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00:00:00in this century, literally of everyone, so if he
00:00:03gets angry because of being associated with
00:00:07being close to everyone, I mean, the fact
00:00:10is, you were close to everyone, I mean, you can't escape
00:00:14that, so it seems
00:00:16to me that we are watching a very interesting
00:00:20situation in the HDZ and
00:00:23it will be interesting how it will unfold in the next year or so, so not only
00:00:27that general picture, the relationship between the HDZ and the opposition,
00:00:31will the right manage, here's captain Igor Štimac to unite
00:00:35the right, to consolidate, will they manage to
00:00:38do something and thus save the HDZ in some way, it's interesting
00:00:41too, the HDZ used to work on breaking up
00:00:45the right, now they are actually, it seems to me, in
00:00:48a situation where they can only hope that it won't
00:00:52happen that the right
00:00:54goes to the elections atomized
00:00:56and stays somewhere below the electoral threshold, because those votes will mostly benefit
00:01:00the strongest electoral list, and that will
00:01:03as things stand in most electoral units be the electoral list
00:01:07of the Left. Most as
00:01:10a coalition partner of HDZ without Andrej Plenković
00:01:13that seems to us like a realistic option, the story with
00:01:17Most is terribly interesting, I
00:01:20believe, I have no information about it, I haven't started
00:01:23teasing them about it yet, but I believe there is
00:01:26this expectation.
00:01:30Uh, a situation where
00:01:34however, they did not at some point someone from Most might say that, uh, they are instructing
00:01:38the secretary to write the dismissal of Mr. Andrej Plenković or something
00:01:42similar, but I can
00:01:44imagine that Most will cooperate with the HDZ after the next
00:01:48elections, uh, I can even imagine that Most
00:01:51will cooperate with the Left after the next elections, much less likely than that it will
00:01:55cooperate with the HDZ, but I
00:01:57cannot imagine Most cooperating with Andrej Plenković. According to current
00:02:01numbers, without Most there is no majority for either, and now
00:02:05again, I say what will happen in a year or so, we will see.
00:02:08Well, the Homeland Movement and Domino remain as potential
00:02:12options, but only if we have a strong enough microscope to
00:02:15see their
00:02:25story whether the story about Gospić will somehow remain
00:02:28important to people. Important to citizens, important to the media, and
00:02:32still something that will be intensively followed. It seems
00:02:35that it will, given that we will clearly
00:02:38follow both the process of remediation and covering and
00:02:42communication. It's important because the story about Gospić
00:02:46is not the only story in Croatia concerning waste. Yes, that is, that is
00:02:49an additional problem, that is an additional problem, I mean, that
00:02:53is now a real problem for
00:02:56the whole society. The fact is that really around the issue of waste,
00:03:00that generally mm, panic has risen.
00:03:03I won't use the word "hysteria" because the HDZ has used
00:03:07and invalidated it, but
00:03:10panic has risen and now literally everyone who sees a bag of trash
00:03:14puts on a gas mask approximately. Uh,
00:03:17the reason for that is that no one trusts institutions anymore,
00:03:20unfortunately. How will this be resolved in the
00:03:23end, how will the state be able to position itself
00:03:27from this panic and chaos as someone who is mm...
00:03:30Uh, who can solve the problem, meaning
00:03:33to remediate everything that needs to be remediated, to build
00:03:36incinerators, or rather power plants, so that they can use
00:03:40that waste and use it as fuel actually in
00:03:43Croatia, which is routinely done in developed
00:03:46countries. That is a big question, that is one
00:03:49of the nasty consequences
00:03:52of the affair that happened in Gospić, with these
00:03:56political political consequences...
