LITICS & CRIME SHARE TWEET POLITICS & CRIME We are poor because half of our economy is controlled by people like Josip Rimac and friends That the Croatian administration is not functioning is not just a subjective experience of those who are forced to be in touch with it Marko Repecki 16:20 14 RECOMMENDATIONS 2 COMMENTS The investigation into Josip Rimac leaked a number of bizarre details, such as the latest one, that one employee for whom Rimac urged managed to fail the exam, then threats to HEP bosses that they would be "drunk with blood" if she did not. hire a sister. But that only confirms what we all know anyway - that everything that has to do with the state is full of nepotism and corruption. As we know, Croatia is one of the poorest members of the European Union. In fact, we are penultimate, just above Bulgaria. We have been standing still for three decades, as suggested by the Maddison Project data that in the period from 1989 to 2016 we had GDP growth of only 6.5 percent, while some other countries, such as Ireland and Poland, had growth over 100 percent. In particular, Ireland 157 and Poland 125 percent. All this should not surprise us, if we take into account that half of the economy is controlled by incompetent administration, such as friends and party colleagues Josip Rimac, who are not able to pass the state professional exam, but are various chiefs and chiefs through whose hands they pass. billions, which shape the laws, determine the rules of the game and affect the lives of each of us. WHAT DOES THIS, SO, SO DIFFICULT STATE EXAM LOOK LIKE? What the state professional exams look like can be seen at the link . The list includes questions such as "What is the Croatian Parliament?" and “How is the President of the Republic elected?”, but this is obviously too much of an obstacle for some people who are part of the state apparatus. Data on government revenues and expenditures in GDP show the extent of government influence on the economy. According to this criterion, Croatia is the leader among transition countries with about 47 percent. From this data it is clear that practically every other kuna in the economy is under state control. EVERYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH A STATE FULL OF NEPOTISM AND CORRUPTION The investigation into Josip Rimac leaked a number of bizarre details, such as the latest one, that one employee for whom Rimac urged managed to fail the exam , then threats to HEP bosses that they would be "drunk with blood" if she did not. hire a sister. But that only confirms what we all know anyway - that everything that has to do with the state is full of nepotism and corruption. That the Croatian administration does not function is not only a subjective experience of those who are forced to be in contact with it, and that is practically all citizens, but it is also confirmed by relevant research. Croatia is at the very bottom of all scales of competitiveness and ease of doing business. CROATIA AT THE BOTTOM IN TERMS OF THE EFFICIENCY OF PUBLIC SERVICES Last year, the University of Oxford included Croatia in the International Civil Service Effectiveness (InCiSE) Index, which is the first international index to measure the efficiency of public services. Croatian public services ranked 35th out of a total of 38 observed countries. Transition Report 2019-2020 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, published earlier this year, showed that Croatia is closer to Eastern Europe and the Caucasus in terms of the quality of governance than the average of the region to which it belongs - Central Europe. Poor governance is an obstacle to achieving income levels in developed countries. because it hampers entrepreneurship and the innovations on which modern economies are based. The mentioned report showed that with the improvement of governance and the assumption of growth rates as we had from 2010 to 2018, Croatia would need 40 years to reach income at the level of the seven most developed countries in the world, and without improving governance for 120 years.