KARLOVAC/DJAKOVO, Nov 15 (Hina) - The EU is Croatia's future, but to be ready for it Croatia has to "revitalise factories, employ workers, and then all our war veterans, pensioners, invalids, children, mothers and all other will have
enough of everything," Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) leader Zlatko Tomcic said on Saturday.
KARLOVAC/DJAKOVO, Nov 15 (Hina) - The EU is Croatia's future, but to
be ready for it Croatia has to "revitalise factories, employ
workers, and then all our war veterans, pensioners, invalids,
children, mothers and all other will have enough of everything,"
Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) leader Zlatko Tomcic said on Saturday.
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Addressing the main HSS pre-election rally in Karlovac, Tomcic said
his party was ready to take on responsibility after the Nov. 23
parliamentary election to define the direction and intensity of
Croatia's moving towards full democracy, a prosperous economy, and
the European Union.
Tomcic said it was necessary to step up economic growth at a rate of
8-9 percent, eliminate excessive and corrupt red tape and VAT as
well as the non-functioning legal system. The HSS can eliminate
those obstacles, which is necessary for Croatia to compete with
Western European economies and democracies, he added.
Croatia must be governed responsibly, with a clear national,
social, and demographic policy, Tomcic concluded.
The HSS Minister of Crafts, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise,
Zeljko Pecek, told a pre-election rally for constituency no. 4 in
Djakovo the party could open about 150,000 new jobs in this field
over the next four years. The HSS has programmes to achieve that but
other parties steal them, he added.
The HSS offers work instead of promises since only work can bring
Croatia a better future, said Pavo Sarcevic, the fourth on the HSS
slate for constituency no. 4.
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