{"id":3930,"date":"2020-06-10T16:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&p=3930"},"modified":"2020-07-16T15:35:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T13:35:47","slug":"president-milanovic-i-cannot-imagine-parliament-would-go-on-recess-after-being-constituted","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-i-cannot-imagine-parliament-would-go-on-recess-after-being-constituted\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107: I Cannot Imagine Parliament Would Go on Recess after Being Constituted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 participated in the 30th<\/sup> meeting of Lider magazine\u2019s Club of Exporters held at the Vetropack Stra\u017ea company in the town of Hum na Sutli, after which he took questions from reporters who were interested in his position on announcements of the possible purchase of Hungarian energy company MOL\u2019s stake in its Croatian peer INA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe first 25% is one story. What happened in 2007 and 2008, as it\u2019s known… that\u2019s another story. That was a very irresponsible deed by the former Government and political structure. After that you can only control, but you no longer have management instruments. You no longer have real power; you don\u2019t make strategic decisions in an important industry. And then three or four years ago the Government says it will buy back INA and nothing has happened since.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also commented on the Government\u2019s meeting with consultants hired to assess the value of INA, warning that the meeting with consultants comes just before the election. The President, however, is interested in something else: \u201cThe only thing I\u2019m interested in is how much the last consultants have been paid to date. Because in my opinion, that\u2019s wasted money. The contract was worth \u20ac9 million. True, some projects can\u2019t be done without consultants, but the question is whether the intention ever existed. I see the police are checking various studies that were done seven, eight years ago, when I was Prime Minister, studies that cost \u20ac50,000 each, and the former officials are being reported for those studies which are now being assessed as unnecessary. Given that in this case we are talking about millions of euros for one action that is not even being performed and is being paid from the Croatian budget, I want to know if those expenses are necessary. If anything had happened I could comment, but two weeks before the election it is distasteful to discuss this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asked by reporters whether, since he has been President, someone from the Russian company Rosneft tried to contact him, President Milanovi\u0107 said: \u201cI know one man at Rosneft, it\u2019s the largest oil company, it\u2019s state-owned, headed by one of President Putin\u2019s closest associates. They didn\u2019t contact me, why would they do so now. They associated me with people to whom I had no connection even while I was in the executive authority. As far as I know, Rosneft, or any other large oil company, did not even think about buying INA. The Croatian Government announced it would do something; it has not done anything and maybe it is better that way. I did not attack the Government over the decision that Croatian oil be transported to Hungarian refineries because I did not see the economic aspect. As long as Croatian refineries are working, that\u2019s good. If the Sisak Refinery is transformed \u2013 as was announced by INA and with the considerable aid of EU funds \u2013 into a plant where biofuel will be produced, that\u2019s great. And that\u2019s what we\u2019re waiting to see. As long as Croatian refineries owned by INA or MOL are operating, that\u2019s good enough for me. And in that regard, I do not question where a barrel of Croatian oil, extracted from Croatia, has ended up. This [situation] may be beneficial for the entire corporation and as a result I have never joined such attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Milanovi\u0107 said that he supported the initiative calling for the prompt adoption of the Law on the Reconstruction of Zagreb, which is advocated by the Mo\u017eemo!<\/em> coalition, and which initiated the signing of a petition requesting of the President to convene an extraordinary session of the Croatian Parliament after it is constituted post-election. \u201cI cannot imagine that some authority would constitute the Parliament and then go on recess. I would be shocked if that happened. There is no chance that they will form the Government and then go on holiday. I don\u2019t think that will happen,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reporters asked the President to comment on the statement by Branko Ba\u010di\u0107 in which he said that President Milanovi\u0107, if he were the Prime Minister, would have surely gone on holiday after the elections. \u201cI would go diving with the $5,000 Omega watch he received as a gift from ACI,\u201d President Milanovi\u0107 replied ironically. \u201cI was elected President by the will of the voters. He doesn\u2019t have to love me, but he shouldn\u2019t talk nonsense,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commenting on the statement by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovi\u0107 \u2013 who said that his Hungarian colleague Viktor Orban assured him that he had no pretensions towards Croatian territory, after the memorial depicting Greater Hungary caused tensions between the two countries \u2013 President Milanovi\u0107 said that this time he didn\u2019t speak with anyone. \u201cI have a history of telephone conversations with Orban. He assured me as well that everything was fine,\u201d said President Milanovi\u0107, adding that he \u201ccannot understand why things are the way they are, because there is no personal relationship. We know who Orban is and what he advocates, and it\u2019s nothing good. I would remain indifferent if Orban and his team were not the only ones to display such behaviour. Nobody in Europe behaves like that when it comes to historical borders, sensitive topics. From Hungary, all we hear about is being deprived.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Milanovi\u0107 believes that such statements are not reasonable and that no one in Europe today should have territorial pretensions. \u201cNot only is it improper, it is also not reasonable. We don\u2019t live in a colony on the moon or in the Asian steppes, but on a continent with historical trauma, and we all ended up behind particular borders. There are also some people in Croatia who believe that because Horvat is the most common surname in Hungary, Budapest should be a Croatian city. But that is nonsense, that\u2019s not the way to build relations with your neighbours. Hungary is not a big country. If anyone needs to complain because they were left cramped in a small space after the war, then that is the Germans. But you don\u2019t hear that from Germany,\u201d said the President of the Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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