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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...

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Croatia-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...

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Croatian 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...

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Statue 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...

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Croatian 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 –...

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Politico: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...

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Croatia 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,...

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Serbian 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...

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THE 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...

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EU’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...

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Vucic “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...

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Opposition 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...

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THE 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...

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CROAT 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...

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Prosecution 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...

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Serbia: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...

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Serbia 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...

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Croatia 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...

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Patriarch 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...

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HDZ 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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