Bulgaria is threatening to block a progress agreement between Montenegro and the EU if its demands on using the Cyrillic spelling of the "euro" are not met.
Montenegro is set to sign a Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) - bringing it a step closer to the EU, on Monday (15 October) - during a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
But in the Bulgarian translation of Montenegro's SAA, the European currency would be written as "euro" (еуро) instead of "evro" (евро)...
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