Patrushev: Croatia one of Russia’s main EU partners

Croatia is one of Russia’s “fundamental partners in the EU”, said Dmitry Patrushev after the tenth intergovernmental Croatian-Russian commission for economic, scientific and technical cooperation. Dmitry Patrushev is the son of Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of the Security Council of Russia and a close associate of President Vladimir Putin.

Patrushev said Russia and Croatia cooperated most in energy, infrastructure, healthcare, and education and that the potential to cooperate in agriculture was high.

According to the Croatian Chamber of Economy, trade between Croatia and the Russian Federation increased from $160 million in the first half of 2020 to $291 million in the first six months of 2021.

Patrushev said they also talked about possible cooperation in fighting the pandemic and agreed that state institutions should work on the mutual recognition of vaccination certificates.

(Željko Trkanjec | EURACTIV.hr)