KHIP said in a statement that Wednesday's decision of the GSV to appoint the president of the T-HT telecommunications company's management board, Ivica Mudrinic, president of the national tripartite body was "yet another precedent which shows that the Croatian model of social dialogue is getting further away from European practice".
KHIP criticised the Croatian Employers' Association for obstructing its admission to the GSV, adding that Croatia was the only European country where an association representing less than one percent of economic subjects was a partner to unions and the government.
When such an association gives the main role in the social dialogue to a representative of a multinational company, that proves lack of care for the real interests of the economy and confirms Croatia's status of a colony, KHIP said.
It added that Croatia was the only European country where the social dialogue does not include important interest groups and civil society organisations advocating the interests of crafts people, farmers, consumers, tax payers, the unemployed, pensioners, environmental organisations, etc.
KHIP said that the responsibility for this situation lay with the government and its representative in the GSV, Jadranka Kosor.
KHIP demanded that the government urgently adjust the model of social dialogue and the structure of the GSV to the EU practice.