Inflation in Bulgaria is 2.6%. We have fulfilled the criteria for entering the eurozone - according to the European procedure, if you are below 3% - you enter. And when the data comes out in February, you will see that we are among the three countries in the EU with the lowest inflation. This was stated to bTV by the former Finance Minister and current MP from the PP-DB, Asen Vassilev, quoted by novini.bg
"The draft budgets in recent years have always had a higher deficit than 3%. With my team, we managed to realize a smaller deficit in order to meet the criteria."
With the "wasteful" budgets of Asen Vassilev, we were in surplus, and now we will be in deficit, how come, he asked and quoted:
"January 2021 - 400 million leva surplus, January 2022 - 940 million leva, January 2023 - 470 million leva, January 2024 - 400 million leva. How come we will be in deficit now, when there is even a tax increase?"
If we do not request a convergence report for entering the eurozone, this will be extremely detrimental to Bulgarian business and Bulgarian citizens, warned the former Finance Minister.
"The currency board, which provides security, can be abolished with 121 votes. Knowing what kind of parliaments we have, consider what can be done. If we are in the eurozone, there is no way to organize "something like 1996-1997", said Vassilev.
There is artillery preparation to return to lean pizza budgets, added Vassilev.
And he commented that the inflation for January will be released on February 15 and expects the new governing coalition to submit a budget that is consistent with it.
"We are growing and catching up significantly faster than the EU countries and Moody's says that this is due to the growth in incomes," said Assen Vassilev about the latest credit rating.