Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday he was hopeful that a solution to the dispute between the Croatian government and the European Commission over the application of the European Arrest Warrant would be hammered out in the best possible way.
Asked by reporters, during his visit to the Zagreb-based Biognost company, to comment on European Union Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding's statement that the government of Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic was doing a bad job in relation to the EAW implementation, Josipovic answered that "Mrs. Reding does her job and the government does its job." He said he believed that the dispute would be solved smoothly.
Asked to comment on messages from Brussels that PM Milanovic is playing with Croatia's plans to enter the EU passport-free Schengen zone through the EAW legislation, the President said that he was confident that the national parliament would alter the disputed provision and that the issue would be taken off the agenda.
Josipovic also said that there had been no talk of making Croatia's air space available to possible Syria-bound U.S. military planes.
