Bulgaria outpaces countries such as Greece, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Lithuania. And we must emphasize this as it inspires the satisfaction of every Bulgarian,” the Prime Minister pointed out.
In 2025 unemployment in Bulgaria went down by 0.6% over the preceding year while employment went up by 1.6%, Rossen Jeliazkov said and emphasized the record figure of BGN 10 billion revenue exceeding the figure of 2024. The Prime Minister stated that the country’s reported 3.6% inflation was to be attributed to the increased purchasing power and to the illumination of the economy and not to the adoption of the Euro.
“Although this government may seem political, in fact in 2025 it operated as a program-led government. We had a very clear program and very clear tasks for 2025: first of all, financial stability, resumption of the payments under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (RRP), improvement of the Bulgarian economy’s competitiveness and accession to the Eurozone. In short, all these commitments for 2025 have been met,” Rossen Jeliazkov pointed out.
The Prime Minister recalled that the cabinet successfully coped with six no-confidence votes. “It was difficult to form this cabinet in an intricate coalition where there were conceptual diversions on the country’s development but where there existed a strong consensus and a strong confidence among the partners in the coalition that received a very energetic parliamentary support,” Rossen Jeliazkov said and thanked for the support and for the good coalition relations over the past year.
The Prime Minister pointed out that the assessment of the cabinet’s performance should be made by “those who have an objective view not only of the political situation but also of what was achieved in 2025,” namely the partners and the businesses.
