Between 15 January 2012 and March 15 at the latest, the commission will make decisions and "we will enter the next stage of that big project which will provide new accommodation capacity and help create new jobs and employ around 2,000 people," PM Kosor said.

Kosor said she believed that the municipality of Fazana, whose head did not sign an agreement on the project, would join in the project.

Asked if more could have been done for economic development, Kosor said that it could have, but that the first excellent indicators were already visible.

"GDP growth in the second quarter is positive, modest and amounts to 0.8 percent, but it nevertheless represents growth, along with a growth of exports and a growth of consumption. Slowly but surely we are making progress towards the goal... of overcoming the crisis," Kosor said, adding that one of the conditions for that was "strengthening the investment potential".

"If we strengthen the investment potential, new jobs will be opened, the economy will strengthen and GDP growth will be higher," the PM said.

"We will also reduce the deficit in line with the law on fiscal responsibility," said Kosor, who after the session of the commission for the Brijuni Rivijera project visited with her associates the locations of the future tourist complex - the island Sv. Katarina, Monumenti, Pineta, Hidrobaza and Muzil.

The head of Istria County, Ivan Jakovcic, invited prospective investors to talks.

"I am inviting them to visit my office, the Brijuni Rivijera company, as well as government ministries so that we can select the best possible investors for this project."

Kosor, Jakovcic, and the mayors of Pula and Vodnjan, Boris Miletic and Klaudio Vitasovic, signed the agreement on the Brijuni Rivijera project in late July. The first stage of the project covers three locations - Hidrobaza, Sv. Katarina and Pineta, which have an area of around 100 hectares.

The entire Brijuni Rivijera project is estimated at more than two billion kuna.