Two days before joining the European Union, Croatia passed a law on judicial cooperation with EU member states in criminal matters, limiting the application of the EAW to crimes committed after 2002.

"Unfortunately I am very sorry to say that Croatia, not the Croatian people, but the Croatian government is doing very bad to Croatia and to its reputation," Reding told RTL which aired this on Tuesday evening.

According to her, "the European Commission is the guardian of the Treaty and if there is a country which does not apply what it has signed ... and goes against the promises, goes against the Treaty, goes against the law, it is the responsibility of the Commission as a whole to say that can't be accepted."

"President Barroso made it very clear last week that it is the whole commission which is behind of this," Reding said.

Reding reiterated that this had nothing to do with her but with the European Commission as a whole.

Asked to comment on Reding's latest statement, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said "this issue was interesting to several people in the Commission and to nobody else abroad," because Reding gave this statement only to RTL and that other Croatian television networks, let alone the BBC, ZDF or ARD, had no interest in it.

"This is not a topic," Milanovic said. According to him, "the European Commission is being perceived as the guardian of the Treaty, but the interpreter of the Treaty is the court (in Luxembourg)."

The PM reiterated that a time limit was put on the EAW so as to avoid having crimes committed during the Homeland War tried before "third countries." He underlined that changing the law immediately was out of the question and that his government set the deadline for 15 July 2014.

Earlier today, Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said he was hopeful that a solution to the dispute between the Croatian government and the European Commission over the application of the European Arrest Warrant would be hammered out in the best possible way.