/ world today news/ Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Simeon Dyankov from the “Borisov” cabinet is adamant that he would not accept an invitation to return to work in Bulgaria as a minister.
“It was very interesting to be deputy prime minister, but I am not going to repeat this experience in the next government or in any other. That is why I have never been a member of parties. Politics is not interesting to me,” he says in an extensive interview with the Russian in “Komsomolskaya Pravda”, quoted by Dnevnik.bg.
PIK recalls that for several months Simeon Dyankov has been the rector of the Russian School of Economics (RISH).
He also explains the dissatisfaction that poured out on him from his way of managing state finances: “The people are almost always dissatisfied with reforms. When reforms are made, at first they are very difficult to accept. Nowhere in the world do they like reformers. If in On the one hand, they treat the minister of finance well, so he is called a “populist”. But in 3-4 years, I would put the growth of the country’s infrastructure in the second place – the stabilization of the budget.”
Dyankov recalls that among the drastic savings he imposed was the order for all ministries to return 15% of their already determined annual budget, and then – that he reduced the number of people working in the budget sphere by 20%.
Dyankov believes that there will soon be a new wave of the crisis, because the main question of why the first crisis broke out has not been answered. According to him, the new wave will affect countries dependent on international bank lending such as India, Brazil, South Africa and will not affect countries with own capitals such as the Arab Emirates or Russia, where oil and gas continue to bring capital.
Asked why he did not stay in Bulgaria, Dyankov says that for three years his wife and their children lived with him, but then they returned to Washington, where his wife works. “That’s why I said to myself – when I finish working in Bulgaria, I’ll go back.”
Dyankov explains his choice to work as rector of RISH in a “narrow office, painted in barracks green and resembling the office of a party worker from the 1980s”, with the fact that he wants to make a strong economic school in Eastern Europe. “The quality of students here is completely different from that in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic or Poland. A good understanding of economics and finance requires students with deep knowledge of mathematics and information technology. There are many such children in Russia (…), and in Bulgaria, for example, strong graduates leave the country and go to the universities of Germany, Great Britain, Sweden…”
At the same time, he explains how he reformed higher education in Bulgaria by liquidating faculties and institutes at the BAS that did not offer education at a modern level.
In the interview with the newspaper, Simeon Dyankov admits that in Bulgaria the transition from a socialist economy “did not quite work out”.
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