BONN BONN, June 15 (Hina) - Although it still has not institutionalised its relations with the European Union, Croatia is making efforts to draw closer to European integration courses as soon as possible, however, it also expects its
efforts to be assessed objectively, Croatia's European Integration Minister Ljerka Mintas-Hodak said in Bonn on Tuesday. According to a statement from the Croatian Embassy in Bonn, Mintas-Hodak was visiting the Centre for European Integration Studies (ZEI), where she held a speech about the measures Croatia was taking with the aim of accessing European integration processes. Although its relations with the EU are not even in the first admission stage, Croatia expects to establish real partner-like relations with the EU, because it is making "more efforts than many other countries which are already undergoing the process of admission into European integration institutions", Minta
BONN, June 15 (Hina) - Although it still has not institutionalised
its relations with the European Union, Croatia is making efforts to
draw closer to European integration courses as soon as possible,
however, it also expects its efforts to be assessed objectively,
Croatia's European Integration Minister Ljerka Mintas-Hodak said
in Bonn on Tuesday.
According to a statement from the Croatian Embassy in Bonn, Mintas-
Hodak was visiting the Centre for European Integration Studies
(ZEI), where she held a speech about the measures Croatia was taking
with the aim of accessing European integration processes.
Although its relations with the EU are not even in the first
admission stage, Croatia expects to establish real partner-like
relations with the EU, because it is making "more efforts than many
other countries which are already undergoing the process of
admission into European integration institutions", Mintas-Hodak
said.
At the end of her speech, Mintas-Hodak reminded that Croatia was an
initiator of stabilisation processes in the region and was willing
to keep up its constructive role.
During the visit to Bonn, an agreement on cooperation between the
ZEI and the Croatian Government's Office for European Integration
was signed. Mintas-Hodak also held talks with the head of the
Bundestag delegation for Croatia, Georg Pfannenstein, and members
of other parliamentary delegations.
(hina) rml