RIJEKA, Sept 1 (Hina) - A Croatian Social Liberal Party member of parliament has said that the government did not answer important questions regarding Croatia's application for EU membership, and that it is blaming the "Gotovina case"
for the slow pace of the country's admission to the EU.
RIJEKA, Sept 1 (Hina) - A Croatian Social Liberal Party member of
parliament has said that the government did not answer important
questions regarding Croatia's application for EU membership, and
that it is blaming the "Gotovina case" for the slow pace of the
country's admission to the EU. #L#
The government has been saying that solving the "Gotovina case" is
the precondition for Croatia's admission to the EU, but that is just
a trick to blame "Gotovina and his supporters" for obstructing
Croatia's efforts to join the EU, Darko Glavan told reporters in
Rijeka on Monday.
By doing so, the government has also been exerting pressure on the
judiciary, Glavan said, adding that it was a relevant court and not
the government that was authorised to hand Gotovina over to the
Hague war crimes tribunal, which has indicted him for war crimes.
The government should state why Croatia's admission to the EU has
been slowed down, Glavan said, claiming that the government had not
answered the EU's most important questions regarding admission.
Among those questions, Glavan mentioned the inefficiency of the
judiciary, the economic policy, i.e. the issuing of government
guarantees to private companies, an excessive foreign debt,
suppression of freedom of the media, and the unresolved issue of
property restitution.
Glavan requested Prime Minister Ivica Racan to "order, as he did in
the case of war veterans who were allocated flats," the publishing
of a list with the names of all persons who had taken part in the war
against Croatia but were given back their tenancy rights and
allowed to buy the publicly owned flats they had occupied before the
war.
(hina) rml sb