00:04:00the HDZ will have to deal with these immediate consequences, yes, the story of
00:04:03Gospić will certainly remain a topic, the story of waste will certainly remain a topic,
00:04:07maybe not, almost certainly not with such intensity as it is now,
00:04:11because again, I say a year and a half is a lot of time,
00:04:14but it will not be a non-issue in the 2028
00:04:18elections, mhm, even though, for example, the ruling party, Jasmine,
00:04:21the story of reconstruction, regardless of the fact that Branko Bačić went to save
00:04:25his own government and other party
00:04:28colleagues managed to turn it around in their favor in the end, precisely because
00:04:32uh
00:04:34something actually started to be done on the ground, well, it was illusory but
00:04:38it lasted disgracefully long, it continues to last, but it lasted incredibly long, those are not my words, those are the words
00:04:41of Andrej Plenković, so
00:04:45that
00:04:49uh now in this situation it can
00:04:51be said that because of the story of reconstruction the HDZ has no political
00:04:54damage, nor political benefit
00:04:56for sure, but no damage. I do not believe
00:05:00that this can be done with Gospić, I do not believe, because the reconstruction
00:05:04was delayed only due to disorganization, yes,
00:05:08primarily due to disorganization. Gospić happened due to
00:05:10corruption. "And
00:05:14I don't think that story can be remediated by putting someone like
00:05:17Branko Bačić in charge, and that processes would, let's remove Branko
00:05:21Bačić, okay, all due respect, but processes would
00:05:24start, maybe a tiny bit slower, but they would start even if someone else
00:05:27was minister, because it simply took time to
00:05:31change laws, to prepare, to implement this and that, and it was to be expected that
00:05:34at some point it would finally start with the reconstruction of
00:05:38buildings. But I'm saying the story of Gospić, in its very essence, is
00:05:42different..." because it's clearly about
00:05:44corruption, because it's about the inaction of institutions, and because it's about endangering
00:05:48the health of citizens in the end, uh.
00:05:51And what do you think, all these situations that come out
00:05:55in that atmosphere, it's very important in what atmosphere they come out,
00:05:59for example, the sister of this boy from Zadar, we called,
00:06:02the system was aware, they didn't take us seriously, this horrific
00:06:06murder in Slatina, mhm, the police were there
00:06:1020 minutes before, so all those, not to mention... we clearly remember
00:06:13the Drniš case. The first thing is that things in Croatia only happen
00:06:17when some big trouble or tragedy occurs, then
00:06:21life sentences are introduced, new criminal offenses and so on,
00:06:24however, it is obvious that the matter is poorly organized, that
00:06:28there is no prevention, someone always gets stuck somewhere in that chain
00:06:31in this atmosphere, how much additional pressure
00:06:35it can create, and it certainly will create, because the system simply does not
00:06:39function, it will not start functioning just because... Andrej Plenković
00:06:43realizes he will lose the elections and then starts, then says "e,"
00:06:47he has that switch in his office, then he puts it from
00:06:50off to on and says "e, from now on everything works." It doesn't
00:06:53work like that. For years, I've been talking to you about
00:06:57the fact that
00:07:00partisan occupation of institutions
00:07:03and the exclusion of political responsibility as a concept at all in
00:07:06Croatia will result in the collapse of institutions.
00:07:10These are the consequences, the consequences. These terrible
00:07:13consequences, all these terrible cases are a consequence of the fact that
00:07:17institutions do not function, they do not function because there is no
00:07:21responsibility, no one is to blame for anything, at the head is always
00:07:24some party obedient who considers having a party
00:07:27membership card the most important thing, so now the chief state
00:07:30inspector, after all, Plenković again appointed a man from
00:07:34the HDZ.
00:07:37The scientific council, is the biggest problem in this whole story
00:07:40the absolute collapse of institutions, so people no longer believe when
00:07:44someone says "that institute, that institute," he said,
00:07:48he said, this is truly being questioned precisely from that position, I say it's even
00:07:52not important which party it is, would it be the same if it was some other
00:07:55one, but all of them are theirs.
00:07:59Yes, uh, that is a big problem for for for for
00:08:03social balance, of course it is, but that will not change with
00:08:06a scientific council for waste management in Gospić, and
00:08:10it is logical that it will not change because "that council is led by
00:08:14a man who knows nothing about waste, I mean, he probably sorts it
00:08:17at home like everyone else, but that's where it
00:08:20ends. And why do you think that decision went in that
00:08:24direction, uh, because of petty-bourgeois mentality, because
00:08:27Plenković wanted the council
00:08:30to be led by the rector of the largest Zagreb
00:08:33university, that's weight, authority,
00:08:37the man got his doctorate on the topic of the influence of trams on tram
00:08:40tracks, what does he have to do with waste?"
