The Cabinet Office should request the convergence report on joining the euro. This is what the former Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and co-chairman of “We continue the change” Asen Vassilev thinks before BNT.
According to him, the report will come out at the end of June and while they are writing it, there will be time to adopt the three laws that have not been adopted. As for the other criteria – we do not fulfill only the inflation criterion. According to Vasilev, inflation is starting to decrease.
“What they can write – you don’t fulfill three laws and the inflation criterion. Let’s not give up on this goal and fulfill it – it’s quite normal to happen,” he said.
According to him, the measures taken while he was a minister did not raise inflation, and this is claimed by people who “studied one semester of economics”.
When asked if he raised the salaries of the teachers, whom he reminded that years ago they were poor and that they walked around with torn tights, he said:
“I didn’t remind the teachers of this, I reminded the politicians who, with the extended budget law, refused to vote on our proposal to keep salaries at 125% of the average salary and froze the teachers’ income. I want to apologize to the teachers if they felt affected, but the truth is that for too long Bulgarian education and Bulgarian teachers were the last priority of this country when they were left on minimum wages,” he said.
“The truth is that if we don’t take care of the teachers, there will be no workforce in the future and that will really bankrupt the state,” he added.
He defined as “the most cynical” the statement that during the management of the “Petkov” cabinet, the migrant channels were reopened.
