Croatia protests show failure of political promise

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Economic slump and institutionalised corruption have invited anti-capitalist sentiments for the first time since socialism

Toni Prug

guardian.co.uk, Saturday 2 April 2011 14.00 BST

Twenty years after declared independence and its first multi-party elections, after ecstatic promises of prosperity and freedom under parliamentary capitalism, Croatia finds itself in the midst of a wave of mass protests with news that unemployment is forecast to rise to 20% at the end of March....more...

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