The PM said that regardless of the results of this year's elections, no government would be able to look at entrepreneurship and people working in that sector as those who skate along the edge of the law, because they are creating new values and new jobs.
Croatia's economy cannot be compared to large European economies, but it can look for something that is typical for Croatia and by which it can compete in the globalisation race and that is the society and the economy of knowledge.
The PM also commented on macroeconomic indicators, stressing that a positive trend in the industrial production and tourism growth, as well as a drop in the unemployment rate in 2006 when the economic growth rate amounted to 4.8 percent, continued in the first three months of this year.
Sanader also commented on what membership of the European Union and NATO meant for the Croatian economy, stressing that it had an absolutely positive effect not only on the economy but also on the situation in the region, and its prospects and opportunities.
Membership of NATO and the EU suggests to any investor that this is a stable country with European standards, Sanader said.
He said that joining the European Union and NATO was an opportunity for Croatia to catch up with countries it wanted and could to compete with.
"The (EU membership) negotiations are proceeding well and they could go even faster, but this is not up to us. I would like to thank all parties on cooperation and democratic maturity which they showed in the past, because regardless on the differences in views, all parties show maturity in this issues of national interest that are above party policies," the PM said.