"It is up to us to find appropriate ways of preventing the sale and that is one of the priorities," the PM told Miroslav Rozic of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) during question time in parliament.
Under the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the EU and existing laws, foreigners can purchase real estate in Croatia based on the concept of reciprocity, the PM said.
In late October, parliament will discuss a bill on the setting up of a pensioners fund, Deputy PM Andrija Hebrang said.
He stressed that stocks of valuable companies will be earmarked for the fund, thus dismissing doubts by Damir Kajin of the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS) that pensioners would be given worthless stocks.
Stressing that pensions have recently increased four percent, Finance Minister Ivan Suker dismissed claims by Davorko Vidovic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) that the new stand-by deal with the International Monetary Fund sent a message to pensioners that pensions would not be increased.
Suker dismissed Vidovic's criticism that by signing the new stand-by arrangement the government chose the policy of declining standards. Suker said Vidovic was a minister in the Ivica Racan cabinet which incurred debts worth US$2 billion in only two years.