Bulgaria’s Revival Party Challenges Eurozone Entry in EU Court

The Bul­gar­i­an polit­i­cal par­ty Revival filed a law­suit at the Euro­pean Union Court of Jus­tice chal­leng­ing Bul­gar­i­a’s acces­sion to the euro­zone while simul­ta­ne­ous­ly prepar­ing a major protest aimed at forc­ing the gov­ern­ment to resign this Sat­ur­day. On 25 Sep­tem­ber 2025, Novi­nite report­ed that Revival par­ty leader Kostadin Kostadi­nov sub­mit­ted the legal chal­lenge to the Court of Jus­tice of the Euro­pean Union in Lux­em­bourg, con­test­ing the legal­i­ty of Bul­gar­i­a’s deci­sion to join the euro cur­ren­cy. The arti­cle begins:

The Bul­gar­i­an polit­i­cal par­ty “Revival” has ini­ti­at­ed legal action in Lux­em­bourg, chal­leng­ing the coun­try’s acces­sion to the euro­zone. The law­suit, sub­mit­ted to the Court of Jus­tice of the Euro­pean Union, con­tests the legal­i­ty of Bul­gar­i­a’s deci­sion to join the euro, with par­ty leader Kostadin Kostadi­nov claim­ing that the coun­try does not meet the nec­es­sary cri­te­ria and that the rul­ing par­ty’s actions breach Euro­pean treaties. In par­al­lel, “Revival” is mobi­liz­ing a new protest, set for this Sat­ur­day, aimed at forc­ing the gov­ern­ment to resign. Kostadi­nov spoke to res­i­dents in Silis­tra, high­light­ing ten­sions between for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Boyko Borissov and influ­en­tial busi­ness­man and politi­cian Delyan Peev­s­ki as a cen­tral issue in the coun­try’s polit­i­cal landscape.

Read more: https://www.novinite.com/articles/234559/%27Reival%27+Takes+Eurozone+Battle+to+Luxembourg+Court%2C+Prepares+Major+Protest+in+Bulgaria

Revival (Bul­gar­i­an: Възраждане) is a far-right, ultra­na­tion­al­ist polit­i­cal par­ty in Bul­gar­ia, found­ed on 2 August 2014 and led by Kostadin Kostadi­nov. It blends nation­al con­ser­vatism, right-wing pop­ulism, and strong Euroscep­ti­cism, with a plat­form that oppos­es NATO mem­ber­ship, crit­i­cizes EU influ­ence, and fore­grounds cul­tur­al iden­ti­ty and sovereignty.

Key Points

• Revival par­ty leader Kostadin Kostadi­nov sub­mit­ted a law­suit to the Court of Jus­tice of the Euro­pean Union claim­ing Bul­gar­ia does not meet the nec­es­sary cri­te­ria for euro­zone accession.
• The legal chal­lenge con­tests that the rul­ing par­ty’s actions regard­ing euro adop­tion breach Euro­pean treaties and vio­late the legal­i­ty of Bul­gar­i­a’s deci­sion to join the cur­ren­cy union.
• Revival is orga­niz­ing a protest sched­uled for Sat­ur­day with the stat­ed goal of forc­ing the cur­rent Bul­gar­i­an gov­ern­ment to resign from power.
• Kostadi­nov raised the pos­si­bil­i­ty of new elec­tions occur­ring either by the end of this year or at the begin­ning of next year, stress­ing that high vot­er turnout is essen­tial to pre­vent cor­po­rate influ­ence from shap­ing Bul­gar­i­a’s future.

