ZAGREB, May 19 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic in an interview for the Croatian Television Thursday evening assessed that the Croatian Government in its first 100 days failed to completely implement announced changes. The
functioning of a law-based state, the decentralisation, the activation of economy is not efficient, President Mesic said during the interview. The Government should have recorded the situation in order to obtain the picture and activate the economy. The least has been done in that field, given that Croatia is in debt more than one would assume, and it did not receive new funds, Mesic said and added he would advocate the arrival of foreign investments to Croatia. Commenting on yesterday's decision of the Croatian Government on the increase of excise taxes on oil products, tobacco products, alcohol and automobiles, Mesic said that the Government must find funds, which is po
ZAGREB, May 19 (Hina) - Croatian President Stipe Mesic in an
interview for the Croatian Television Thursday evening assessed
that the Croatian Government in its first 100 days failed to
completely implement announced changes.
The functioning of a law-based state, the decentralisation, the
activation of economy is not efficient, President Mesic said during
the interview. The Government should have recorded the situation in
order to obtain the picture and activate the economy. The least has
been done in that field, given that Croatia is in debt more than one
would assume, and it did not receive new funds, Mesic said and added
he would advocate the arrival of foreign investments to Croatia.
Commenting on yesterday's decision of the Croatian Government on
the increase of excise taxes on oil products, tobacco products,
alcohol and automobiles, Mesic said that the Government must find
funds, which is possible by the implementation of the measures.
When asked to comment on announcements in line with which a law on
handling documents from the President's Office should be passed,
Mesic said that "tape recordings cannot become an archive which
will be opened after 50 years".
"Decisions which were made at the President's Office should not
have been made in there", President Mesic said, adding that all
materials pointing to the possibility of criminal activities would
be handed to authorised bodies.
President Mesic confirmed he would visit the United States in
August, and announced his visit to Italy and Vatican.
Mesic positively assessed his meeting with the French President,
particularly emphasising France's finical support to Croatia's
joining the World Trade Organisation.
The host of the Croatian Television programme 'Otvoreno', to whom
Mesic gave the interview, assessed that Croatia's political scene
was being radicalised, and that old ideological battles were being
conducted among certain groups. President Mesic said today
radicals cannot be tolerated.
Mesic said he was scheduled to meet with heads of the ruling Six on
Friday to discuss strategic issues as well as banalities which were
a burden to the public.
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