The European Commission's report on Croatia's readiness for EU membership will be mostly positive but it will also include critical remarks concerning the appointment of politicians to supervisory committees, the unfinished privatisation of shipyards and the introduction additional taxes for mobile telephony providers, Croatian Radio on Wednesday cited a senior source from the EU foreign affairs service as saying.
The same source says that the general tone of the April monitoring charts will be positive, stressing however it is important that the Croatian government does a serious job for a regular annual report on Croatia which Brussels will release in October.
This is important because some member states, such as Great Britain, the Netherlands and Finland, will not launch the ratification of Croatia's EU Accession Treaty until they are assured that Zagreb is meeting is obligations, the same source said.
The European Commission will present the monitoring charts for Croatia on 20 April, Croatian Radio said.
The report also criticises a lack of foreign investments in Croatia, recalling numerous obstacles, insufficient security measures and the issue of public procurement, Croatian Radio said.
Commenting on the appointment of politicians to supervisory boards, Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Vesna Pusic told Croatian Television that she was not certain if that would even be included in the report.
