It is particularly inconvenient for the prime minister that recently his conversion of democracy into decoration has also been recorded by influential foreign sources.

In the last issue of Nacional, we wrote extensively about the latest report of the Swedish Institute for the Diversity of Democracy, the V-Dem Institute, which placed Croatia among the seven EU members, in the company of Hungary, Greece, Slovenia, Slovakia, Italy and Romania…

…states that slide from democracy to autocracy. Their findings were confirmed on Monday by an extensive report by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe, a leading European group for civil liberties, which, based on analyzes of more than 40 non-governmental organizations from 22 countries, declared the governments of five European Union members – Bulgaria, Croatia, Italy, Hungary and Slovakia – to be systematic and deliberate dismantlers of the rule of law.

Plenković’s government thus once again, for the second time in just ten days, found itself among the notorious destroyers of democratic freedoms.