ZAGREB, July 22 (Hina) - Positive developments on Croatia's political and security front which overshadowed negative trends on the economic and social front have led to a mild increase in Croatia's LEGSI index, which stands at 60 for
June, one point more than the previous month.
ZAGREB, July 22 (Hina) - Positive developments on Croatia's
political and security front which overshadowed negative trends on
the economic and social front have led to a mild increase in
Croatia's LEGSI index, which stands at 60 for June, one point more
than the previous month. #L#
In their latest report, which the Croatian Employers' Association
released on Tuesday, analysts of the U.S. consulting company
Euroasia Group and the Lehman Brothers investment bank positively
assessed Croatian President Stjepan Mesic's initiative for
speeding up the solving of the case of fugitive Hague war crimes
tribunal indictee Ante Gotovina.
The also positively assessed the opening of highway sections
connecting the Adriatic and the mainland. The fact that European
Commission President Romano Prodi personally handed the EU
questionnaire to Croatian PM Ivica Racan was interpreted as support
to Croatia to join the EU as soon as possible.
The report negatively assessed the hooliganism of Croatian sports
fans at the European waterpolo championship. The report, however,
noted that the government had forwarded into an emergency
parliamentary procedure a law which should regulate such and
similar problems. Also noted in a negative context was the
exclusion of a Croatian Serb boy from a sports tournament because of
his ethnic background.
The Lehamn Brothers' analysts negatively assessed an increase in
foreign indebtedness.
With 60 points of the Lehman Brothers Eurasia Group Stability Index
(LEGSI), Croatia is ranked 10th among the monitored
countries. Preceding it are Hungary, Poland, Mexico, Bulgaria,
Thailand, South Africa, China, Brazil, and Russia. Behind Croatia
on the list are the Philippines, India, Turkey, Argentina, Saudi
Arabia, Ukraine, Colombia, Venezuela, Indonesia, Uzbekistan,
Azerbaijan, and Nigeria.
LEGSI gauges the political stability of countries in transition and
other countries throughout the world, namely their potential
and resistance to internal crises. The index considers the
political and economic movements of governments and their image
in the domestic and international public, and the most important
social, security and economy events in the observed period.
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