The opposition said on Thursday that the government's plan for investments in the next three years was "nothing but a wish list", criticising it for failing to set deadlines for completion of proposed projects or to ensure funds for tenders for this purpose.
Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) parliamentarian Ivan Suker said that the government had continued along the path that "has proved to be unsuccessful".
It is unrealistic to expect the implementation of the planned investments as no funds have been secured in the budget for conducting public tenders, Suker said.
He warned that each project of a state-run company was treated as public debt and added that Croatia must pave the way for private investments.
Suker refutes claims by the government that the previous, HDZ-led government had not prepared any projects that could have been carried out during the first term of the new government.
A parliamentary deputy of the Croatian Democratic Party of Slavonia and Baranja (HDSSB), Zoran Vinkovic, said he wished that "a tsunami of investments" would happen but doubted they would.
Labour Party leader Dragutin Lesar was also sceptical. He said that the lion's share of planned investments was based on new lending "obviously on the foreign market", which he found unacceptable.
