First Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign and European Affairs Minister Vesna Pusic on Tuesday resolutely denied allegations in some media that her Croatian People's Party (HNS) would leave the ruling coalition if an initiative was launched to amend the Constitution to lift the statute of limitations on political murders.
She said there was no such initiative in the senior coalition Social Democratic Party (SDP) for the time being, and that if discussions with the European Commission were to be held, the matter "will be solved on the legislative level."
Pusic said that "if we want stability, the Constitution should be changed little and rarely."
"This certainly isn't such a situation," she said, dismissing the media allegations.
According to the media, the HNS seriously doubts the survival of a law on cooperation with European Union countries in judicial matters, adopted by parliament last Friday, which stipulates that the European Arrest Warrant should be applied to crimes committed after 7 August 2002.
