“If we are not there, who will be there?” she said in an exclusive interview with Euronews.
“We understand that there is China, there is Russia, there are countries that have an interest in this part of the world, but Europe wants to be present,” she added. “We are the biggest payers to these [southern Mediterranean] countries. We don’t [just] want to be payers, we also want to be players,” the Croatian politician said.
