Croatia contemplates future EU perks of power

As Croatia gets closer to joining the EU, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor last week unveiled her country's potential voting quotas as a future EU member as well as its likely number of seats in the European Parliament, the HINA agency reported. As a full-time EU member, Croatia will boast one commissioner and 12 seats in the European Parliament, Kosor said. This is one less than Slovakia and the same as Lithuania and Ireland.
Meanwhile, Zagreb would command seven votes in the Council of Ministers, which represents the governments of the 27 EU member states. The country will also have one judge at both the European Court of Justice and the Court of Auditors, which oversee the bloc's institutions.
There are also nine seats reserved for the Western Balkan state in lower-level EU consultative bodies – the Committee of the Regions and the Economic and Social Committee.
"Croatian will become an official EU language," Kosor said, calling on all actors to complete the necessary work for accession "as soon as possible".

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