Croatian Prime Minister and Social Democratic Party (SDP) president Zoran Milanovic said in Umag on Wednesday that the government was working on the Brijuni Rivijera tourism project and that he expected the Brijuni isles in the northern Adriatic to attract "the world elite" with their beauty.
Speaking to the press, he said the project had been halted for years by the previous HDZ-led government, that the contract on it was signed 18 months ago, "but the crisis is felt in this sphere too, unfortunately."
Milanovic said Tourism Minister Darko Lorencin and other government colleagues were working on the project and that Croatia expected a lot from it "because it's a real project."
He said the hotel activity should be separated from the national park on Brijuni, adding that the accommodation facilities on the isles "are below any level, since nothing was invested and nothing was done for 20 years."
Speaking of the construction of the Plomin C thermal power plant, Milanovic said the project "is in the binding offer stage."
Earlier in the day in Pula, speaking at a local election rally of independent Istria County prefect candidate Damir Kajin and the SDP-HSU-HSLS-SDSS-SDA coalition, Milanovic said his cabinet did not discriminate or pay attention to who was in power on the local level.
"We are one nation as a political community... We are entering Europe together, we have one only one joint interest - to have more than we have and live safely."
