He reminded that it was their (HDZ) political rivals that disbanded the national committee on monitoring Croatia's EU talks which had been led by the now Foreign and European Affairs Minister Vesna Pusic and urged Premier Milanovic to re-establish a similar committee to see that the job of Croatia's accession to the EU is completed successfully.

He denied that his party opposed Croatia's accession to the EU. "That is just ludicrous. After six years of hard negotiations that the HDZ started and completed, that all of a sudden now we begin to go against what we ourselves achieved", said Karamarko.

He added that perhaps the government was not spreading these fabrications but if it was, then the government is trying to cover up its clumsiness in relations with the EU by such fabrications.

"The government must not question anything in the signed treaty. Whatever was agreed to with the EU must be adhered to even after the HDZ was ousted out of government because Europe expects as much", he pointed out.

He added that it was senseless that the government had confronted some people in Brussels who have helped Croatia for so many years.

Asked by reporters to comment on Premier Milanovic's announcement about a possible new referendum in Croatia about the EU, Karamarko said this referred to something that was just starting to be discussed in the EU and who knows what will come out of it all.