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Bulgaria receives third payment of EUR 1.47 billion under the Recovery and Resilience Plan

by AI | 31.Dec 2025 | Europe in brief AI

With this payment, the funds received during the year from the EC in Bulgaria amount in total to 1.9 billion euros

Flags are flying in front of the European Commission building. Photo: EU

SOFIA – Bulgaria has received a third payment of 1.47 billion euros under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), the Council of Ministers of the country announced. The payment was made after the European Commission (EC) assessed 48 out of a total of 50 milestones and targets included in the payment request as fulfilled.

The third payment request covers 22 reforms and 19 investments and is the largest submitted so far. The main measures reported with it are related to continuing reforms in areas such as research and innovation, decarbonization, public procurement, improving the governance framework for state-owned enterprises, development of e-government and e-healthcare, etc., the government press service added.

With this payment, the funds received from the EC during the year amount to a total of 1.9 billion euros, which exceeds more than half of the payments under the Plan.

In the first half of 2026, the fourth and fifth payments under the NRRP, worth nearly 2.5 billion euros, must be serviced, said Deputy Prime Minister and resigning Minister of Innovation and Growth Tomislav Donchev to the cabinet ministers. He added that the plan had been renegotiated, which made it possible for a large part of the reforms to be supported and implemented. The government also managed to negotiate the REPowerEU chapter worth an additional 480 million euros, noted the resigning Deputy Prime Minister. Donchev added that if the funds from cohesion policy disbursed during this year are also included, then the European funds invested in the Bulgarian economy amount to 8 billion leva. The Bulgarian Recovery and Resilience Plan amounts to 6.17 billion euros in grants. (29-30.12.2025)