A BRIEF LOOK AT CROATIAN PRESS ON MONDAY

ZAGREB, May 22 (Hina) - "Stronger Links with European Union" is the headline of a report on yesterday's talks between Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Dr. Otto von Habsburg, published on the front page of Zagreb-based daily VJESNIK. On the front page the daily carries a report of its Paris correspondent, Mirko Galic, about meetings between UN Secretary- General Ghali and the French government. The report is headlined "Perhaps NATO instead of UNPROFOR". VJESNIK cites excerpts from Croatian General Janko Bobetko's speech at the celebration to mark the third anniversary of liberation of the Dubrovnik coastal region. Commenting on the prospects of refugees who left western Slavonia Vladimir Hammer wrote an article headlined "They Want to Return to Croatia". Reporting about the latest session of the self-styled 'Krajina' assembly of Croatian rebel Serbs Mirko Sajler believes that even amid bitter recriminations Serb leaders from temporarily occupied Croatian areas "have the same idea, which has been brought about from the Belgrade scenario on setting up a Greater Serbia. Some other variants, such as the option for the peaceful reintegration of the captured areas into Croatian state, is out of question for them." The other daily VECERNJI LIST tries to probe into reasons why lease-holders are more successful than the public corporation oil- company 'INA' and follows what has happened after the corporation offered to rent about 30 patrol stations. VECERNJI LIST carries an interview with Croatian Labour and Social Welfare Minister Joso Skara. Commenting on the appointment of a new rebel Serb chief commander Mrksic, Frane Plancic, writes that "General Mile Mrksic is a citizen of Serbia and on the payroll list of the General Staff of the Army of Yugoslavia" and adds that this fact shows the continuation of Yugoslavia's (Serbia/Montenegro) aggression against Croatia. (hina) jn mms 221153 MET may 95