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Czech candidate for EU Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule considers Croatia will close the EU accession talks in 2010. According to Fule his main talks will be each future expansion to be fell prepared. “The judicial reforms and the main rights are big challenge for Croatia,” Fule noted.
Read More »Tadic Slams Mesic for Serb Killer Sentence
Relations between Serbia and Croatia reached another critical juncture after Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on Thursday decreased by one year a jail sentence of a convicted war criminal, who took part in the executions of ethnic Serb civilians in the Pakracka Poljana region of western Slavonia in late 1991. Serbian …
Read More »Kosovo Honors Croatia’s Mesic
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic during his visit to Kosovo on Friday was honored by the Kosovo’s President with the “Golden Medal of Independence”, while Pristina declared him an honourary citizen. During the meeting with his Kosovar counterpart Fatmir Sejdiu, Mesic said the award is the highest the newest state in …
Read More »Croatia Prepares for Presidential Runoff
Croatians will vote in a presidential runoff election this Sunday, which polls and analysts indicate will be won by jurist and classical music composer Ivo Josipovic of the main opposition Social Democratic Party, SDP. Josipovic, who has campaigned under the promise of “new justice” for Croatia, will face populist independent candidate …
Read More »Stjepan Mesic to visit Kosovo
Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesic sets off for a visit to Kosovo. At the end of December he accepted the letters credential of the Kosovan ambassador to Zagreb Valdet Sadiku and said he would visit Kosovo a day after Orthodox Christmas to avoid offending Serbian President Boris Tadic. The Serbian …
Read More »Croatia’s Kosor insists ruling coalition is stable
Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor reassured her government’s coalition partners that the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) is stable and stronger than ever. This follows the expulsion of former prime minister and honorary party president Ivo Sanader, which sparked fears of a split in the ruling party. Sanader was expelled from the …
Read More »OHR in warning over RS independence referendum
The Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia says a referendum on independence of the Republic of Srpska (RS) would violate the Dayton agreement. The 1992-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina ended with the peace deal, and organized the country into two entities: the Serb RS, and the Muslim-Croat Federation. “The …
Read More »Mesić shortens Serb killer’s sentence
Outgoing Croatian President Stjepan Mesić has decided to shorten prison time of Siniša Rimac by one year. Rimac was sentenced to eight years in prison when Croatia’s Supreme Court ruled that he personally took part in the executions of ethnic Serb civilians in the Pakračka Poljana region of western Slavonia …
Read More »“ICJ to consider lawsuits in single proceeding” – Serbian international law expert
Serbian international law expert Tibor Varadi says the ICJ will “probably consider Croatia’s genocide lawsuit against Serbia and Serbia’s countersuit in the same proceedings”. “I think the most rational and logical thing is to have joint proceedings, because the suits deal with the same period and the same series of …
Read More »Croatian Ruling Party Expels Former Prime Minister
Former Croatian Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader, has been expelled from the country’s ruling conservative party, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, a day after he criticised his successor and announced that he was returning to politics. “The presidency of the Croatian Democratic Union …has decided to expel Ivo Sanader from the …
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