The disappearance of 500-euro notes and the creation of bitcoin have led money laundering networks to pay drug traffickers in ...

More than 350 million people in 21 countries already use the euro, which has been in circulation for over 20 years. Bulgaria ...

Handwritten notes on 5-euro bills from a 2021 Spanish drug raid exposed a crypto money laundering network linking Spain, ...

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Europe, or at least its northern bit, is the land that cash forgot. In Norway and Sweden coins and notes are vanishing into ...

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The euro, the official currency of 21 out of the 27 EU member states, turns 27 on New Year’s Day. The euro came into effect on Jan. 1, 1999, and it began to be used daily after a three-year transition ...

The European Central Bank will visually mark Bulgaria’s entry into the eurozone with a special light installation on the southern facade of its headquarters in Frankfurt, located along the Main River, ...

On January 1, 2026, Bulgaria will bid farewell to its lev currency and become the 21st European nation to adopt the euro. The Balkan country of 6.7 million people has been a European Union (EU) member ...

Bulgaria’s Cabinet agreed on November 19 that December 31 2025 and January 2 2026 will be public holidays, as a one-off event, necessary in connection with the need for technological changes that must ...