Racan said that the talks focused on Croatia's EU entry and cooperation with the Socialist Group in the European Parliament.
Martin Schultz, president of the Socialist Group, said that the Group cooperated with the SDP because Croatia's pro-European orientation had started at the time of the former government, led by Ivica Racan.
Asked what the European Socialists planned to do with regard to the ever-increasing wishes to slow down EU enlargement until the completion of the necessary reforms in candidate-countries and those aspiring to join the EU, Schultz said that the Socialists did not want to slow down the process, but that reforms were necessary in aspiring countries as well as in the EU.
Such reforms must be effective, he said, adding that the public was aware that they were not effective and therefore did not accept them.
Hannes Swoboda, the European Parliament's rapporteur on Croatia and vice-president of the European Socialist Group, said that the Socialists had kept on hold for three months a report by the European People's Party asking that all candidate countries join the EU together, while the Socialists wanted each country to join the EU on the basis of individual achievements and relevant reforms.