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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Cacic: 'I have been telling the truth throughout this process'

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CAR ACCIDENT HEARING

20.09.2011 18:46

Author: Radio.net
The head of the Croatian People's Party (HNS), Radimir Cacic, issued a statement on Tuesday after attending the first hearing before a local court in Kaposvar, Hungary, for a fatal traffic accident he had caused last year....more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/149517/Cacic-I-have-been-telling-the-truth-throughout-this-process.html

Croatian Politician Relives Tragic Car Accident

balkan insight
20 SEP 2011 / 16:40

Croatian politician Radimir Cacic, one of the heads of Croatia’s opposition coalition, tried on Tuesday to explain the circumstances of a car accident in Hungary when two persons died in January last year.

Croatian Times

"I wasn't driving too fast. Visibility was bad," the president of the Croatian People's Party (HNS) Radimir Cacic said at the trial in the Municipal Court in the Hungarian town of Macala....more...
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http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/croatian-politician-describes-tragic-car-accident

SDP, HNS, IDS, HSU - joint election HQ for Constituency No. 8

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COALITION

23.07.2011 16:40

Author: Radio.net
The coalition of four opposition parties -- the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the Croatian People's Party (HNS), the Istrian Democratic Party (IDS) and the Croatian Pensioners' Party (HSU) -- decided at a meeting in Golubinjak Park Forest outside Delnice on Saturday to set up a joint election headquarters for Constituency No. 8, which covers Istria County and the Rijeka region....more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/139965/SDP-HNS-IDS-HSU-joint-election-HQ-for-Constituency-No-8.html

Milanovic: Croatia can no longer endure new debt

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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

Milanovic: Election date shouldn't be defined by someone's personal ambition

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16.07.2011 15:53

Author: Radio.net
The president of the strongest Opposition party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Zoran Milanovic, said on Saturday that it was not good for Croatia to have its citizens go to the polls only at the end of the year, stressing that the election date should not be defined by someone's personal ambition, but by the interests of the state and its citizens....more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/138847/Milanovic-Election-date-shouldn-t-be-defined-by-someone-s-personal-ambition.html

SDP, HNS criticise proposed election date

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16.07.2011 00:14

Author: Radio.net
The president of the strongest Opposition party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Zoran Milanovic, said on Friday that the SDP was ready for elections and that it would win regardless of when they would be held, stressing however that the date the ruling coalition set today was disputable from the constitutional point of view and that it was not good given the referendum on Croatia's EU entry....more....
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http://daily.tportal.hr/138820/SDP-HNS-criticise-proposed-election-date.html

HSP criticises government

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SERVILE MENTALITY
16.05.2011 15:55

Author: Radio.net

The head of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), Daniel Srb, said at a press conference in Zagreb on Monday that the fact that the government first sent the report on the fulfilment of the benchmarks in Chapter 23 (Judiciary and Fundamental Rights) to EU ambassadors rather than to members of the Croatian parliament showed "a servile mentality that does not expect praise from its own people but from Eurobureaucrats."...more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/128141/HSP-criticises-government.html

PM says Milanovic doing everything to make road to EU harder

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14.05.2011 14:06

Author: Radio.net

Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor said on Saturday the president of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP), Zoran Milanovic, was doing everything to make the road to the EU harder and that as an MP, if he had been at work more frequently, he would have known everything parliament had been doing, at the government's proposal, regarding Chapter 23, Judiciary and Fundamental Rights, in Croatia's EU entry talks....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/127838/PM-says-Milanovic-doing-everything-to-make-road-to-EU-harder.html

SDP demands that elections be held in September

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NO TIME TO LOSE

10.05.2011 18:01

Author: Radio.net
MP Zeljko Jovanovic of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) told a news conference in the northern Adriatic city of Rijeka on Tuesday that his party demanded that elections be held in late September - after the successful completion of Croatia's EU entry talks - so that a new government would be able to prepare a quality budget and reforms in 2012.
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http://daily.tportal.hr/127053/SDP-demands-that-elections-be-held-in-September.html

