ZAGREB, June 19 (Hina) - For six months, unemployment has been stagnating in Croatia, or even has been on a modest decline, and this cannot be ascribed only to the seasonal employment. This is modest positive progress, but proves that
the government's optimism is justified, Croatia's Prime Minister Ivica Racan told the Sabor on Tuesday morning while he answered MPs' questions during Question Time. Asked by a representative of the Social Democratic party (SDP) how come that the Ivica Racan Cabinet's economic results received better marks abroad than in Croatia, the PM said that sometime successes could be better observed from outside (abroad) whereas people in the country still felt problems and failures. In this context Racan said production was rising while unemployment was falling. January saw about 386,000 people on the dole, while in May 373,000 people were jobless, and this cannot be expl
ZAGREB, June 19 (Hina) - For six months, unemployment has been
stagnating in Croatia, or even has been on a modest decline, and
this cannot be ascribed only to the seasonal employment. This is
modest positive progress, but proves that the government's
optimism is justified, Croatia's Prime Minister Ivica Racan told
the Sabor on Tuesday morning while he answered MPs' questions
during Question Time.
Asked by a representative of the Social Democratic party (SDP) how
come that the Ivica Racan Cabinet's economic results received
better marks abroad than in Croatia, the PM said that sometime
successes could be better observed from outside (abroad) whereas
people in the country still felt problems and failures.
In this context Racan said production was rising while unemployment
was falling. January saw about 386,000 people on the dole, while in
May 373,000 people were jobless, and this cannot be explained only
as a result of the creation of seasonal jobs, given that there was no
seasonal employment in the first months of this year and it was then
when a rise in unemployment ceased, he explained.
Asked by a representative of the Croatian Christian Democratic
Union (HKDU) why the government was going to build yet another
monument to the Homeland, besides the existing one 'the Altar of the
Homeland' (on Mount Medvednica overlooking Zagreb), Racan said
that every city including Zagreb should have such a monument at
downtown site where citizens can pay tribute to Homeland.
Asked by a representative of the Istrian Democratic Assembly (IDS)
how a land stretch along the sea could become the property of hotel
companies like in the case with Rovinj-based Jadran Turist, a
Deputy Prime Minister, Slavko Linic, said the coastal stretch was
protected by Maritime Law, and the Government was almost everyday
defining what was a part of (national) coastal land.
The privatisation of companies has been carried out without land,
and if mistakes have occurred anywhere, they can be corrected,
Linic said.
He added that the coming discussion on a draft bill on privatisation
should clearly define which land should be protected and which land
is for the use of companies.
(hina) ms