Croatia

The trial against former Defence Minister Berislav Roncevic and his assistant, Ivo Bacic, began in a Zagreb court Friday (January 29th). The anti-corruption office, USKOK, charged them in late October with abuse of power over a 2004 procurement deal involving military trucks. Prosecutors say the contract cost the state millions …

Persons who are convicted in Bosnia and Herzegovina will no longer be able to escape to neighbouring countries, and criminals who flee to Bosnia will not be able to dodge justice, according to an agreement adopted on Thursday. The agreement was adopted by the Bosnian tripartite Presidency on January 28 …

The trail of former Republic of Srpska president Radovan Karadžić will restart on March 1, according to presiding Judge O-Gon Kwon. The decision for continuing the process was also an answer to the verbal demand of Karadžić, who is defending himself, to postpone the trial again, claiming that he has …

70.5% of Kosovo citizens think the declaration of the independence is a good decision while 63.8% of Serbs think they will never recognize Kosovo’s independence.  9.7% of the Serbs think Serbia will recognize Kosovo but it will not happen in the next five years.

Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz says that Croatia’s cooperation regarding a request for military documents is yet to produce desired results. The Hague prosecution’s request pertains to artillery log from the 1995 military and police onslaught against the country’s Serb areas, known as “Operation Storm”. Addressing the European Parliament foreign …

Regional Policy Commissioner Paweł Samecki urged Croatian authorities to speed up the preparations for usage of the pre-accession EU funds, which will enable Croatia to withdraw 2.2 billion euros. He said that Croatia will be able to withdraw about 2.2 billion euros, during the first two years of its EU …

Croatia wrote a letter to the UN Security Council stating that Serbian President Boris Tadić’s address regarding this country was “unfounded.” Croatia believes that Tadić “used the Kosovo debate” to make an “unfounded response” to outgoing Croat President Stjepan Mesić’s statements that he would intervene militarily against Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee will discuss the draft-resolution regarding Croatia’s progress towards EU on Tuesday. The Committee is due to discuss the 50 amendments submitted by the EP rapporteur for Hannes Swoboda. The committee members will vote on Wednesday. Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz will address the Committee, before the …

Bosnian Serb leaders voiced their intention to hold a census in the Serb dominated part of the country Republika Srpska following last week’s failure by the country’s central parliament to pass a law that would open the way for a nationwide census in 2011. “Republika Srpska’s government has submitted a …

The border arbitration agreement signed by Slovenian and Croatian prime ministers in Stockholm on 4 November will be put to review before Slovenia’s highest court on Thursday.