More polite or more direct explain? More polite - things are not moving at the speed they should. More directly - we haven't done our job - so we won't get any more money. He explained this in an interview for “Face to Face” the former official deputy prime minister, who was responsible for the funds under the European funds - Atanas Pekanov.
Because of this - Bulgaria may lose 8 billion under the Recovery and Sustainability Plan (RPP) until 2026. “It is like in football - and there we do not get the results we want, that is why I have to support Austria, Bulgaria no”, he drew a parallel with the European Football Championship.
“Parliament has not done its job on 4 things: The law for the protection of complainants, those who file complaints about corruption is one of them. The new task before the parliament is to adopt it in a formula in which it responds. Raya Nazaryan is a legally competent person and will organize this. The second is the Personal Bankruptcy Act. Also, with coal plants - a card for climate neutrality. The reform of Lena Borislavova's KPCONPI has not yet fully happened, Pekanov summarized.
He is adamant that, unlike Austria and the Netherlands, Bulgaria cannot afford to lose this funding.
“Austria, not receiving money, built its subway 50 years ago, it will not be a problem. The Netherlands will not ask for money, a new government came, it said that it will not do the pension reform. But for us they are important and necessities. It seems completely real that we will lose huge sums, there are still two years,”, Pekanov warns.
On the occasion of the exchange of levs with euros, he said: “The convergence report of the ECB will be released tomorrow, it will be negative because we do not meet the inflation criterion. Next year, we will not enter the Eurozone.