Prime Minister Milanovic: Goal is to move Croatia among the top 10 EU countries in Doing Business

Addressing a conference organised by the Lider newspaper on disruptive innovations through smart solutions' application in Zagreb, PM Milanovic said that Croatia had made progress in e-administration, recalling that the government had introduced e-scheduling of medical appointments and also fiscalisation in the services sector.

 

Milanovic said he was sorry to see that informatisation was not one of the main topics in election campaigning.

 

He also boasted that in the last two or three months, Croatia was at the top of the list in Europe when it came to the business climate, noting that this ranking had been prepared by EUROSTAT, the European Union's statistical office.

 

"The business index climate takes into account five to six exact criteria, and those are industry, services, personal consumption, consumers' confidence and construction," Milanovic said at the conference which was attended by nine government ministers.

 

Deputy Prime Minister Milanka Opacic spoke about headway in e-governance, stressing that things had move forward.

 

"You could see that entrepreneurs can obtain building permits within a day, or five days in some counties. The economy cannot recover overnight, these projects have been implemented for years, and you can see that our measures have yielded results," Opacic told reporters

(Text: Hina)