One hundred days is a short period, but in the first 100 days we adopted a budget amounting to less than HRK 3.4 billion which changed the current trends. This move was not popular but it was necessary and we also made a difficult decision concerning the shipyards. We managed to maintain the credit rating, we are introducing order in the tax paying system and we are preparing new investments. The referendum on Croatia's EU entry passed with a two third majority. I will not call this decisions historic, but they were most definitely very important, Milanovic said.

Asked about the ratio between the expectations and plans as well as between what the government has managed to do so far, the PM said "the situation is difficult."

"I cannot say that I am satisfied. I cannot be satisfied with a mere fact that we managed to maintain the credit rating. Although the situation would be far more difficult if we hadn't. I will be satisfied once we move forward," he said.

The PM stressed that the government had done "what was really necessary. Of course, we are only at the beginning. Our goal is to stimulate growth. To start working for the country, for its citizens and not only for foreign creditors," the prime minister said.

Commenting on union claims that the government has failed the workers and that some ministers are demonstrating a lack of empathy for the people who are losing their jobs, the prime minister stressed that the government had been claiming from day one there would be no radical changes to the Labour Act. "Our position is clear and firm and there will be no deviation from that. As for the empathy, my impression is entirely different. However, in my opinion, at this moment people expect the government primarily to adopt decisions and solve problems," he said.

Commenting on information that in the first three months of the new government, the number of unemployed went up by 30,000 and on a reporter's remark that this gives an impression that the government is treating this problem in "a cold and careless manner", Milanovic said that every minister was doing what they were in charge of.

"The problem of unemployment can be solved only in the sphere of the real sector, namely the economy ministry, small and medium-sized entrepreneurship, regional development and EU funds. It is up to us to create conditions for that. We are not hiding the unemployment number, we are making it public on a regular basis. This is our reality which can be changed only by hard work, investments and the introduction of order. And that takes time," Milanovic said.

Asked about the announced investment offensive, the PM said Croatia "has funds for planning the projects." We want energy, we want Plomin, we want railways, money is an issue at all, he added.

Commenting on the shipbuilding industry, the prime minister said the job had not yet been finished. "It will not be finished until we solve the issue of Brodotrogit and 3. may shipyards," the PM said.

Asked to which extent were the principles of the government's staff policy in line with the EU and Croatia's obligations, Milanovic said that the government's standards were very high "at least as high as they are for example in Germany where state officials are sitting on the supervisory board of Volkswagen."

Asked if Croatia would have problems with Brussels concerning the appointment of ministers Radimir Cacic and Slavko Linic to the supervisory committee of the INA oil company, Milanovic said the government had not yet appointed a single minister to a supervisory committee of any company.

"In principle, we are against this practice. But I cannot accept a law which strictly forbids the state to do sot. This has nothing to do with democracy or responsibility ... for managing state property. We will make an exception only with INA," Milanovic said.