The problem is not whether the advisory trio has solutions, but whether the Prime Minister has the political strength for reforms. If party interests overpower the advisory school of common sense, this could be the beginning of the end for Jadranka Kosor.
On the sidelines of last year’s Economists’ Conference in Opatija, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader thought of including independent economists in designing government measures for exiting the crisis. After a year, during which the achievements of that Economic Council (which is being dissolved!) can hardly be counted on one hand, the current Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor has come up with the idea that new/old economic advisors could participate in the government’s work. She has handed hot potatoes to the head of the Economic Institute Sandra Švaljek, her colleague Željko Lovrinčević, and Borislav Škegro, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and founder of the private equity fund Quaestus, and now expects recipes for salad from them. But how much can the recipes of these three neoliberals help at this moment? And, more importantly – how free are they to apply their knowledge and ideas?
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