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...
View ArticleCroatian 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...
View ArticleCroatia: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...
View ArticleCroatia: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...
View ArticleCroatian 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...
View ArticleProducts 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...
View ArticleFM 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...
View ArticleCROATIAN 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...
View ArticleSerbian 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...
View ArticleCroatia: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,...
View ArticleCroatia’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...
View ArticleCroatia: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...
View ArticlePresident 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...
View ArticleEuropean 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...
View ArticleAdriatic-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...
View ArticleCroatia 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...
View ArticlePro-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...
View ArticleCroatian 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...
View ArticleCroatia 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...
View ArticleCroatian 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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