Croatia

Following his visit to Croatia, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon praised the country’s contribution to the global peace and offered his congratulations on its forthcoming EU accession.Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon, who is currently touring the region, met Croatia’s President Ivo Josipovic on the northern island of Brijuni …

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will start a six-day tour of the Western Balkans on Friday. He will visit all countries created after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, with July 23 reserved for Serbia.

Right-wing opposition party says Croatia’s EU accession will affect Polish interests – and so needs to be ratified in parliament by a two-thirds majority.Opposition nationalists in Poland are attempting to set conditions on Croatia’s EU accession, on the grounds that Croatian membership will affect Poland’s influence and its share of …

Croatian parliament, the Sabor, paid tribute to the Srebrenica victims on Tuesday with a minute of silence and a speech by a representative of Bosniak community in Croatia.”The Srebrenica tragedy is a warning from history, and we have to cry: ‘Never again'”, said Josip Leko, the vice speaker of parliament, …

Former Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor testified on Tuesday at the corruption trial of her own party, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, and of its previous leader, Ivo Sanader, denying all knowledge of so-called party slush funds.Kosor was among dozens of witnessess to testify in the biggest case in Croatian legal …

Twenty eight victims of Operation Flash, a Croatian military campaign conducted in May 1995, were exhumed last week in western Slavonia, Croatia.According to the Croatian government’s Administration for Imprisoned and Missing Persons, the remains were exhumed between June 26 and 29 in the village of Donji Rajic in western Slavonia. …

Croatia’s 2012 National Happiness Index shows most Croats feel no optimism about their prospects and have no faith in the government or political parties.As many as 60 per cent of the Croatians cannot see any future for themselves and for their families, while 75 per cent of respondents do not …

Montenegro and Croatia signed a partnership agreement, concluding the meeting on the optimistic note that regional co-operation will improve once the post-election atmosphere in Serbia “calms down“.

Croatian President Ivo Josipovic said on Tuesday in Vukovar that his country seeks to create good relations with every country, and that includes Serbia. “I hope that the positions of newly elected Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić will change. We have made significant progress in relations in the past two to …

Croatian and Bosnian officials on April 24 exchanged views on a range of outstanding issues, ranging from the Neum corridor to the port of Ploce and EU-standard border checkpoints. Croatian officials on Tuesday presented Bosnia’s Foreign Ministry