The European Commission on Thursday welcomed the meeting between Croatia's and Slovenia's foreign ministers, expressing hope this was the key step to finding a mutually acceptable solution to the Ljubljanska Banka issue.
Commissioner Stefan Fuele welcomes the fact that the meeting of the Croatian and Slovenian foreign ministers was held in a positive environment, Let us hope that this a key step to finding a mutually acceptable solution which, as Commissioner Fuele has reiterated on several occasions, is urgently necessary, Spokesman for the Enlargement Commissioner Peter Stano said on Thursday.
Croatian and Slovenian Foreign Ministers Vesna Pusic and Karl Erjavec stated after their meeting on Wednesday evening in Brussels that it was possible to find a solution to the Ljubljanska Banka issue during February, which would pave the way for the ratification of Croatia's Treaty of Accession with the European Union in the Slovenian parliament.
"We have agreed to a new meeting on 6 February at which we, the ministers, and the two financial experts will convene to give an expert and political definition of the solution. Upon the definition of the solution, which is close, we will acquaint our respective governments with it, and I am sure that they will accept it," the Croatian minister said.
The two ministers stopped short of specifying what that solution might look like.
