"It will all depend on us and when we adopt the standards and meet the required criteria rather than on what this or that EU official says," Mesic told reporters during his visit to Prelog in the northwestern County of Medjimurje on Wednesday.
"It is all up to us, and I hope that we will meet the criteria even before (2010)," the President said in a comment on Tuesday's statement by EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn that Croatia could not expect to be admitted to the bloc as a full member before 2010.