ZAGREB, June 11, 2020 – Homeland Movement leader Miroslav Skoro said on Thursday he did not agree with the government’s plan to buy MOL’s stake in INA because he explained in Bjelovar, that money could be used for much better solutions that would increase Croatia’s energy independence.
He described the sale of Croatian oil company INA as a process “in which a number of governments took part and which has caused irreversible damage to Croatia.”
The Hungarian stake in INA has been estimated at HRK 16-17 billion and I believe that Croatia can make much better solutions in the energy sector for that money, Skoro told reporters.
“No one can buy Croatian oil sources, they can only get a concession. We import 40% of energy, yet we don’t consider hydro-electric power plants as energy sources but have wind parks… We won’t run further into debt to procure energy.”
Skoro said the introduction of the euro should be put to a referendum, criticised the government’s tax policy, saying foreign investors had a rule called Anything But Croatia and said he would join the March for Life.
He said the focus of his visit to Bjelovar was agriculture. “We live in a country which isn’t sovereign in many areas, notably in the agriculture and food sector. The crisis caused by coronavirus gives us the opportunity to change a policy which is concentrated on trade and imports because we can feed not only Croatia but a much larger region too.”
