EU accession

HSP suggests suspending EU entry talks until after elections

05.05.2011 u 14:03

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The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) proposed on Thursday that negotiations on Croatia's accession to the European Union be suspended until the end of elections, to be held towards the end of the year, so that "Croatia isn't forced to make new concessions with serious economic and political consequences."

HSP president Daniel Srb told reporters he would submit to the government next week a list of 50,000 signatures with five HSP demands: suspending the negotiations until after the parliamentary elections; consultations with ambassadors accredited in Zagreb; insisting on a session of the UN Security Council; consultations with Croatian ambassadors in EU countries; and releasing from custody and stopping the prosecution of Croatian war veterans.

According to the HSP, the Hague war crimes tribunal is a political instrument of putting pressure on Croatia used by those unfavourable to Croatia's EU accession because of the insistence on the submission of wartime military documents, despite a sentence handed down against two Croatian generals last month.

"Those documents have no other purpose than to put political pressure on Croatia," said Srb.