"Weed out the professions of the future and inform children from now on," he recommended
"Bulgaria has introduced the euro a long time ago, our lev has a fixed exchange rate. We do not expect price rises after our country's admission to the euro zone". This was stated by the President of the Board of BIA Dobri Mitrev in an interview for NOVA NEWS.
He focused on the advantages of our inclusion in the euro area - joining one of the most stable currencies, saving costs in currency conversion. Mitrev pointed to high inflation as an obstacle to our recent admission to the eurozone. He gave the example of Croatia, which after joining the eurozone and Schengen, has an inflation rate of 0.2%. "At the end of last year, the average inflation in the eurozone was 2.9% and in Bulgaria it was 4.7%," the President of BIA explained.
Mitrev highlighted Bulgaria's membership in the Schengen area by air and water as a breakthrough. "This happened during a big migrant wave, tensions in Austria itself, the Netherlands was a serious opponent of Bulgaria's and Romania's Schengen membership. Our country's economic losses continue because very few goods are transported by air and water," the business representative explained.
Regarding the idea of retaliatory actions against Austrian companies in Bulgaria, he said that Austria's business is entirely on the Bulgarian side. "The issue is political, the politicians make the decisions," Mitrev said.
To sift out the professions of the future and from now on children should be informed, the BIA President recommended about the penetration of artificial intelligence. "There is no need to reduce the number of students, but to have students in majors that will be in demand in the labour market in the next 10-20 years," he explained the changes related to self-learning programmes.
"AI will not take the place of a miner, a metallurgist, an elevator technician; it will take the jobs of the middle-skilled, the white-collar workers. We have to think how to use this human resource that has the possibility of being freed up because of the availability of new technologies. We have to find the balance between technology and human dignity," Mitrev said. He cited the comparison of the penetration of artificial intelligence with the discovery of fire by primitive man. "There is hardly a person who knows what awaits us in 3-4 or 10 years," Mitrev added.
