Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Vesna Pusic has said that the European Commission's latest report on Croatia is "the best report in the history of Croatia's accession" and that there will be no need for the post-accession monitoring provided that Croatia fulfills the remaining tasks.
"This is the best ever report in the history of our accession," the minister told the commercial RTL television on Wednesday evening.
She said that Croatia had 51 tasks in the report issued in the spring to see the reduction of this number to ten tasks, according to the latest monitoring report which the Commission released earlier on Wednesday.
Asked about a possibility of monitoring Croatia upon its accession to the European Union, set for 1 July 2013, Pusic said that there will no need for that.
Minister Pusic said that the ten tasks underlined in the latest report were already being carried out.
Until the end of this year, a contract on the sale of Brodosplit will be signed and the conflict of interest commission will start functioning, according to the minister.
As for the issue of the now-defunct Ljubljanska Banka, Pusic said that the proposal that Croatia and Slovenia should together approach the Basel-based Bank for International Settlements had drawn good reactions and reiterated Croatia's position that this issue was unrelated to the process of ratification of Croatia's EU accession treaty and to European partnership.
