"Everything that will have to be done this year does not only have political but also ethical value," editor-in-chief Ivan Miklenic said in the editorial of the weekly's latest issue.
Miklenic maintains that the authorities at all levels share responsibility for unemployment and for attempts to address that problem. "It is not true, and some are trying to peddle that idea, that the state must not interfere with economic issues and relations," Miklenic said, adding that the authorities were obliged to help develop production branches with comparative advantages.
"All social factors and the public have a duty to closely watch politicians' moves, particularly negotiations with the EU which must be transparent," it is noted in the commentary.
Croatia faces a very difficult test of defending the truth about the aggression it was subjected to and its war of defence, not only before the Hague war crimes tribunal, but also before the international community.
"The Hague trial will draw the attention of the international public to the events in Croatia from 1991 to 1995 and it is high time for Croatia to find the strength and ability and be efficient in popularising the objective truth about the war," Miklenic said.
He also claimed that Croatian diplomats had failed on that front and that Serbian propaganda was creating growing anti-Croat sentiments on the international scene.
"It is surprising that Croatian diplomats kept silent while the world media spoke about the arrest of the alleged 'war criminal' Ante Gotovina," the author says, wondering why Croatia was paying its diplomats dearly if they were not protecting its objective and legitimate interests.