In an interview with Sarajevo's Oslobodjenje daily of Friday, Kacin said it was indeed possible in the current circumstances for the Slovenian parliament not to ratify Croatia's EU accession treaty by July 1.
"That's possible. All the responsible players in this story are against that but events could overtake us," he was quoted as saying, hopeful "that the Croatian government will finally start talking the same language and make the necessary moves" if it wants the Slovenian parliament to ratify the treaty.
Kacin said it was not necessary to find a solution to the bank issue within 30 days but that it was necessary to agree on mutually acceptable principles and mechanisms of solving it.
He said the right approach would be to adopt a "mature" political decision whereby the entire problem would be returned to the level of "technical negotiations" and to withdraw the Croatian government's power of attorney to Croatia's Privredna and Zagrebacka banks for lawsuits filed against Slovenia's now-defunct Ljubljanska Banka.
"It's the Croatian government's move," Kacin said, adding that so far it had tried to solve the bank issue "by force."
"The scenario in which Croatia misses the formal accession to the EU on July 1 would be very bad, for enlargement, for the political and economic climate in Croatia, as well as for the pace of reforms in other Western Balkan countries which are drawing closer to the EU," Kacin said, adding that this was an "unnecessary poker game" in the Western Balkans.