Cock a doodle do?

the economist
Nov 6th 2011, 12:01 by T.J.

AN EXTRAORDINARY week or so in Croatia. Parliament has been dissolved and on October 31st President Ivo Josipovic called elections for December 4th. It was announced that ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) is being investigated for corruption. Ivo Sanader, the former head of the HDZ and prime minister went on trial and independent Croatia’s first interior minister was arrested on charges of murders allegedly committed in 1945. (He denies all wrongdoing)....more....
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http://www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2011/11/croatia

Croatian PM Receives EU Accession Treaty

balkan insight
21 SEP 2011 / 09:12

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk officially delivered Croatia's EU accession treaty text to the head of the Croatian government, prime minister Jadranka Kosor, at a ceremony in Zagreb on the weekend.

Sofia Echo

"The great effort of the Croatians, and your government will pay off in the future. I say this as a Pole, who, like my compatriots, has been benefiting for years from the fact that Europe is united, and we are a part of it," Tusk said after the ceremony, as quoted by the Polish EU presidency website....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/croatian-pm-receives-eu-accession-treaty

FM warns against bias in reporting about EU accession treaty

tportal.hr
ACCESSION TREATY
20.09.2011 15:25

Author: Radio.net
Croatia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic said in Zagreb on Tuesday that "the superficial and ill-intended analyses and politicking" by some media about Croatia's EU accession was intolerable....more..
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http://daily.tportal.hr/149475/Minister-warns-against-bias-in-reporting-about-EU-accession-treaty.html

Kosor comments on publishing of EU accession treaty

tportal.hr
ACCESSION TREATY
20.09.2011 14:46

Author: Radio.net
Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Tuesday that the government was interested in making public as soon as possible Croatia's EU accession treaty, dismissing claims by a Croatian daily that the treaty envisaged the restriction of the rights of Homeland War veterans...more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/149464/Kosor-on-publishing-of-EU-accession-treaty-veterans-rights.html

Croatia: another step closer to the EU

se times
20/09/2011

Even though the country now has a draft of its EU accession treaty, reforms must continue.
By Natasa Radic for Southeast European Times in Zagreb -- 20/09/11
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk arrived in Zagreb on Saturday (September 17th) to bring the draft of the EU accession treaty to Croatia. The document will be signed in December, opening the way for Croatia to become a full EU member in 2013....more...
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http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/features/2011/09/20/feature-02

From Zagreb with Love: On the Bounded Rationality of Euroskepticism and Europhilia in Croatia

balkan analysis
September 12, 2011

By Maja Šoštarić
When asked whether they trust European Union institutions, only 7% of Croats respond that they have a lot of confidence, while a meager 35% would admit that they trust the EU to some extent, reported the Gallup Balkan Monitor 2010. By the same token, as the Eurobarometer 74 reveals, only 9% of Croats would answer positively if asked whether they trust their own government. Moreover, only 9% have confidence in the national parliament, only one-fifth trust the judiciary, and a miserly 5% find the political parties in Croatia trustworthy....more...
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http://www.balkanalysis.com/croatia/2011/09/12/from-zagreb-with-love-on-the-bounded-rationality-of-euroskepticism-and-europhilia-in-croatia/

Croatian ex-Premier Ivo Sanader charged with corruption

bbc news
31 August 2011, Last updated 16:55 GMT
The authorities in Croatia have charged former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader with corruption over a loan he negotiated in 1995.

He is alleged to have received a kickback worth nearly $695,000 (£425,000; 480,000 euros) for the loan from the Austrian bank Hypo.

He is said to have facilitated Hypo's entry into the Croatian market....more...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14733763

Merkel campaigns for regional stability in Croatia, Serbia

deutsche welle
BALKANS

23.08.2011
During a visit to Croatia, German Chancellor Angela Merkel praised the country as an economic and political role model for nations in the politically troubled Balkan region. On Tuesday, she continues her tour in Serbia.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has praised Croatia as a role model for the politically troubled Balkan region and called on Zagreb to play a larger role in helping to resolve the ongoing border dispute between Serbia and Kosovo and ethnic tensions in Bosnia....more...
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http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,15336008,00.html

Merkel Set To Arrive In Croatia For Two-Day Balkan Trip

radio free europe

August 22, 2011

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is arriving in Croatia on August 22 for the start of a two-day Balkan visit.
She will meet top Croatian leaders today and is set to visit Serbia on August 23....more...
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http://www.rferl.org/content/merkel_set_to_arrive_in_croatia_for_two_day_balkan_trip/24304287.html

Vatican and Croatia dispute over Adriatic monastery

telegraph

Croatia

A dispute over the ownership of a historic monastery on the Adriatic coast is causing bad blood between Croatia and the Vatican.

By Nick Squires, Rome11:16PM BST 04 Aug 2011

The monastery, in the town of Dajla on the coast of Croatia, was once owned by Italy's Benedictine order of monks.
It lies in the region of Istria, which was once part of Italy but was ceded to the then Yugoslavia after the Second World War.....
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/croatia/8682455/Vatican-and-Croatia-dispute-over-Adriatic-monastery.html

Croatian prime minister hails convicted war crimes generals

telegraph
Croatia
Jadranka Kosor, the Croatian prime minister, has hailed two ex-generals jailed by a UN war crimes court for their role in the offensive that ended the 1991-1995 Croatian war on the operation's anniversary.

