Noting that he had drawn attention to the issue immediately after the deal had been concluded, Kajin said that the agreement was an attempt by Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to win Austria's support for Croatia's European Union membership bid.
Kajin described the agreement as a precedent with incalculable consequences, stressing that it might prompt a large number of foreign nationals to apply for property restitution.
Kajin also described as a dangerous diplomatic precedent a statement by Italian Foreign Ministry spokesman Pasquale Perraciano that Italy had signed no agreements with either Croatia or Slovenia on compensation for the property of Italian World War Two refugees and that the Osimo accords, which regulated this matter, had been signed with a country that no longer existed, alluding to Yugoslavia.