Preliminary estimates suggest that due to the war, the growth of the overall EU economy will not stop, but the total GDP of the eurozone could decrease. The decline could amount to around 0.3 to 0.4 percent or, in the worst case, one percent. Sustainable, they estimate in Brussels. While this may sound good for Brussels, Frankfurt, Paris, or Milan, it takes quite a bit of courage to clearly state that the war in Ukraine will be better endured by stronger EU economies, while countries like Croatia could easily fall into a spiral of crisis from which it will be very difficult to escape. There is an urgent need to establish a fund from which collateral victims of sanctions will be assisted. Despite everything, there is still capital available; it needs to be redistributed. Ksenija Puškarić writes about sanctions and how they will affect Croatian companies.
In addition to the damage that is counted in empty billions and huge holes in the country, the earthquakes that struck Zagreb in March of the year whose name is not mentioned, followed by Petrinja in December of the same year, opened another, particularly deep hole, but not in the ground, rather in the HDZ. As will be shown almost two years later, the earthquakes revealed the complete bankruptcy of Croatian political talent, if one can even speak of that in the context of Croatian politics, and elementary competence. Vanja Figenwald learns why very few honest and capable people want to get involved in Croatian politics.
