14 February, 2022 - After meeting with the parliamentary opposition on Monday, the Bridge party announced that it was launching an interpellation on the government's work over rising energy prices.
"The Bridge group convened the meeting with the opposition to discuss certain proposals for an interpellation regarding the issue of energy," Zvonimir Troskot said, adding that there were several proposals and a final one hasn't been decided on.
Each parliamentary group presented short and long term measures to buffer inflation, he added.
Bridge believes that the government was not prepared for this crisis and that it is tardy in adopting measures to relieve the situation with rising energy and food prices. The party thinks that the focus should be on fiscal relief, by reducing VAT and abolishing excise taxes on fuel, and on social transfers, said Troskot.
"For months we have been pointing out the problem of inflation and increasing energy prices, and the government has done absolutely nothing about it, only saying that there won't be increases in gas prices before 1 April," he said.
Bridge also commented on the government's idea to tax Croatian residents working abroad, saying this was yet another blow to the weakest, aimed at filling the budget.
The Tax Administration is now targeting micro-enterprises and it's obvious that Finance Minister Zdravko Marić is trying to fill the state budget by hitting on the weakest, who could be the backbone of our economy, Bridge MP Nikola Grmoja said.
