ZAGREB, 01. SEPT. 2016 – Outgoing Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miro Kovac stated that a letter from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic had shown that Croatia was right to tell Serbia that blaming would get it nowhere.”Juncker’s letter clearly confirms that we were right when we said that blaming, which is what Serbia is doing, will get it nowhere,” Kovac told reporters on the sidelines of an informal meeting in Potsdam the HINA news agency reported. He reiterated that Croatia would support Serbia’s entrance into the EU, but that Serbia needed to do its share of the work. Croatian Democratic Party president Andrej Plenkovic said in Krapina on Sept. 1 that tensions between Serbia and Croatia, and all other open issues, needed to be resolved though dialogue, in a European spirit and context. When asked about the letter that the EC president had sent Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, Plenkovic said that it was geared toward calming tensions and avoiding irresponsible statements. According to him, all problems with neighbors exist because of the “aggression of the Greater Serbian Milosevic regime which was in the territory of Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and later Kosovo.” “All problems with neighbors date back to that era,” Plenkovic said after an election campaign gathering in Krapina.
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