ZAGREB ZAGREB, March 5 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic said Monday Croatia has to find ways to reach an non-inflatory growth of economy. Opening the "Entrepreneurs Day" with a discussion on the subject "Croatian Economy and
Integration Processes," Mesic advocated higher growth rates, but not as to jeopardise stabilisation. "We must find ways to reach a so-called non-inflatory growth of the economy in Croatia," Mesic said. He endorsed the government's policy in this sense, but also stressed the government should find a model for expediting growth, because this task has not been completed. Mesic added space must be found in arrangements with international financial institutions for intensifying the growth of the economy. Some 400 participants of the conference were also addressed by Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic who said that doubling the real GDP was an achievable goal in the next ten year
ZAGREB, March 5 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic said Monday
Croatia has to find ways to reach an non-inflatory growth of
economy.
Opening the "Entrepreneurs Day" with a discussion on the subject
"Croatian Economy and Integration Processes," Mesic advocated
higher growth rates, but not as to jeopardise stabilisation.
"We must find ways to reach a so-called non-inflatory growth of the
economy in Croatia," Mesic said. He endorsed the government's
policy in this sense, but also stressed the government should find a
model for expediting growth, because this task has not been
completed.
Mesic added space must be found in arrangements with international
financial institutions for intensifying the growth of the
economy.
Some 400 participants of the conference were also addressed by
Deputy Prime Minister Goran Granic who said that doubling the real
GDP was an achievable goal in the next ten years.
Croatia's chief negotiator in talks with the European Union on the
Agreement on Stabilisation and Association, Neven Mimica, said the
negotiations could be completed by May, the Agreement initialled at
the end of May and signed by October.
The negotiations are progressing well, more than three quarters,
that is, 80 percent of the agreement's text have been harmonised,
Mimica said. Three remaining issues are the dynamics and extent of
liberalisation of the Croatian market for goods being imported from
the EU, simplifying the procedure of acquiring the right to
ownership for EU citizens, and an agreement on the length of
transitional periods for the full implementation of certain
provisions of the agreement.
Mimica recalled the government recently assessed that all
activities should be intensified so Croatia could by the end of the
year 2006 be prepared for full membership in the EU, and most of the
work should be completed by 2004, when this government's mandate is
through.
"Croatia can best be led into the EU by its own activities and
determination in implementing the adjustment programmes,
notwithstanding the formal course of the expansion process within
the EU," Mimica stressed.
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