Prime Minister Andrej Plenković accused the opposition on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, during a current affairs session in the Croatian Parliament (Hrvatski sabor), of causing harm to farmers in Lika, family farms (OPGs) and small business owners through messages about threats. He claimed that retail chains are demanding stricter conditions and greater controls from them as a result, and are raising the prices of their products.
Plenković was responding to SDP’s Sanja Radolović, who had called on him to visit Labin and listen to what citizens think about the burning of part of non-hazardous waste from Gospić at the Holcim cement plant in Koromačno. He told the opposition: “You want to remove them from the shelves. With your false narrative about the threat, you have caused economic damage to Gospić.”
He justified the government’s actions by the need to respond to a crisis which, according to him, was caused by people who acted unlawfully and who will be held accountable. He stated that 19 natural and seven legal persons are involved in the criminal proceedings. He also claimed that the cement plant is not doing anything it has not done before.
During the same current affairs session, HDZ’s Josip Đakić asked Croatian Veterans Minister Toma Medved for a comment on a final court ruling in Serbia, which states that a Croatian veteran, a former prisoner in a Serbian concentration camp, is entitled to compensation for torture and inhumane treatment. Medved described the ruling as an admission of systematic torture, inhumane conditions and unlawful deprivation of liberty of Croatian citizens on Serbian soil during the Homeland War.
He said that the response to the ruling will show whether Serbia passes the test of the rule of law, and stated that he expects it to confront its role as an aggressor in the war. Medved expects Montenegro to pay compensation to former prisoners of the Morinj camp.
Responding to HDZ’s Ante Deur on the hyperbaric chamber at the veterans’ centre in Petrinja, Medved described it as a major step forward in healthcare for Croatian veterans. According to him, preventive health check-ups are being carried out in 35 health institutions, and treatment and extended treatment activities are being strengthened. He noted that five veterans’ centres have been built and that preparations are underway to expand the network by a further five.
