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Belgrade blasts Croatian minister’s “warmongering” statement

BELGRADE, 08. JAN. 2015 – Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has described as “scandalous and warmongering” a statement made on Tuesday by Croatia’s outgoing defense minister. Ante Kotromanic said...

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Croatian minister: Top Serbian officials “champions of wars”

ZAGREB, 13. JAN. 2015 – The defense minister in Croatia’s technical government has “again sent a message to Serbian officials,” the Beta agency is reporting. Belgrade last week denounced Ante...

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Croatia:MOST Party Has Put the Church in Power

ZAGREB, 14.JAN. 2015 – The so-called third way in politics has always been more Catholic than most voters realized – and has got its way with a HDZ and Church-run government. “These parliamentary...

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Croatia:Controversial minister resigns

ZAGREB, 29. JAN. 2016 – Mijo Crnoja, the minister for veteran affairs in the new Croatian government, has resigned six days after his appointment amid allegations of tax irregularities. He earlier...

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Croatian cabinet has “Fascist Ustasha admirer”, Nazi hunter protests

ZAGREB, 03. FEB. 2016 – Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Israel Office Director Efraim Zuroff has announced he would send an official protest to the Croatian government.nIt concerns the recent appointment of...

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Products sold in EU’s East “less good, and more expensive”

ZAGREB, 09. FEB. 2016 – Fish sticks, meat dishes, spreads and canned tuna top the list of the products suspected of having higher quality in the “old” part of the EU than in the East.This is according...

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FM KOVAC: CROATIA SUPPORTS ITS NEIGHBORS EN ROUTE TO THE EU

ZAGREB, BERLIN, 08. FEB. 2016 – Croatian Foreign Minister Miro Kovac stated in Berlin that Zagreb wanted good relations with its neighbors and supported their integration in the EU. “We want good...

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CROATIAN FM: WE WILL BE FAIR IN SUPPORT TO REGION EN ROUTE TO EU

ZAGREB, 11. FEB. 2016 – New Croatian Minister of Foreign Affairs Miro Kovac pointed out that Croatia will support all countries in the region seeking to join the EU, but will also insist on the meeting...

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Serbian TV Pulls Film on Croatian ‘Operation Storm’ Murders

ZAGREB, BELGRADE, 15. MAR. 2016 -The Serbian national broadcaster removed a documentary about a war crime committed against Serbian population during the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm in 1995 from...

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Croatia:Ukraine “ready to buy” controversial overhaul MiGs

ZAGREB, 23. MAR. 2016 – Ukraine supports the investigation launched in Croatia into the overhaul of a number of its MiG-21 jets in Ukraine. This was the reaction of Ukraine’s ambassador in Zagreb,...

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Croatia’s ‘Banal’ Fascism on Display at Israel Match

ZAGREB, 25. MAR. 2016 -The pro nazi Ustasa chant heard at football match Croatia-Israel, which the PM attended and the media ignored, is the result of the long-term ‘normalisation’ of once outlawed...

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Croatia:Serb and Jewish associations to boycott Jasenovac death camp...

ZAGREB, 10. APR. 2016 – After the coordinating body of Jewish communities said they would boycott this year’s commemoration of the victims of the Jasenovac WWII concentration camp on April 22, the Serb...

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President of Croatia: Ustasha regime was a criminal regime

ZAGREB, 12. APR. 2016 – President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic underlined after talks with Nicholas Dean, US Department of State Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues she was worried about intensifying...

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European Commission rejects Croatia’s arguments for blocking Serbia’s EU path

ZAGREB, 14. APR. 2016 – The EC has rejected Croatian demands in the dispute with Serbia, because of which Croatia blocked the opening of a chapter in Serbia’s EU accession talks. This has been reported...

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Adriatic-Ionian Initiative: Opening of new migrant route must be prevented

SPLIT, 16. APR. 2016 – Croatian Parliament Speaker Zeljko Reiner and Foreign Minister Miro Kovac said in the southern coastal city of Split that members of the Adriatic-Ionian Initiative should...

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Croatia Govt Criticised at WWII Death Camp Commemoration

ZAGREB, 24. APR. 2016 – Anti-fascists held an alternative memorial for victims of the Ustasha Jasenovac concentration camp after boycotting the state ceremony, accusing officials of downplaying the...

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Pro-Nazi nostalgia flourishes under new Croatia government

ZAGREB, 29 APR. 2016 By EurActiv.com with AFP – US trained neo-Nazi Croatians in Ukraine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NShunCiLhyA) – “Nostalgia” for a pro-Nazi past, spurning of ethnic minorities...

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Croatian Culture Minister Visits Controversial 1990s neo-Nazi Memorial

ZAGREB, 20. MAY 2016 – Croatian Culture minister Zlatko Hasanbegovic visited a memorial to a 1990s unit named after a WWII Nazi-allied commander, saying it was only controversial to people who don’t...

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Croatia gives consent to open new chapter in EU-Serbia accession talks

BRUSSELS, 01. JUN 2016 – Croatia has officially consented to the opening of Chapter 23 in Serbia’s EU accession talks, ensuring a consensus within the EU on the matter. Ambassadors of EU member states...

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Croatian Govt Threatened as Ruling Coalition Withers

ZAGREB, 07. JUNE 2016 – Croatia plunged into its biggest political crisis in decades after squabbling leaders of the two former coalition partners refused to resign from their ministerial positions as...

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