Minister Jandroković commended the setting up of said specific-themed panel, pointing out its importance for further linking and cooperation advancement with the Croatian entrepreneurs abroad
Minister Jandroković commended the setting up of said specific-themed panel, pointing out its importance for further linking and cooperation advancement with the Croatian entrepreneurs abroad. He said that in the previous two decades the perception of the relations with the Croatian diaspora and doing business in Croatia had gone through three stages. In the beginning, expectations towards doing business with the diaspora and its investment were overly optimistic. That gave way to a period of pessimism, while today mutual expectations and the relationship between Croatia and the Croatian diaspora have been taken down to a realistic level, with objectively estimated investment possibilities.
In that regard, Minister Jandroković said that today Croatia offered excellent business opportunities and a tidy legal framework, pointing out as additional advantages its pending EU membership and excellent geopolitical position. Though noting that the same rules applied to the Croatian investors abroad as to everybody else, he said that what set them apart – their patriotism, familiarity with the Croatian language and mentality, as well as the emotional, friendship and family ties in Croatia – gave them a certain advantage, and so their investments are expected to increase.
Regarding the issue of relationship with the Croatian diaspora, he said that the Croatian government had adopted the Strategy on Croatia’s Relations with Croats Outside Croatia, while the pertaining act was being passed in the Parliament. Apart from setting up a general institutional framework of cooperation with the Croatian diaspora, said measures should also contribute to the opening up of additional investment possibilities for Croats abroad, emphasized Minister Jandroković.
He also discussed the new concept of economic diplomacy, initiated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, as part of which five commercial attachés had assumed post in mid-August at the Croatian embassies in Ljubljana and Vienna, as well as general consulates in Munich, Milan and Chicago. The minister expressed confidence that this would contribute to the attracting of foreign investments in Croatia, as well as the increase of Croatia’s export, which will surely be of interest to Croatian entrepreneurs abroad.
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