OSIJEK, Oct 18 (Hina) - The administrative management of the economy is on its way out, and the government's goal is the creation of conditions for a comprehensive economic development, vice-premier Goran Granic told reporters during
his visit to Croatia's eastern Osijek-Baranja County Wednesday. The government will deal with solutions which will assist good projects, but the time when the government gave guarantees for certain programmes has passed. Everybody deserves an equal chance, Granic said. He recalled the government budget was financing revival after war with ten to 12 billion kuna (US$1.16 billion to US$1.4 billion) which are used to finance, among other things, social programmes for homeland defence war soldiers. He added an increase in the budget could not be expected in the next three years. The way out of the economic crisis is not to set aside budgetary funds for the economy, but to create investm
OSIJEK, Oct 18 (Hina) - The administrative management of the
economy is on its way out, and the government's goal is the creation
of conditions for a comprehensive economic development, vice-
premier Goran Granic told reporters during his visit to Croatia's
eastern Osijek-Baranja County Wednesday.
The government will deal with solutions which will assist good
projects, but the time when the government gave guarantees for
certain programmes has passed. Everybody deserves an equal chance,
Granic said.
He recalled the government budget was financing revival after war
with ten to 12 billion kuna (US$1.16 billion to US$1.4 billion)
which are used to finance, among other things, social programmes
for homeland defence war soldiers. He added an increase in the
budget could not be expected in the next three years.
The way out of the economic crisis is not to set aside budgetary
funds for the economy, but to create investment conditions.
Foreign investors will see their interest in investing only if the
state is stable and if the state of law is functioning fully.
Asked how much damage had been brought on Croatia in the past month
with regards to events on the political scene, Granic said this was
difficult to assess.
Foreign partners are wondering what is happening in Croatia, and
our "auto-goals" must cease, he asserted.
The question relates to events following the apprehension of a
dozen persons, among whom were participants of Croatia's 1991 war
of independence, under the suspicion of having had committed war
crimes and other crimes: the establishment of centres for the
defence of the dignity of the Homeland Defence War, accusations of
for a negative attitude towards the war of independence and its
soldiers thrown at the government by Croatian army generals, the
retirement of generals, etc.
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