Croatia

Croatia’s Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Friday (October 15th) that parliamentary elections will be held at the end of 2011, as previously announced. She was refuting suggestions by some opposition parties that the

Croatia and neighbour Slovenia have found a solution to the last major bilateral obstacle that was blocking Zagreb’s EU entry talks — cross-border banking access, Slovenia’s

UN war crimes tribunal chief prosecutor Serge Brammertz will visit Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Croatia next week and then Serbia in November, the court announced on Wednesday (October 13th). Brammertz will be discussing co-operation with the tribunal, ahead of his December progress report to the UN regarding countries in …

The opposition Croatian People’s Party (HNS) and the Croatian Pensioners’ Party (HSU) will run as a coalition in the general elections scheduled for November 2011. This is following an agreement signed by their

Croat President Ivo Josipović attended the unveiling of a memorial for nine elderly Serb men killed in late September 1995 in the village of Varivode near Knin. Their murder happened almost two months after the military Operation Storm against these Serb areas of Croatia.

Croatian politician and former high ranking army officer Branimir Glavaš was arrested in Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday. Glavaš holds both Croatian and Bosnian citizenships, and was found guilty and sentenced to eight years in prison in Zagreb for 1991 war crimes committed against Croatia’s ethnic Serb civilians.

Croatia has given up hope of completing European Union accession negotiations by the end of the year, the Croatian Times has reported. Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor had suggested two weeks ago that the talks would be completed by the end of 2010, or at the latest, the beginning of …

Croatia — Vesna Pusic, president of parliament’s committee for monitoring EU accession negotiations, says Croatia could wrap up its talks with Brussels by June 2011. After a committee meeting Tuesday

Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor reiterated on Monday (September 6th) the government’s position that it will not resort to assistance from the IMF in bringing public finances under

European Parliament rapporteur for Croatia Hannes Swoboda is optimistic the country will be able to wrap up its EU accession talks by next spring, local media reported on Sunday