“I wish to announce that at the meeting with Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Deputy Secretary-General Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen, we officially started the negotiations,” said Grlić Radman, who participated in the meeting between Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and Knudsen in Government House.
“This is a historic moment for us today… after joining the Schengen Area, after joining the euro area, this will really be the ‘icing on the cake,” he said addressing the media.
Knudsen agreed with him that this is a historic moment and said that Croatia is doing this in order to create a better life for its citizens.
At the final meeting of the Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development at the ministerial level held on 10 June OECD member states adopted the Accession Plan for Croatia.