Addressing a press conference in the eastern city of Osijek, Matijasevic said that the foreign trade deficit in the first 100 days of the new government was 7.6 billion kuna (1 billion euros), which indicated that the negative trends of the three-year-long recession continued. He also cited imports of agricultural and food products of dubious quality.
Matijasevic expressed concern about an erosion of the industrial sector and job losses in the real sector. He said that the building sector continued to decline, while the public administration had 26,000 employees more than the building sector.
The HUS leader said that most ministers behaved as if it was the pre-election time, making promises wherever they went.