European Union Metro Station

European Union Европейски съюз
General information
Location	1421 Lozenets, Sofia
Coordinates	42°40′46.43″N 23°19′17.56″E / 42.6795639°N 23.3215444°E / 42.6795639; 23.3215444
Owned by	Sofia Municipality
Operated by	Metropoliten JSC
Platforms	island
Tracks	2
Bus routes	4
Connections
	7
	94, 102, X9, N2
Construction
Structure type	sub-surface
Platform levels	2
Parking	no
Bicycle facilities	yes
Accessible	Yes
Architect	Elena and Farid Paktiawal
Other information
Status	Staffed
Station code	2979; 2980
Website	Official website
History
Opened	31 August 2012 (2012-08-31)
Passengers
2020	170,000
Services
Preceding station Sofia Metro Following station James Bourchier towards Vitosha M2 line NDK towards Obelya
Location

v t e M2 and M4 lines
All stations are wheelchair accessible
Legend
Obelya Lomsko shose cont. as 2 Pancho Vladigerov (under construction) cont. as 4 1 Slivnitsa Beli Dunav Lyulin Nadezhda Zapaden Park Han Kubrat Vardar Knyaginya Maria Luiza Konstantin Velichkov Central Railway Opalchenska Lavov most ↖Serdika↘ ↙Serdika II↗ 3NDK SU St. Kliment Ohridski3 European Union Vasil Levski Stadium James Bourchier Joliot-Curie Vitosha G.M.Dimitrov 2 To Dragalevtsi Musagenitsa Mladost 1 1 To Business park Mladost 3 Inter Expo Center – Tsarigradsko shose Druzhba Iskarsko shose Sofiyska Sveta gora Sofia Airport Station names in italics are not confirmed.
Detailed track map Line end -8' Vitosha   ↑Opened 2016↑ -6' James Bourchier -4' European Union built 1981 opened 2012 Perlovska -2' NDK built 1981 opened 2012 NDK II 3   Serdika 1 and 4 0' Serdika II Vladayska 2' Lavov most 3' Central Railway Station 5' Knyaginya Maria Luiza BDŽ National Rail to Pernik-Kulata/Kyustendil BDŽ National Rail to Dragoman/Radomir/Bankya 00' Future extension 00' M5 Ilyantsi branch Lev Tolstoy Svoboda Iliyansko shose Ilyantsi Ilyantsi branch end 7' Han Kubrat Suhodolska 9' Nadezhda 11' Beli Dunav 13' Lomsko shose ↑Opened 2012↑   15' Obelya Kakach Pancho Vladigerov (under construction) National Rail to Dragoman/Radomir/Bankya   ↑Opened 2003↑ RED line to Depot   ↓Opened 1998↓ -13' Slivnitsa -11' Lyulin -8' Zapaden Park Suhodolska National Rail to Pernik-Kulata/Kyustendil -6' Vardar -4' Konstantin Velichkov   ↓Opened 1999↓ Vladayska -2' Opalchenska   ↓Opened 2000↓ 0' Serdika Serdika II 2   ↓Opened 2009↓ 3' Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski Orlov Most 3 Perlovska 5' Vasil Levski Stadium 8' Joliot-Curie WTC Novachitsa 10' G.M.Dimitrov 12' Musagenitsa Darvenishka 14' Mladost 1 00' 1 to Business Park   ↓Opened 2015↓   16' Aleksandar Malinov 18' Akademik Aleksandar Teodorov - Balan Banishka 20' Business Park Sofia Mladost branch end 00'   ↓Opened 2012↓   16' Mladost 3 18' Inter Expo Center – Tsarigradsko shose   ↓Opened 2015↓ 20' Druzhba 23' Iskarsko shose National Rail to Ihtiman/Karlovo 25' Sofiyska Sveta gora 27' Sofia Airport Terminal 2 Airport branch end

European Union Metro Station (Bulgarian: Метростанция „Европейски съюз“; Metrostantsiya „Evropeyski sayuz“) is a station on the Sofia Metro in Bulgaria. It opened on 31 August 2012. Bulgaria's PM Boyko Borisov and the President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso inaugurated the new section of the Sofia Metro, which was funded with EU money. Barroso expressed his delight that the metro station was named after the European Union.^[1][2]