Croatia jeopardises EU membership

At the EU foreign ministers' meeting today, the ministers will decide among other things whether Croatia is ready for EU membership. But the Croat government is making some grave mistakes in this final phase, the daily Delo writes. "In the coming days when the EU member states make the final decision on whether Croatia is ready for EU membership the political leadership in Zagreb is making such silly mistakes that it's no wonder the influential northern EU members are sceptical. The latest affair in which the ruling HDZ party made a clumsy attempt to accuse the influential opposition politician of capitalising on arms deals, has demonstrated that he Croat police is still a mere pawn in the hands of the ruling party. ... A huge scandal. As if the Croat leadership didn't know that EU diplomats would inform their countries immediately of such an abuse."

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