The Serbian and Croatian Prime Ministers, Ana Brnabic and Andrej Plenkovic in Zagreb (BETAPHOTO/HINA/Daniel KASAP)
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on June 19 that Croatia would strive to resolve bilateral issues with neighboring states without throwing obstacles onto their path to the European Union.
"Croatia has a firm position: try to solve bilateral issues, but intelligently, without setting it up as an obstacle that is in actuality -- if someone wants it to be, irremovable," Plenkovic told a conference ahead of the tenth anniversary of Croatia's admission to the EU on July 1, 2013.
Plenkovic said he did not look kindly on a country being slowed down on its European journey due to bilateral issues because Croatia had the experience of "a few years lost" due to unresolved problems with Slovenia, and due to issues with the Hague tribunal.
He stressed that Russia's aggression against Ukraine had changed the attitudes of old EU members toward enlargement and that it now had a good chance of being quicker.
"Croatia will be principled, meet the criterion, but will also strongly support countries on the road to the EU because it is important to stability, development and security," the Croatian PM said.
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