Croatia Ends Negotiations with EU This Year

Minister Kosor thanked the officers for their sacrifice that enabled Croatia to complete negotiations with the EU this year.

ZAGREB, CROATIA – The First Croatian Police Association, which gathers the first ever armed police troops in Croatia, held its fifth assembly at the Zagreb Police Academy. Croatian Homeland War Soldiers’ Minister Jadranka Kosor attended the assembly as a special guest. 

Croatia is ending negotiations with the EU this year 

After the Croatian national anthem and a minute of silence for all those killed during the Homeland War, Minister Kosor held an opening speech.

The minister thanked the officers and their families for the courage and perseverance they showed during the war in Croatia, adding that without their sacrifice, Croatia would not be what it was today.

- Today, Croatia is a member of the Security Council and soon, we can count the days, we will become members of NATO. This year definitely, despite all the blockades, we will end our negotiations with the European Union, and all this would not be possible without you – the minister said.

Plan to prevent Homeland War soldiers from being forgotten 

Minister Kosor stated an idea of how to prevent Homeland War soldiers and police officers from being forgotten, which is that pupils should, at least once, visit Vukovar, see its water tower and light candles at the memorial cemetery.

- No Croatian Homeland War veteran should be forgotten. I call on all citizens of Croatia to do everything for them – Kosor said.

In her speech, the minister said that her ministry had never removed funds from any project intended for the Homeland War veterans and that the budget of six billion kuna should suffice for projects that will make possible the employment of veterans, their pensions and housing.

In the end Kosor voiced her wish that as many people gather at the Plitvice Lakes where homage will be paid to Josip Jovic, the first Croatian police officer killed in the Homeland War.