Croatia: primary political objective is fast integration into the European Union

For the day after the outcome of Croatia elections, three factors emerge in presentation of changes that would allow the country to revaluate its current status in the path to integration: (1) the formation of a government, both in terms of the continuation of the conservative government led by Ivo Sanader as well as that headed by Zoran Milanovic's Democratic Socialists, will not substantially change its approach to the EU; (2) changes, if they occur, will have a principally political scope that, focused within the country, will attempt to stress the distinction between the two alliances and the two leaders; (3) the only element that could, not substantially, make life more difficult for the Sanadar Democratic Union of Croatia, which is currently in possession of 61 of the 77 votes necessary to form a government, would be the Citizens' party in the case that it should ever decide to ally with Parliament.

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Tomas Matraia

(21 December 2007)