Kosor said she would convene a meeting of ruling coalition parties early next week to review today's talks at the president's office and adopt some decisions.

After that, she will invite opposition representatives to talks on whether it is possible to revive the Alliance for Europe in order to complete the accession negotiations and about the date of parliamentary elections.

"I remind you that I clearly said several times that parliamentary elections will be held by the end of 2011, even though the legal deadline is March 2012," Kosor told reporters, adding that what was happening now was aimed at "pushing the government to step down immediately and holding elections immediately."

Kosor said she would not agree to any ultimatums about the election date. "If elections were called now, as wanted by some, we would have no chance of completing the negotiations, as a technical government can't do the job it has to do before the negotiations are completed."

Kosor said it took two sides for talks and that the talks could have been held yesterday had opposition leaders Zoran "Milanovic and (Radimir) Cacic tried to overcome their vanity and come to the talks" she had convened.

Kosor said the invitation to Milanovic and Cacic still stood, "unless their goal is something else, namely to topple the government," which she said they tried to do throughout 2010.

"We don't expect anyone to help us. We expect the opposition parties not to hinder us," she said.

Asked when she would come to parliament, as repeatedly asked by the opposition, Kosor said she would do so when invited to talk about the situation in the country and what the government had done to complete the EU entry talks and boost the economy.