A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON WEDNESDAY

ZAGREB, Jan 31 (Hina) - 'Parliament Adopts State Budget' reads a headline on the front page of the Croatian daily 'VJESNIK'. Today's commentary piece by Maja Freundlich is headlined 'Post-War Period'. 'If Croatia develops, we too will be personally and individually richer. Only thieves can hope for quick money. Those who do not want to become thieves have to admit that now, only after military victories have been achieved, conditions for the development of private capital and regular market, are beginning to be created', Freundlich says. The main piece of news in another Croatian daily, 'VECERNJI LIST', is again 'the adoption of the first development budget'. 'European Price of Normalisation' reads the headline of a commentary piece by Visnja Staresina who writes about the fact that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is not an internationally recognized state. 'When we compare conditions Croatia had to meet in order to gain international recognition to those which are now placed before the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, it becomes obvious that standards are not the same. However, despite this partial departure from earlier principles, things are beginning to come into their own place: Serbia is much smaller than it had been planned and its president has become much more 'European-like' and tamer', Staresina writes. The paper also brings an interview with Bozo Raic, president of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) branch in Bosnia- Herzegovina. (hina) rm jn 311136 MET jan 96