Željko Perić in Jadranka Kosor’s Advisory Team

The Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor has completed her advisory team for economic and business issues by appointing the esteemed Croatian entrepreneur Željko Perić, reports hrt.hr

Perić has extensive experience in corporate entrepreneurship and currently runs his own consulting firm. As is well known, Prime Minister Kosor has already appointed distinguished experts Željko Lovrinčević, Sandra Švaljek, and Borislav Škegru as her advisors on economic and business matters. After a meeting with the opposition regarding constitutional changes, Kosor stated that she, along with the entire government, is concerned about the number of unemployed in Croatia and announced that measures related to housing construction will be adopted next week. She reminded that the government has already adopted several measures that should yield results and announced measures related to housing construction for the following week.

‘Next week we will introduce measures related to housing construction to relax that area, as we have also announced some measures for those companies that are in particularly difficult problems. We are working with all our strength, as best we can, and next week we should see the first effects of the measures we have adopted, which we could not implement earlier because there was no money that could be released,’ said the Prime Minister after the meeting with opposition leaders on constitutional changes.

Kosor explained that a model is nearing completion that could initiate some activities in housing construction and added that she is also meeting with her economic advisors. She ruled out the possibility of increasing unemployment benefits and expressed hope that the forecast of some economic analysts that another 70,000 people will lose their jobs in Croatia this year will not materialize. ‘I would like employers not to use this moment to reduce the number of employees who do not suit them for various reasons. I hear that this is happening as well,’ said the Prime Minister and appealed to all employers to make every effort to preserve every job. (www.hrt.hr)