8:48PM BST 05 Aug 2011


"A special greeting I send to all Croatian veterans, all of Croatia's generals and particularly to generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac," Kosor said in the southern town of Knin at a ceremony marking the anniversary of Operation Storm, broadcast live by national television....more...
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/croatia/8684853/Croatian-prime-minister-hails-convicted-war-crimes-generals.html

Ivo Sanader, Croatia's ex-PM, extradited from Austria

bbc news
19 July 2011 Last updated at 11:48 GMT
Croatia has put its former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader behind bars after his night-time extradition from Austria.
He is due to be questioned this week over allegations of corruption and abuse of power....more...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14202739

Croatia on the Verge of EU Membership: Interview with Andrej Plenković

balkan analysis

July 27, 2011

In this new interview for Balkanalysis.com, Croatia editor Ante Raić gets the informed views of Andrej Plenković, state secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, on issues surrounding Croatia’s accession to the European Union. The interview touches one everything from currency questions, the country’s lengthy border and entrance into the Schengen Zone to the current and expected level of public support for joining the bloc, in anticipation of a popular referendum on the country’s EU membership.
Andrej Plenković has served as state secretary in the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration since April 2010. A graduate of the Faculty of Law in Zagreb, he also completed diplomatic school at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2002, he also received an MSc in international public and private law at the Faculty of Law....more...
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http://www.balkanalysis.com/croatia/2011/07/27/croatia-on-the-verge-of-eu-membership-interview-with-andrej-plenkovic/

Kosor says opposition fears HDZ's election victory

tportal.hr

ELECTIONS

23.07.2011 16:19

Author: Radio.net
Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Saturday that the statement by the opposition coalition led by the Social Democratic Party (SDP) that none of them would form a post-election coalition with the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) showed that they feared the HDZ's election victory....more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/139963/Kosor-says-opposition-fears-HDZ-s-election-victory.html

Croatian gov't wants Hadzic extradited to Croatia

tportal.hr
WAR CRIMES
21.07.2011 13:41

Author: Radio.net
The Croatian government on Thursday called upon the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and the Ministry of Justice to take all the necessary steps within their authority and within the existing rules on cooperation with the Hague tribunal to take charge of the trial of Goran Hadzic for war crimes and other serious crimes committed in Croatia and to ensure that he served two prison sentences that had been imposed on him in his absence by Croatian courts....more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/139613/Croatian-gov-t-wants-Hadzic-extradited-to-Croatia.html

Milanovic: Croatia can no longer endure new debt

tportal.hr

CROATIA'S DEBT

21.07.2011 18:57

Author: Radio.net
Asked by the press to comment on the government's decision to issue new bonds increasing Croatia's debt by about HRK 5.8 billion, Social Democratic Party (SDP) president Zoran Milanovic said on Thursday this practice should stop, as Croatia could no longer endure it....more....
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http://daily.tportal.hr/139692/Milanovic-Croatia-can-no-longer-endure-new-debt.html

Sanader declines to answer prosecutor's questions

tportal.hr
SANADER CASE
21.07.2011 19:05

Author: Radio.net
At his first appearance before anti-corruption agency USKOK investigators, former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader denied all accusations against him in the Fimi Media case, Sanader's lawyers told reporters on Thursday after a two-hour interrogation held in the Remetinec prison, adding that Sanader would continue presenting his defence on Wednesday when he is expected to answer to bribe-taking charges in the Hypo bank case, in which he is suspected of receiving a 3.5 million kuna commission from the bank in exchange for selecting the Austrian bank to grant a loan to Croatia...more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/139694/Sanader-declines-to-answer-prosecutor-s-questions.html

Croatia: Hadzic Arrest ‘Good For Justice’

balkan insight
20 JUL 2011 / 14:37

Zagreb welcomes suspect’s arrest and expresses hopes that a future trial will shed light on the fate of victims of war who remain missing.

Croatia’s President, Ivo Josipovic, welcomed the arrest of the former president of self–proclaimed Republika Srpska Krajina, RSK, Goran Hadzic, saying that “justice is slow, but achievable”....more....
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/croatia-hadzic-arrest-good-for-justice

Croatian Interior Minister applauds Hadzic's arrest

tportal.hr
WAR CRIMES
20.07.2011 13:21

Author: Radio.net
Croatian Interior Minister Tomislav Karamarko on Wednesday expressed satisfaction with the arrest of war crimes fugitive Goran Hadzic and the fact that he will finally face justice....more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/139426/Croatian-Interior-Minister-applauds-Hadzic-s-arrest.html

Croatia: Generals "in death threats to journalist"

b92.net
REGION

WEDNESDAY 20.07.2011
12:03
SOURCE: SEEMO

VIENNA -- A regional media organization has demanded that Croatia investigate death threats allegedly made by top military officials against a Croatian journalist.

The South East Europe Media Organization (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), thus joined the Croatian Journalists Association (HND), who demanded that their country's prosecution probe threats received by journalist Drago Hedl.....more...
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http://www.b92.net/eng/news/region-article.php?yyyy=2011&mm=07&dd=20&nav_id=75536