In anticipation of good news from Brussels on Friday about the completion of Croatia's European Union accession talks, President Ivo Josipovic said on Thursday that tomorrow would be one of the historic days and the crown of what had been done in the many years since Croatia started thinking of its European future.
"I am positive that we are very close to the completion of the negotiations," Josipovic said in response to reporters' questions today.
"We are entering a new stage at which we must be aware that we have not finished reforms and that we must continue with them in all fields and that this is a task awaiting probably several more generations."
On Friday, the European Commission is expected to forward to the Council of the European Union draft negotiating positions for the remaining four chapters to be closed in the EU-Croatia membership talks. In this way, the Commission will have done its part of the job and it is now on the EU member-states to make a final decision on closing those policy chapters and on the conclusion of the negotiations.
A decision of this kind is likely to be made in the coming days.
