European Union officials, including the European Commission president, commissioners, and MEPs, can now look forward to significantly higher salaries.
The EU claims that the wage hikes are justified due to rising inflation in Belgium and Brussels. The inflation rate is automatically included into the salaries of EU officials. For Brussels, it currently stands at just over 7 percent.
According to the European Commission’s plans, EU officials will receive almost 7 percent more pay. The salary increase is to apply retroactively to July 1, reports Germany’s Bild newspaper.
In concrete terms, this means that Commission head Ursula von der Leyen (CDU) will receive around €2,000 more per month in the future, while an MEP will receive €623 more, and an EU commissioner can count on a salary increase of €1,460. The increase alone will account for an extra €98 million in spending for 2022.
78% of Bulgarian society is afraid of how they will manage financially in 2023.
This is clear from the data of the national representative survey on the economic attitudes among the adult population in our country.
77% of people limit their purchases of household goods because of increased prices, and 73% limit their purchases of clothing because they are worried about their financial situation. 56% of Bulgarian society buys less groceries because they are very expensive, 43% fear that they may lose their job.
76% of people are worried about paying their household bills in the upcoming winter season. 55% of Bulgarians expect the economic situation in the country to worsen.
According to 40% of the Bulgarian society, the biggest problems in Bulgaria are high prices, inflation and price shock.