Finance Minister: No Falsified Data for Eurozone Entry, But Bulgaria Faces Excessive Deficit Challenge

Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Galab Donev rejected claims that Bulgaria had manipulated data in order to qualify for eurozone membership, telling lawmakers during a parliamentary question session that there had been no falsification of information, only what he described as “accounting tricks.” The remarks came during a blitz parliamentary oversight session attended by the government's four deputy prime ministers....