ZAGREB, May 11 (Hina) - Croatia's Deputy Economy Minister, Jasna Boric, on Tuesday held talks with North Rhine-Westphalia Minister of Economy, Transport and Technology, Peer Streinbrueck, on the economic cooperation and the
development of the utilities. At the Zagreb talks Boric informed a German delegation, led by this Minister, of the current economic situation in Croatia and its efforts to be included soon in Euro-Atlantic integration processes, read a statement released by Croatia's Economy Ministry. A Croatian-German business meeting is under way on the development of utilities, in line with a 1998 Memorandum on Economic Cooperation signed between Croatia and North Rhine-Westphalia. Minister Streinbrueck told Boric that Germany had recognised problems with which Croatia was faced as a country in transition. He added that the work had begun on models of financing projects in inf
ZAGREB, May 11 (Hina) - Croatia's Deputy Economy Minister, Jasna
Boric, on Tuesday held talks with North Rhine-Westphalia Minister
of Economy, Transport and Technology, Peer Streinbrueck, on the
economic cooperation and the development of the utilities.
At the Zagreb talks Boric informed a German delegation, led by this
Minister, of the current economic situation in Croatia and its
efforts to be included soon in Euro-Atlantic integration
processes, read a statement released by Croatia's Economy
Ministry.
A Croatian-German business meeting is under way on the development
of utilities, in line with a 1998 Memorandum on Economic
Cooperation signed between Croatia and North Rhine-Westphalia.
Minister Streinbrueck told Boric that Germany had recognised
problems with which Croatia was faced as a country in transition. He
added that the work had begun on models of financing projects in
infrastructure and public utilities in which businessmen of both
countries would find their interest.
An expert German-Croatian working group has chosen about ten
projects out of fifty proposed ones, which have the best prospects
of implementation.
The Croatian official described such cooperation as good.
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