Any future handing out of money must be combined with drastic reforms in the budgetary sphere.
This is what Nikolay Vassilev, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, told the BNR, and expressed the opinion that if anyone's salary should be increased the most in the country, it is university professors, teachers, doctors and medical workers.
p>"The state spends too much and there are no reforms. ... Reforms are a terrible deficit, and in recent years we have observed chaos and populism", he emphasized and added that the economic condition of the country is still good, i.e. "we are moving forward and there is no recession".
According to Vassilev, due to the lack of political stability, Bulgaria is missing huge opportunities.
"In 2005, when I was in the government, we thought that in 2009 we would be in the Eurozone. Now I can't say whether we are closer to the Eurozone or not", he commented.
The former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy identified inflation as only the fourth factor delaying the adoption of the euro in Bulgaria:
"Thirdly, I put the big problem with the fact that we entered the gray list for financing international terrorism and money laundering. ... In second place is the problem of the deficit, which returns again like a boomerang. ... First of all, it is a political will, which was not expressed sincerely after the governments that brought Bulgaria into the EU, and since then it has been all grumpy, grumpy. ... Neither government did any information campaign. Only the voices of the people who speak untruths but are against the Eurozone are heard. Their voice is heard".
According to Nikolay Vassilev, there is a need for a huge reform in higher education:
"It is one of the weakest links in our society and the main cause of the demographic crisis. When young people go abroad to study, and maybe forever, that's the demographic crisis. There should be fewer universities, fewer places, the structure of majors should be different, meeting the needs of the labor market, fighting for more foreign students to fill our universities, and double wages for teachers. But not before elections, but during all subsequent budgets with reformist governments.