“If you check in time, when we last fulfilled the inflation criterion – it was in September 2021. This is 2-3 months after the fall of the “Borisov 3” cabinet and the first of a number of caretaker governments – the most recent, when Asen Vasilev was the finance minister for the first time. Then such a policy was undertaken supposedly in the name of social welfare, equality, but prices rose sharply, some additional social benefits were given and, most importantly, large subsidies were given to absolutely undeserving large companies “Lukoil” type, for example. And then inflation shot up sharply and so far we are somewhere around 2.5 percentage points above what we should be,” said Dyankov.
Did Asen Vassilev’s politics push us?
“Definitely. That was the reason why we haven’t been (note line in the euro area). And that’s why recently, when we hear that this is part of disinformation, from external forces – just us, if we had fulfilled the criteria – we would be in the Eurozone. We haven’t done it. Let’s get together and do it. There is a serious political overtone here and for the future. I am convinced that if we manage to organize the next regular government relatively quickly and do not enter into a series of caretaker governments – this government has a great chance to go down in history as the government that entered both the Eurozone and the final Schengen. In this way, it will become a historic government. For me, this is an additional chance and a reason to create a regular government,” Simeon Dyankov was emphatic.
You can listen to the entire interview later on the air of Radio “Focus” and the program “Bulgaria, Europe and the world in focus” from 15:00.
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