The Croatian government will certainly not decide on ‘lex Perković’ for several more weeks, but the Croatian Minister of Justice will respond to the letter from European Commissioner Viviane Reding, stated Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanović in Graz.
The European Commission has never discussed this matter, but our minister will respond to the letter from the European Commissioner, however, one thing is certain, and that is that the government will not decide on this in the next few weeks, said Milanović after a meeting with Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann and Slovenian Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek in Graz.
No one in Europe is discussing this issue, and thus Chancellor Faymann learned about it quite by chance. The European Arrest Warrant represents an exception in Europe as it is applied differently. Austria, for example, as an old member, has the possibility of exemption, while Croatia and Slovenia do not, and that right of exemption is eternal. Croatia does not evade but respects that warrant, but will seek for this issue to be discussed in the European Council itself, said Milanović.
