Croatian MEP Tonino Picula he assessed on the occasion of the concert Marko Perković Thompson which was held on July 6 in front of about 500.000 people in Zagreb, that part of Croatia has apparently abandoned European values.
Croatian MEP Tonino Picula commented on the concert of controversial singer Marko Perković Thompson, which was held on July 6 in front of around 500.000 people in Zagreb, assessing that part of Croatia had clearly abandoned European values.
At the SDP's round table in Zagreb, entitled "Who are our friends? Croatia in the European Union, the Western Balkans and the world in turmoil", Picula said that the question is whether this is a permanent state or whether it was about "bowing to the golden calf of large numbers at one public meeting", writes Večernji list.
"That still needs to be checked," Picula said, adding that everything that happened greatly reduced the pro-European agenda of the Croatian government and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković.
Marko Perkovic Thompson is not concerned, he added, but "the transformation of HDZ and the Government under HDZ".
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Participant of the round table was the historian Tvrtko Jakovina, who said that only what many people "liked" was seen at the concert.
"Now we just got it public from everybody," he said.
Last Saturday, a big concert by the controversial singer Marko Perković Thompson was held in Zagreb, where both the performer and the audience loudly shouted the Ustasha greeting "ready for home".
The extreme right-wing iconography met with harsh condemnation in the European media, but also a relatively lukewarm reaction from the European Commission.
