Croatia

The Zagreb municipal court on Thursday released the well-known journalist Jasna Babic – who was taken into custody earlier this week for missing her own libel trial.Babic was released two days after being jailed on Tuesday, January 22nd, to ensure that she attended the libel trial against her initiated by …

The Office of the High Representative has failed to break the deadlock between Bosniaks and Croats over Mostar’s electoral system after calling a meeting of the main parties.A meeting in the ethnically divided southwestern city of Mostar on January 23 – called by the Office of the High Representative, OHR, …

In a landmark ruling, the court said the state was to blame for the killing of two elderly Serb civilians after the Croatian military operation ‘Storm’ in 1995.The judge in the town of Knin ruled that Croatia must pay 540,000 kuna (about 70,000 euro) to the children of Serb victims …

Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said the Croatian town of Gospic should reinstall a renovated statue of the celebrated ethnic Serb scientist that was destroyed by a blast in 1992.”I appeal to the Gospic authorities to find a decent place for that monument, which I consider to be the heart of …

A Zagreb court jailed reporter Jasna Babic for a month to ensure that she attends a libel trial against her initiated by a Croatian businessman.Police arrested Babic on Tuesday on the orders of Zagreb’s municipal court to make sure that she is present at her trial over the alleged libel …

Country is failing to promote its cut-price health services, a local expert in this field complains.Croatia has top class surgeons, advanced medical technology and, according to recent research by the portal CroMedicor, up to 65 per cent cheaper prices for plastic surgery than the EU. Breast enlargement operations in Croatia …

Croatian politicians have reacted sharply to the Slovenian foreign minister’s suggestion that Zagreb risks missing out on EU membership.Politicians hit back at foreign minister Karl Erjavec’s warning on Friday that “Croatia might never join the EU” if the Slovenian parliament doesn’t ratify the Croatian accession agreement before July 1 this …

Croatia’s leader Ivo Josipovic and Bosnia’s refugees minister Damir Ljubic both called for displaced Bosnians to go back to their pre-war homes.”I want everybody to go back to his home and integrate again into the society in which he lived before the war,” Josipovic said after meeting Ljubic in Zagreb …

Wednesday’s meeting between the Croatian and Serbian prime ministers raised hopes that counter-claims of genocide will be abandoned, a European Parliament rapporteur said.Zagreb and Belgrade should not ignore problems caused by their conflicts in the 1990s but try to solve them through dialogue, said the European Parliament’s rapporteur for Serbia, …

Croatia’s Zoran Milanovic will arrive in Belgrade on Wednesday on a visit aimed at improving the currently tense relations between the two countries.Milanovic will meet his counterpart, Ivica Dacic, on his first official visit to Belgrade, after ties deteriorated following the election of a new government in Serbia last year. …