00:08:43Absolutely nothing. Of course,
00:08:47uh, nothing will be believed, not what that council
00:08:50produces, and we have experience with the prime minister's
00:08:53councils, commissions and similar
00:08:56things, the commission for dealing with the
00:08:59consequences of totalitarian regimes was supposed to make it easier for
00:09:03Plenković to deal with the Ustaše salute, a few
00:09:07years later, fast forward, the police
00:09:10are securing mm...
00:09:13uh, fans who are restoring a graffiti with
00:09:16the Ustaše salute that they illegally drew in the center of
00:09:20Zagreb, the commission did an excellent job,
00:09:23I mean, it's not the commission's fault, but the question for the end is, in that atmosphere,
00:09:26let's say that there is a change of power in
00:09:30Croatia, uh, it won't be easy, we remember
00:09:33Jasmine, those gas cylinders and tents
00:09:36in Savska, in a much calmer, Split Riva
00:09:40in a much calmer atmosphere, now it's... the atmosphere has
00:09:43heated up, so de facto two years before the elections
00:09:47it's already heating up, it's been heating up for a long time, now it's heated up
00:09:50even more, but I mean, I want to
00:09:54say, let's say that the HDZ goes into opposition in some perspective,
00:09:58it certainly won't be a peaceful and decent
00:10:00opposition, well, I guess
00:10:03street street gatherings and
00:10:06protests, that's the decor of democracy, but of course
00:10:10Split Riva and... chestnut vendors once
00:10:14and Savska, all of that
00:10:17went beyond the framework of democracy, I will
00:10:20just say that I hope that whoever comes to power after this government will
00:10:24be aware that they will need
00:10:28that cat's fire to try
00:10:31to reset this system so that we can finally
00:10:35build a state, because what we don't have is a state, only because we have, what
00:10:38we have is a state only because we have a flag and
00:10:42a football team, the system has
00:10:45completely collapsed. We are following how
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00:11:18cause of the Gospić case, we are live in
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00:15:01ultra-light sneakers for light and comfortable walking.
00:15:24The illegal waste action in Gospić continues to cause political
00:15:28disputes, as well as resistance in areas where some of the waste should be
00:15:31transported. While answers are sought about responsibility for the case that went under the radar
00:15:35for years, a new plan to prevent similar cases comes from the Homeland
00:15:39Movement. Croatia could get several
00:15:42thousand armed rangers who would
00:15:46fight against green
00:15:47crime.
00:15:50Waste remediation in Gospić continued to raise tensions on the national
00:15:54political scene. You have five times larger contracts with people whom
00:15:57you have been spitting on for decades. The opposition and civil initiatives
00:16:01are still suspicious of the government's scientific council for the remediation of
00:16:05illegally dumped waste in the city.
