The manager of Zagreb's Palace Hotel told the media on Tuesday afternoon that the hotel would not be hosting an international nationalist conference to be organised by the Croatian Pure Party of Rights (HCSP) in the Croatian capital on Friday.
"The hotel and its management do not support extremist gatherings and hate speech. We are in hotel business, not in politics," said Josipa Jutt Ferlan.
HCSP leader Josip Miljak said earlier in the day that about 100 representatives of political parties with views similar to those of the HCSP from Hungary, Bulgaria, Germany, Austria, France and Belgium, would meet for a conference in the Palace Hotel on Friday.
Later this afternoon, he issued a statement saying the hotel had cancelled their reservation of its congress hall.
Miljak said the international nationalist conference would be held in the city's central Ban Jelacic Square at 6 pm on Friday.
Commenting on President Ivo Josipovic's statement that he did not support the conference because it would include parties that questioned Croatia's territorial integrity and whose platforms included hate speech, Miljak said he would "report President Josipovic to EU institutions."
