The chair of the National Committee monitoring Croatia's EU entry talks, Vesna Pusic, said on Tuesday that no one in the European Union had asked that after the completion of its accession talks Croatia should request to be put under monitoring until its full membership of the EU.
Pusic commented for the press on media reports that Croatia had agreed to France's demand that it continue to be monitored after its admission to the EU, after she and the chair of the Parliament's Committee on Inter-Parliamentary Cooperation, Milorad Pupovac, met with a delegation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Mission for Croatia and the head of the IMF Mission, Suzana Murgasova.
"No one has ever said that Croatia should request monitoring on its own after the completion of its EU entry talks for the period until its full membership in the EU," Pusic said.
She added that there were proposals in some countries about some form of control of enforcement of what Croatia had agreed with the EU, but that some other member-countries were "decidedly against it."
"That debate has been going on among the member-countries, but no one is mentioning the possibility of control after Croatia gains full membership. That is something Croatia should take care of on its own, to enforce its laws and to abide by them. It may sound as a banality, but considering our experience, which is that we do not abide by our own laws, we have to see to it on our own."
This is the context in which one should view the issue of how the European Commission will follow Croatia's compliance with the obligations assumed after it completes its EU entry talks, said Pusic.
