Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor announced today an upcoming meeting on how to assist the Croatian textile industry, which is in a very difficult state, emphasizing that some concrete proposals already exist, but she cannot yet speak about the details.
The Prime Minister made this statement in the Croatian Parliament, responding to a question from SDP representative Biserka Vranić about whether the Government is considering and how it plans to assist Varteks, which intends to lay off 1,200 workers in the upcoming period, as well as the entire textile industry. On this occasion, she announced that the meeting on this topic should take place next week, and that she will invite trade unions and employers, as well as all those who can help the textile industry in any way. "We all must work together to ensure that the textile industry survives in Croatia," Kosor emphasized.
SDP member Daniel Mondekar accused the Government that the thousands of newly employed individuals in ministries and the Government (compared to 2008, 300 more employees in the Ministry of Health, 270 more in the Ministry of Finance, 160 more in the Ministry of Rural Development, 1,100 in the Government, and 135 million kuna more in budget allocations for administration than last year) are not in line with the austerity program that the Prime Minister emphasizes in public. "How much does this cost taxpayers and how does it fit into the austerity program?" he asked Prime Minister Kosor, who replied that everything the Government is doing at this moment is in line with austerity measures.
