Croatia

The Muslim-Croat Federation entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina is today marking Independence Day, a holiday in that part of Bosnia. On March 1, 1992, 64 percent of those who took part in a referendum in then Yugoslav republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina

The slow EU integration of the whole region and the effects of the global economic crisis explain the current political and economic situation throughout the Balkans, BiH Presidency

Croatia’s EU membership negotiations could be completed in the first half of 2011 provided Zagreb pushes ahead with reform, according to a resolution adopted by Parliament on Wednesday. Yet the biggest challenge may be “selling” the benefits of EU membership to a sceptical Croatian population, the EP press service announced.

Serbian War Crimes Prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said on Monday (February 14th) he will meet with prosecutors from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Croatia to discuss the case of Croatian war veteran Tihomir Purda. Purda was arrested in early January at the border between Croatia and BiH based on a Serbian …

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Friday (February 11th) slammed the lack of political will in Croatia to prosecute war crimes committed during the 1991-1995 conflict. The organisation’s investigator for

Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said on Tuesday (February 8th) that Croatia may receive a date for wrapping up its EU negotiations in April. After talks

Amnesty International urged European Union officials to insist that Croatian authorities prosecute all war crimes committed during the 1990s. The EU was also urged to consider AI’s concerns when deciding whether to close the chapter on the judiciary and fundamental rights in Croatia’s accession talks, Program

Members of BiH’s tripartite presidency kick off a two-day visit in Zagreb on Monday (January 31st). Nebojsa Radmanovic, Bakir Izetbegovic and Zeljko Komsic will meet with President Ivo Josipovic, Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor and Parliament Speaker Luka Bebic. This is the first visit to Croatia by BiH presidency members in …

President Traian Basescu on Friday (January 28th) expressed his country’s full support for Croatia’s EU accession. “There should not be any kind of interpretation concerning our position on Croatia’s accession to the EU,” Basescu told Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor, who was making a one-day official visit to Bucharest.

About 1,500 people gathered in the eastern town of Vukovar on Saturday (January 29th) to protest the arrest in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) of a Croat war