00:16:08The head of the council and rector of the University of Zagreb says "who else
00:16:11but us." To the opposition's accusations, he replies, "why weren't they
00:16:14brave enough to offer us the whole story about that element that
00:16:18I, throughout this whole time, listened to others
00:16:22say, nothing of what we
00:16:25imagined would have been realized." Some of the waste has already caused reactions in
00:16:29areas where it was supposed to be delivered. In Raša yesterday,
00:16:32several hundred people protested against the announcement that about 300 tons
00:16:36of Gospić waste would be used in Holc. In Našice, a petition
00:16:39against waste delivery was launched with more than 3,000 signatures, and
00:16:43a protest is also announced for Saturday. The experts know that very well,
00:16:47they are familiar with
00:16:50uh, waste,
00:16:53they know that the waste is harmless, that's why they are
00:16:57acceptable, a company that produces cement in Croatia
00:17:00would not take over waste to
00:17:03help the government, but it took over waste and
00:17:07that kind of waste that can be used in
00:17:11their production process. The Gospić case
00:17:14will be discussed by the Committee for Internal Policy and National Security
00:17:18behind closed doors. There will be a closed session without
00:17:21cameras, without finding a situation where anyone
00:17:25can object that someone wants to profit from
00:17:29politicking or similar. What interests me the most
00:17:33are the GDU's answers regarding
00:17:35that. If you knew in 2023,
00:17:39or rather, your people, you weren't even the chief state attorney yet, how is
00:17:43it possible that you didn't stop it, what
00:17:45are you waiting for, the jubilee 2000th
00:17:48truck? One thing is remediation, another
00:17:52is responsibility, and a third is how to prevent a new Gospić. Mlinarić says
00:17:56there has been a solution for a long time. We offered
00:17:59a solution a year
00:18:03and a half ago in the form of establishing a
00:18:05ranger service or... green police, whatever
00:18:09you want, because there is a large range
00:18:13from municipal warden to
00:18:16inspectorate. Rangers would, according to the proposal
00:18:19of the Homeland Movement, monitor illegal waste disposal, as well as
00:18:23protected areas. Green
00:18:25crime causes 550 to 650
00:18:29million euros of damage annually
00:18:33in Croatia. Five regional offices,
00:18:36ranger services. "Headquarters in Zagreb,
00:18:39we plan several dozen ranger
00:18:42stations, the initial plan indicates, international
00:18:45formulas tell you that about 3,500 to 4,500
00:18:49rangers would be enough for Croatia, you forgot to say, Željko,
00:18:53my friend, that the rangers would be
00:18:56armed, that they would not walk
00:19:00with their hands in their pockets. Vuković claims that rangers would
00:19:03relieve the police and the inspectorate who are already working with a shortage of people, but
00:19:07where? "To find thousands of new armed rangers, that they would be
00:19:10taken precisely from these already under-capacitated
00:19:13systems." Mateo Keller, N1,
00:19:16Zagreb.
00:19:19The topic of Gospić is, of course, and rightly so, not
00:19:23only Gospić, still one of the main topics in Croatia,
00:19:26however, today it will be indirectly discussed in the European Parliament
00:19:30in a debate that concerns
00:19:33the impact of toxic waste on the citizens
00:19:37of the European Union. Croatia and Gospić were not explicitly
00:19:40mentioned, although Gordan
00:19:43Bosanac from Možemo wanted them to be, but it did not
00:19:46happen. However, it will be discussed at three
00:19:57in the European Parliament, however, perhaps not
00:20:00named as it was
00:20:03originally conceived. Now the only question is how much focus will be on
00:20:07what is happening in Croatia, and it concerns cross-border
00:20:10waste. It is certainly, I mean, it is obviously a broader story than
00:20:14just Croatia. Dangerous waste is imported from
00:20:18other member states of the European Union. That's right. So,
00:20:21first of all, we are glad that we managed that my
00:20:25colleague, our MEP Gordan Bosanac managed
00:20:29to put that discussion in the European Parliament, that it
00:20:32will be held today, despite the fact that
00:20:35the IPP and HDZ together with them
00:20:38actually wanted to prevent it, in the end they
00:20:42somewhat succeeded in that, in a way
00:20:45that the case of Croatia and
00:20:49the case
00:20:53of Gospić are no longer mentioned in the very title of that discussion, which actually shows that their
00:20:57goal all along is not to remediate the problem that has
00:21:00arisen, but to remediate the political damage.
