Speaking at the final press conference of the participants in the summit, Mesic said both messages were very important in light of dilemmas which had appeared in the European Union in recent months.
Mesic said it was concluded at the summit that the launching of Croatia's EU entry negotiations was a positive and welcome signal testifying to the Union's readiness to continue with enlargement and round off the united Europe project.
He said support had also been given to the other countries of Southeast Europe in their European aspirations.
Mesic recalled that yesterday the summit discussed how to finish the European unification process, while today the participants focused on economic issues, debating whether the neoliberal model was the only framework within which to seek answers to the economic issues that contemporary Europe was facing.
Mesic said that his key conclusion, consciously provocative, was that the certain standstill in the realisation of the political project of European unification was to a considerable extent due to citizens' dissatisfaction with the consequences of the neoliberal economic model which they had started identifying with united Europe.
Mesic said that unbridled capitalism had become an end to itself which was developing solely for the purpose of capital and was losing support. He advocated finding strength to step out of the current model and admit that it was past its sell-by date.
Mesic expressed regret over the problems the citizens of Zagreb experienced yesterday and today due to security measures taken because of the summit, but said that "unfortunately, we live in a world where they are imperative for such events".
He announced the next summit of Central European presidents would be held in Bulgaria in 2006 and in the Czech Republic in 2007.