Hiding behind the expertise of a non-partisan mandate, Karamarko and Petrov have renounced their own responsibility for unpopular political decisions. There is no expertise in reducing the budget deficit, there is only a need for brave politics.
We have worked hard to close last year, and we have stepped into the new one with effort. As things stand now, nearly a quarter of the mandate could go to waste (read: negotiations), if we add a month and a half of chess-like coalition/collaboration formation. And not all actors are yet involved in the negotiations. The Government is being formed and talks about a program that should be led and implemented by Tihomir Orešković, but there are no explanations as to why he is absent at the start of the negotiations. Whose reforms will he implement? Those of Most? HDZ? IFO? The European Commission? Who will be responsible for what? Everything is being auctioned off, least of all the actual content. People are being chosen, but no one knows for which exact jobs, tasks, or reforms. The explanations from the ranks of Most and HDZ about why Orešković was not present at the opening of the negotiations to form the Government were ignorant evasions. How to survive political chaos, asks Gordana Gelenčer in the new issue of Lider.
New technological achievements enable rapid progress in many sectors. A large number of companies will soon have their own drones. Croatia could ‘plug into’ the global trend: from training pilots and operators to the production of unmanned aerial vehicles. However, modelers need to be given the opportunity to engage in serious business. How and where you can use unmanned aerial vehicles in business is revealed by Matilda Bačelić in the new issue of Lider.
The investment project in Lošinj is unique in Croatia in at least two ways. It is the most successful Russian investment in Croatian tourism and simultaneously a project agreed upon with the local community. The benefits are mutual, and the real fruits of cooperation and investment are yet to be expected. Two years have passed since the takeover of the largest company in Lošinj – Jadranka Group by Beta Investments, which today holds 98 percent of the shares of that company. Beta Investments is 100 percent owned by the Russian company UK Promsvyaz, which is in turn owned by Promsvyazbank, one of the leading Russian banks, one of whose co-owners is the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, which once held a 30 percent stake in Jadranka (the remainder belonged to the workers). This time it is one of the largest Russian investments since Croatia’s independence and one of the largest investment cycles in Kvarner tourism in recent years. That Lošinj is becoming the most luxurious Russian island in the Adriatic is written by Željka Laslavić in the new issue of Lider.
