MFAE and University of Rijeka sign agreement

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusić travelled to Rijeka today to sign an agreement on cooperation between the local university and the Foreign Ministry

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusić travelled to Rijeka today to sign an agreement on cooperation between the local university and the Foreign Ministry.

Pusić said on Tuesday that by the end of this week the government would try to agree on "some very radical moves" aimed at attracting investments, but she stopped short of specifying those steps, explaining that those proposals were still under discussion.

During her visit to Rijeka, Pusić announced such measures and explained that they would be outlined to the public after coalition partners reached agreement on them.

She recalled that a package of measures for 2016 included some new taxes and that she believed that all that would be pointless without "aggressive approach to increasing investments".

Pusić held a meeting with a group of potential investors in Croatia last week and she expected two more meetings of this kind soon.

At such meetings investors inform us about problems which companies willing to invest into Croatia encounter and we are establishing a closer cooperation, alongside appointing officials tasked with removing barriers which crop up due to slow reactions of the state administration, the foreign minister said.

Asked by the press about the performance of the cabinet of Prime Minister Zoran Milanović, in the first two and a half years of its term, Pusić said that she was satisfied with its performance as the government "very fairly started cleaning everything swept under the carpet, dealing with remaining debts, deficit, shipyards, state property and privatisation".

"The government's behaviour has been like that of someone who wants to bring order to their house and not of someone who is trying to take over one more term," she added.

She said that this government had made a historic thing for Croatia by putting it on Europe's energy map.

Our region has gained also an additional significance, Pusić said in this context.

Asked about the resumption of negotiations on introducing taxes on real estate, Pusić said that there were no negotiations on this matter" as during this term (of the incumbent government) there will be no real estate tax."

Pusić today travelled to Rijeka to sign an agreement on cooperation between the local university and the Foreign Ministry.

(Hina) 

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