New Issue of Lider: Austerity – What Budget Users Are Willing to Give Up

Assuming that all social and interest groups must tighten their belts, we asked everyone what they would be willing to give up, and by how much.

The answers are mostly general; everyone has already given up everything they can and believes that a time of sacrifice should come – but only for some other groups. Or, as the unions say – put concrete proposals, goals, and deadlines for sacrifice on the table, which you can read about in the new issue of Lider by Vanja Figenwald and Gordana Gelenčer.

There is no ideal GDP structure for any country. However, Croatia should strive for commodity exports to at least exceed the export of (tourist) services. The share of high technology, industry, transport, and agriculture needs to be increased. This way, we would reduce dependence on the Sun, natural disasters, and global threats, writes Željka Laslavić in a piece about how Croatia can free itself from the dangerous dependence on tourism.

The largest global survey of entrepreneurial capacity of countries (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor – GEM) published results for 2015 last Friday in Boston. And where is Croatia? According to many indicators, still at the bottom. All the details are provided by Slavica Singer, the author of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2015/2016, who claims that Croatian employees are extremely innovative, but companies do not exploit this entrepreneurship.

We also bring a story about the Technology Park Zagreb (TPZ) where only companies whose high-tech products with export potential are the main foundation of their business come. About 50 companies have emerged from this incubator, and 20 to 30 percent of startups succeed in the market.

We also present the company HŽ CARGO where Polish PKP Cargo could become the most likely strategic partner, and interested parties could also include Romanian-Hungarian Grampet, German Schenker, and the Chinese.

In the world block, we write about Argentina where the new Prime Minister wants to break the country’s financial isolation at all costs, as well as about Nintendo, which is fiercely defending its third place in the video game market.