After last week's official meeting between Angela Merkel and Jadranka Kosor, Germany has once again become one of Croatia's most important political and economic allies. There are three areas in which Jadranka Kosor won the support of the German head of government. First, the war on corruption; second, the strengthening of the economic ties between the two countries; and third, Germany will push to speed up Croatian negotiations for accession to the European Union. 

If the investigations and judicial proceedings against top-ranking officials and business people in Croatia continues, the German government will call on its companies to invest in Croatia, and also lobby for the speediest possible completion of the negotiations with the European Union, it was announced at the Merkel-Kosor meeting. During the closed part of the meeting Angela Merkel several times explicitly supported Jadranka Kosor's anti-corruption policy.