Press Conference held by Finance Minister Šuker
European Commission acknowledges the Croatia\’s efforts during the period of last six months in the field of management of pre-accession EU funds. Therefore, on Friday 25th July 2008 the suspension of contracting of projects from PHARE 2006 was removed and 5 million EUR from IPA programme were also defrosted. However, the advisor of the EC Delegation in Croatia Oscar Benedict stated that Zagreb must make further efforts in implementation.
The EU funds available to Croatia were presented on the press conference held by Mr. Benedict and Finance Minister Ivan Šuker. Mr. Benedict stated \”We aknowledge Croatia\’s efforts and now have a possibility to remove the suspension\”.
