Serbian FM Dacic:Croat president’s Storm statements “insolence”
BELGRADE, 05. AUG. 2016 – Serbian FMIvica Dacic described Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic’s statement about Operation Storm’s “ethically clean” nature that had “unburdened Serbs” as...
View ArticleCroatia-Serbia:Operation Storm anniversary at time of strained relations
BELGRADE, 04. AUG. 2016 – The 21st anniversary of the start of Croatia’s military-police Operation Storm in Serbs inhabited Croatian region of Krajina comes at a time of extremely strained relations...
View ArticleCroatian Politicians Celebrate Operation Storm
KNIN, 05. AUG. 2016 (BIN) – Croatian politicians at the annual Victory Day commemoration in the southern town of Knin were united in praising their army’s defeat of rebel Serb forces in Operation Storm...
View ArticleStatue of Croatian Ustasha terrorist Diplomat’s Killer Given Bloody Hand
ZAGREB, 08. AUG. 2016 – Unknown “artists” painted one hand and leg of the monument unveiled recently to Nazi Ustasha terrorist Miro Baresic in Drage, Croatia, has been painted red, Croatian media are...
View ArticleCroatian Church Urges Right-Wing Election Win
ZAGREB, 23. AUG. 2016 – The Croatian Catholic Church in Croatia is getting involved in the upcoming elections because it fears that the main centre-right party – the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ –...
View ArticlePolitico:Dacic calls Croatia “EU’s biggest disgrace”
BRUSSELS/BELGRADE, 23. AUG. 2016 – Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic accused Croatia of “continuing with provocations and threats.” Dacic said his Croatian counterpart Miro Kovac was also continuing...
View ArticleCroatia Ex-PM’s ‘Chaotic Bosnia’ Comments Spark Debate
SARAJEVO, 25. AUG. 2016 – Heated debate erupted on social media after audio was leaked of Croatian Social Democratic Party leader Zoran Milanovic saying that Bosnia and Herzegovina was a chaotic state,...
View ArticleSerbian president reacts, tells Croatia: “Stop this”
BELGRADE, 25. AUG. 2016 – Croatian SDP leader and ex-PM Zoran Milanovic’s comment about Serbs being “a small nation, a handful of miserable people” is reminiscent of what the former chief of the World...
View ArticleTHE ECONOMIST/ Croatian stagnation
ZAGREB, 27. Aug. 2016 – Pining for the partisans-Where politics are stuck in the 1980s, if not the 1940s. KOKI the parrot is a shrewd old bird. He used to belong to Marshal Josip Tito, Yugoslavia’s...
View ArticleEU’s Juncker response to the Serbian PM letter
BRUSSELS, 01. SEPT. 2016 – “We can confirm that President(of the European Commission Jean-Claude) Juncker sent a reply letter to Prime Minister of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, where he expressed his...
View ArticleVucic “respects Juncker,” but “can’t stand false symmetries”
BELGRADE, 01.SEPT. 2016 – Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said that he “does not want to talk” about the European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker response to his letter regarding...
View ArticleOpposition Leader’s Election Campaign Tirades Leave Croats Bemused
ZAGREB, 01. SEPT. 2016 – Croation opposition leader Zoran Milanovic’s high personal attacks on his main rival, HDZ’s Andrej Plenkovic, look like a pitch for votes outside his centre-left bloc – but...
View ArticleTHE ECONOMIST/ Croatian stagnation
ZAGREB, 27. Aug. 2016 – Pining for the partisans-Where politics are stuck in the 1980s, if not the 1940s. KOKI the parrot is a shrewd old bird. He used to belong to Marshal Josip Tito, Yugoslavia’s...
View ArticleCROAT FM KOVAC: BLAMING WILL NOT GET SERBIA ANYWHERE
ZAGREB, 01. SEPT. 2016 – Outgoing Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Miro Kovac stated that a letter from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic...
View ArticleProsecution confirms: Serbia arrests Croatia’s suspected spy
BELGRADE, 03. SEPT. 2016 – The Serbian Security Information Agency (BIA) has arrested a foreign intelligence officer in Belgrade, Serbian state prosecution confirmed.The Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti...
View ArticleSerbia:Man suspected of spying for Croatia in plea bargain
BELGRADE, 05. SEPT. 2016 – A man arrested on suspicion that he spied for Croatia has reached a plea bargain with the Serbian Prosecution. Serbia’s state broadcaster RTS reported this, naming the...
View ArticleSerbia Jails ’Croatian Spy’ for Three Years
BELGRADE, 06. SEPT. 2016 – Cedo Colovic, a former wartime fighter who reportedly has both Croatian and Serbian citizenship, admitted being involved in espionage for Croatia and was sentenced to three...
View ArticleCroatia holds snap election but fears more deadlock
ZAGREB, 09. SEPT. 2016 (By EurActiv.com with AFP) – Former prime minister Zoran Milanović is unlikely to perform strongly enough to win an absolute majority. Croatia votes on September 11 in an early...
View ArticlePatriarch Bartholomew says Jasenovac new martyrs are heroes and saints of...
JASENOVAC, CROATIA, 10. SEPT. 2016 – Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople said while officiating the liturgy in the Orthodox Church in Jasenovac that ancient Serb Orthodox and Jasenovac new...
View ArticleHDZ Looks to Form Croatia Govt After Surprise Win
ZAGREB, 12. SEPT. 2016 – Croatia’s main centre-right party, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, has won most seats in the parliamentary elections and looks set to form a new government with the...
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