The Swedes launched a campaign against Croatia
After Croatia assumed the six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union, Swedish media began actively publishing critical articles about its policies regarding migrants, abortion and the environment.
Total Croatia News writes about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Although each EU member state takes turns taking over the six-month presidency of the EU Council, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic presented Croatia's EU presidency as something of a remarkable success for his government and hoped for public recognition. But the opposite happened,” the article says.
Swedish MP Malina Bjorka attacked Plenkovic at a plenary meeting of the European Parliament in Strasbourg over Croatian police brutality against migrants and their forced return to neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina without following any proper administrative procedures.
Björk also made her case in a column entitled "Don't let Croatia enter the Schengen zone" published in the Swedish publication Svenska Dagbladet. The topic was picked up by other Swedish media.
Another MP, Alice Bach Kuhnke, in a column for the Daily Aftonbladet, criticized the Croatian Vice-President of the European Commission, Dubravka Šuica, for speaking out against abortion. She called on her Swedish colleagues in the European Parliament not to vote for Schuitz.
A few days ago, the Swedish Svenska Dagbladet raised the issue that the sponsor of the Croatian presidency of the EU Council is an oil company, which does not correspond to the environmental policy of the European Union. The Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs had to issue a statement that the country supports the EU's green policies.
Meanwhile, the Swedish publication Svenska Dagbladet published a text about Croatia's demographic losses and emigration. Since 1991, the country has lost 15% of its population.
“It is unlikely that Plenkovic and his government expected such severe criticism and justified complaints from a northern European country,” sums up Total Croatia News.
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