How the Global National Conservative Alliance Opposes EU Integration

The Glob­al Nation­al Con­ser­v­a­tive Alliance rep­re­sents a sig­nif­i­cant shift toward nation­al­ist and pro­tec­tion­ist agen­das unit­ed by oppo­si­tion to glob­al insti­tu­tions, par­tic­u­lar­ly the Euro­pean Union. The Her­itage Foun­da­tion con­vened a closed-door work­shop in March 2025 to dis­cuss pro­pos­als for dis­man­tling core EU insti­tu­tions, fea­tur­ing a paper by Hun­gar­i­an gov­ern­ment-backed MCC and Pol­ish group Ordo Iuris enti­tled “The Great Reset: Restor­ing Mem­ber State Sov­er­eign­ty in the 21st Cen­tu­ry.” The pro­pos­al claims the “EU is evolv­ing into a qua­si-fed­er­al state, lim­it­ing nation­al deci­sion-mak­ing pow­er” and advo­cates renam­ing it the Euro­pean Com­mu­ni­ty of Nations while elim­i­nat­ing the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion and Euro­pean Court of Jus­tice. Her­itage Foun­da­tion pres­i­dent Kevin Roberts has explic­it­ly called for Euro­peans to “reclaim sov­er­eign­ty” from Brus­sels, while the foun­da­tion holds pri­vate meet­ings with far-right Euro­pean politi­cians from Hun­gary and Czechia who oppose EU cli­mate policies.

Post-Brex­it Euroscep­ti­cism among GNCA mem­bers aims not at leav­ing the EU but at fun­da­men­tal­ly revers­ing Euro­pean inte­gra­tion, seek­ing to cur­tail the pow­ers of EU insti­tu­tions and return to an inter­gov­ern­men­tal­ly-orga­nized Europe engag­ing pri­mar­i­ly in eco­nom­ic coop­er­a­tion. The Patri­ots for Europe group, influ­enced by Vik­tor Orbán’s Fidesz and Marine Le Pen’s Nation­al Ral­ly, advo­cates for what Jean-Paul Gar­raud describes as “a return to what was there before Maastricht”—a Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Com­mu­ni­ty with very lim­it­ed pow­ers pri­or to the 1992 treaty that expand­ed EU com­pe­ten­cies. At CPAC Hun­gary 2023, Orbán pro­claimed Hun­gary had been “com­plete­ly healed” of “pro­gres­sive dom­i­nance” and urged activists to “take back the insti­tu­tions in Wash­ing­ton and Brus­sels,” pre­sent­ing Hun­gary’s “illib­er­al democ­ra­cy” mod­el as an alter­na­tive to the West­ern lib­er­al order.

Oppo­si­tion to EU inte­gra­tion man­i­fests through both insti­tu­tion­al obstruc­tion and ide­o­log­i­cal align­ment. Dutch far-right par­ty Forum for Democ­ra­cy has peti­tioned for end­ing EU sanc­tions on Rus­sia, argu­ing the EU “cre­at­ed an ener­gy cri­sis by uni­lat­er­al­ly clos­ing down one of its biggest gas pipelines” and call­ing for open­ing Nord Stream 2. The Euro­pean Con­ser­v­a­tives and Reformists Group, though pre­sent­ing itself with “Euro­re­al­ist” rhetoric, oppos­es what it terms a “Euro­pean super-state” and “auto­mat­ic deep­en­ing of EU polit­i­cal inte­gra­tion,” focus­ing on “preser­va­tion of nation­al iden­ti­ties” while crit­i­ciz­ing “over­ly ide­o­log­i­cal green cli­mate pol­i­cy.” Far-right par­ties now hold over a quar­ter of Euro­pean Par­lia­ment seats, enabling them to influ­ence the bal­ance of pow­er with­in the EU’s con­sen­sus-ori­ent­ed polit­i­cal sys­tem, with Hun­gary host­ing CPAC for the fourth con­sec­u­tive year in May 2025, brand­ed as “The Age of Patri­ots,” serv­ing as a key plat­form unit­ing transat­lantic oppo­si­tion to EU integration.

Exter­nal References:
• Stiftung Wis­senschaft und Poli­tik: The Creep­ing Inte­gra­tion of Far-right Par­ties in Europe
• Inter­na­tion­al Bar Asso­ci­a­tion: The year of elec­tions: The rise of Europe’s far right
• Groupe d’é­tudes géopoli­tiques: Spelling out the Euro­pean cen­ter-right’s dilemma

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