00:21:03However, we will have that discussion today. Well, they are remediating the problem, but they are probably also remediating the damage. I mean, the two processes can go
00:21:07in parallel, real. We have been hearing for
00:21:11months about how the remediation
00:21:14will begin. We have been hearing about how there is no,
00:21:18that they have not offered today who is responsible
00:21:22and to this day we actually do not have a complete plan of how all this
00:21:25will turn out, when all this will be finished, and most importantly,
00:21:29how will institutions in the future prevent
00:21:32this problem from arising, because if there are no responsible parties, if
00:21:36no one is responsible, who will then prevent such a problem
00:21:40from repeating? That is the point of the story. However, to return to
00:21:43the discussion in the European Parliament, so today
00:21:46we will certainly point out that
00:21:49the citizens of Gospić have the right to demand from both European
00:21:53institutions and Croatia responsibility that
00:21:56Croatia cannot and must not become a dump for European
00:21:59waste, and otherwise to see how,
00:22:03financially, and also regarding remediation, the European
00:22:06Union, uh, that is, the European Parliament, can
00:22:10help. What has certainly been shown is that Croatia
00:22:13did not have good oversight in this
00:22:16case. From all that deregulation,
00:22:20it happened that 38,000 tons
00:22:23of waste ended up illegally in Gospić, and that is a clear
00:22:26message that oversight needs to be strengthened and that the member states from
00:22:30which that waste came must also
00:22:33also participate in that. Uh, I think that
00:22:37the question is not why we have a discussion in the European Parliament today, but
00:22:40for example, why don't we have it in the European Council where the Prime Minister,
00:22:44or rather a representative of the government, sits. Uh, so
00:22:48I don't know if the Croatian Prime Minister Plenković
00:22:52asked his colleagues Meloni and Angela
00:22:55Merkel how it is that their waste
00:22:58ended up in our country and what urgent measures
00:23:02he will take with them to prevent this from happening again.
00:23:05So, the European Council is precisely for such discussions and
00:23:09I think that is the place where there should have also been a discussion
00:23:13about waste in Croatia. What messages
00:23:16did we hear yesterday from the president
00:23:20of the European Commission? Her speech has been analyzed since
00:23:23yesterday morning. Did you hear anything that sounded
00:23:27convincing or concrete to you?
00:23:29Well, perhaps the only surprise was the question
00:23:33of Canada, the accession
00:23:35of, uh, the potential accession of Canada as an associate member
00:23:39of the European Union, although as in other topics, it seems to me that
00:23:43a lot was said,
00:23:46however, there was a lack of specificity, so we don't
00:23:49know. Uh, in what, in what exact format would,
00:23:52for example, Canada join, although of course, that
00:23:56is, in my opinion, a positive outcome,
00:23:59because I think in this constellation of forces
00:24:02as we have a duopoly, uh, on one side,
00:24:06the dominance of the USA and China, I think that
00:24:09the European Union must find its way with other
00:24:13countries that will share basic
00:24:16values that are currently very much threatened in
00:24:19the world. "And those are values, first and foremost, the protection
00:24:23of democracy, an international order that is
00:24:26severely damaged, which our
00:24:29citizens fear, and I think that we should connect
00:24:32with countries that could together, uh,
00:24:35could, uh, perhaps put things back on a better, uh,
00:24:39better path. Whether it will be better, of course, remains
00:24:42to be seen, but we must try. So, that, and of course
00:24:45economic cooperation, can be positive,
00:24:49certainly. Positive steps. So, that
00:24:52is the only surprise for me. What I think was
00:24:56the most unpleasant surprise for me was, perhaps not even a
00:24:59surprise, because we saw that European leaders, for example, did not
00:25:03react, or rather, they were silent,
00:25:06on this unacceptable celebration
00:25:10of war criminal Ratko Mladić that we saw in
00:25:14Serbia. Yesterday, we heard von der Leyen
00:25:18finally condemn it in the most public
00:25:21way possible, that celebration of a war criminal in
00:25:24Serbia. However, what was also seen there
00:25:28that she did not say what the sanctions would be,
00:25:32what the consequences would be, so there won't be any, if there are
00:25:35uh, which means that actually they judged the phenomenon, and
00:25:39they saved a party colleague from the EPP,
00:25:43we just need to see now, will she visit
00:25:46Belgrade before the elections, she's going on a tour.
