What Milanovic is doing is flippant. Croatia can come under fire from the European Commission and remain without European Union funding, the opposition leader told reporters, wondering who would be to blame then and if Milanovic would resign in that case.
The possible withholding of European funding would be disastrous for Croatia in this situation, Karamarko said, doubting that the government had prepared the projects which would in that case be rejected.
The Commission is right in saying that the government is covering up crimes, Karamarko said, adding that he did not know if the government was doing it consciously or unconsciously.
He sees Milanovic's opposition to the extradition to Germany of Croatian citizen Josip Perkovic, a Yugoslav-era secret agent believed to have masterminded the assassination of a Croat dissident in Bavaria in 1983, as the tip of the iceberg.
Such a turn of events does not suit the government because it would reveal the chain of command under which Croatian emigrants were killed abroad, he said.
Karamarko said the HDZ supported constitutional changes if that meant dealing with all crimes, because the party was for punishing all crimes, fascist and totalitarian ones.