BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3160 HINA ZAGREB, JANUARY 28

HR-EUROPEAN INTEGRATIONS BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3160 HINA ZAGREB, JANUARY 28 CROATIAN GOVERNMENT DISCUSSES EUROPEAN INTEGRATIONSZAGREB, Jan 28 (Hina) - The Croatian Government on Thursday discussed and adopted a report on the work of the Office for European Integrations for last year and a working programme for 1999. Minister for European Integrations, Ljerka Mintas-Hodak stressed in the report the main task of the office in this year would be to educate young experts and state officials in European associations, information and harmonisation of Croatian laws with European legislature. "Since the very start of creation, the Croatian state has been orientated towards European association," Mintas-Hodak said. She said criticism from abroad and in Croatia that the Government was wrongly orientated and was drawing Croatia further away from European associations was inaccurate. She recalled that in December of 1990, Croatia adopted a decree on adjusting Croatian legislature to E