00:25:50tour, so that would be a very terrible message
00:25:53to do that, it's not known yet, however,
00:25:57however, we asked for clear sanctions and I think that
00:26:00is the message that the European Union needs to have sent long ago regarding
00:26:04the question, first only the spokeswoman
00:26:07addressed it, you remember that, exactly, so the spokeswoman
00:26:10addressed it, first, that was
00:26:13completely inappropriate, inadequate
00:26:17and then only under public
00:26:20pressure, among other things I wrote a letter as
00:26:23the president of the committee for European affairs
00:26:27to von der Leyen, where I said that the silence of both
00:26:31her and other European
00:26:33institutions regarding the unacceptable
00:26:36celebration of the war criminal Ratko Mladić
00:26:39who is responsible for the genocide in
00:26:42Srebrenica, who is responsible for terrible crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina,
00:26:46for crimes against Croatian citizens in Šibenik,
00:26:49Zadar, Škabrinja, Sinj, Knin,
00:26:52so, these are terrible crimes that he committed
00:26:56and which the European Union has now
00:26:59actually tacitly approved, or rather... it did not
00:27:03sanction it in any way, then a reaction came, however,
00:27:07where is the essence of the story? The essence of the story is that we,
00:27:10for example, demanded clear sanctions, so that negotiations with Serbia
00:27:13would be broken off, because we think that the European Union
00:27:17needs to send a message that regimes that celebrate war criminals
00:27:21are unacceptable to the European Union,
00:27:24which, for example, turn democracies into autocracies,
00:27:28which undermine media freedom and so on. I think that should be
00:27:32a very clear message from the European Union,
00:27:36react to that and we see that after
00:27:39everything, even Vučić remained
00:27:43a member of the EPP,
00:27:46why did that happen, well I think that they know what happened in
00:27:49Serbia, but I think that the silence is a result of the fact that
00:27:53they actually, instead of defending the values that European
00:27:56institutions should be doing, the other
00:28:00leaders of the countries prefer to make deals. from
00:28:03lithium to arms trade, that is unfortunately
00:28:07a problem that we have today in the European Union, meaning not only the economic
00:28:11problem that exists, but also the problem of political
00:28:14values, that we have institutions that
00:28:17do not defend them, that is what citizens expect.
00:28:20Porfirije was at the funeral, and for example
00:28:24yesterday Jandrović for the Left, this
00:28:27opportunistic Left, said that it was anti-national and
00:28:31Porfirian. "Well, I would return, that is, to what
00:28:34we also saw all the truth yesterday,
00:28:38that is -
00:28:41yes, I first asked the Prime Minister if he would expel Vučić from
00:28:44the European People's Party, because I think it is not
00:28:47acceptable in any European
00:28:50family for someone to sit with a party
00:28:53that in that way celebrates war
00:28:56criminals, he did not answer my question,
00:29:00I asked the same question to the Minister
00:29:03of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Grlić Radman, and
00:29:07he replied that we should let them
00:29:10resolve it within their family, so what is
00:29:14the message here? The message here is that things,
00:29:17unacceptable things, terrible things like genocide,
00:29:20that they talk about it in a way
00:29:23that it should be resolved within the family, I don't think it
00:29:27should be resolved within the family, but these are basic
00:29:30civilizational things that... demand strong
00:29:34condemnation and strong sanctions, after all, they are not the only ones, they cannot
00:29:38independently expel him from, I asked if they would
00:29:41request, they can request, then those
00:29:45eventual interests would be here and it's interesting, yesterday Željana Zovko was here on Novi Dan
00:29:49live from Strasbourg and at one point she said
00:29:53that it was bad or that she wanted
00:29:56values to be before minerals,
00:29:59that's what you're saying too. Yes, well look, then the only question is how
00:30:03that will be concretely translated, I think that values should be
00:30:07before minerals, but she is not in a party that can
00:30:11do that, that can say that
00:30:14given precisely such treatment, and Macron also sent
00:30:18a certain message in that sense, so I say European
00:30:20leaders have a problem, that's exactly what I said,
00:30:24today I think that European leaders mostly have a problem
00:30:28with maintaining
00:30:30their values and I said that in Parliament yesterday that it is a shame for European
00:30:34leaders that the day after everything
00:30:38we saw in Serbia uh that Macron receives
00:30:41Vučić for dinner and takes pictures
00:30:44on social media, so that is
00:30:48completely unacceptable, how did that
00:30:52yesterday's current affairs
00:30:54seem to you yesterday, well if I can just
00:30:58say for...
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