HSP suggests suspending EU entry talks until after elections

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EU ACCESSION
05.05.2011 14:03

Author: Radio.net

The Croatian Party of Rights (HSP) proposed on Thursday that negotiations on Croatia's accession to the European Union be suspended until the end of elections, to be held towards the end of the year, so that "Croatia isn't forced to make new concessions with serious economic and political consequences."...more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/126201/HSP-suggests-suspending-EU-entry-talks-until-after-elections.html

MP's criticise MP Buric for politicising Hague tribunal verdict

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ICTY VERDICT
04.05.2011 14:46

Author: Radio.net

Dinko Buric, a representative of the regional HDSSB party in the Croatian parliament, said on Wednesday that the verdict of the Hague tribunal against Croatian generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac was a verdict against the Croatian state and people and the continuation of criminalisation of the Homeland War, a position which deputies of the HDZ, IDS and HNS parties dismissed as an attempt to politicise the issue....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/125996/MP-s-criticise-MP-Buric-for-politicising-ICTY-verdict.html

New political party established

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ACTION FOR A BETTER CROATIA
30.04.2011 17:17

Author: Radio.net

A new political party, called Action for a Better Croatia, held its founding session in Zagreb on Saturday, and Zeljko Sacic was elected its president....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/125306/New-political-party-established.html

Major protest rally in Zagreb on Friday

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'The Young and the Old Together'

27.04.2011 14:24

Author: Radio.net

The political bloc "Pensioners Together", the Union of Croatian Farmers and coordinators of recent protests organised via the social network Facebook, said on Wednesday that they would hold a major protest rally in Zagreb's central square on Friday....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/124676/Major-protest-rally-in-Zagreb-on-Friday.html

Pusic: Law on cooperation with tribunal is obligation for everybody

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17.04.2011 17:43
Author: Radio.net
Croatian People's Party (HNS) official Vesna Pusic has said that she deems it to be the obligation of everybody in Croatia to comply with the Constitutional Law on cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)....more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/122921/Pusic-Law-on-cooperation-with-tribunal-is-obligation-for-everybody.html

SDP leader: Law-based means to be used to challenge unfair verdicts

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ICTY VERDICTS
17.04.2011 13:05
Author: Radio.net
Social Democratic Party leader Zoran Milanovic said on Saturday that legal means should be used to challenge what he labelled the unjust non-final verdicts which the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) delivered against Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac on Friday....more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/122896/SDP-leader-Law-based-means-to-be-used-to-challenge-unfair-verdicts.html

Djapic accuses Mesic of treason

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TRANSCRIPTS
16.04.2011 16:19
Author: Radio.net
The honorary president of the Croatian Party of Rights (HSP), Anto Djapic, accused former President of the Republic Stjepan Mesic of treason for illegally handing over transcripts of the Brijuni meeting to the Hague war crimes tribunal and called for termination of EU membership negotiations and immediate parliamentary elections....more...
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http://daily.tportal.hr/122823/Djapic-accuses-Mesic-of-treason.html

Milanovic: Veterans are already constitutionally protected category

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War veterans

14.04.2011 16:02
Author: Radio.net

Croatian war veterans already are a constitutionally protected category, Social Democratic Party (SDP) president Zoran Milanovic said on Thursday, asked to comment on government announcements that it would consider moving up the law on war veterans into the constitutional category....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/122492/Milanovic-Veterans-are-already-constitutionally-protected-category.html

75,000 signatures for petition calling for facilitating employment

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HSLS

12.04.2011 12:43
Author: Radio.net

The Croatian Social Liberal Party (HSLS) has collected 75,000 signatures for its proposal to exempt employers from paying taxes and contributions for the salaries of first-time employees for a period of one year from their employment, party leader Darinko Kosor said on Tuesday presenting the results of the party's ten-day campaign....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/121966/75-000-signatures-for-petition-calling-for-facilitating-employment.html

SDP leader: Indictment against Gotovina completely unacceptable

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ICTY

10.04.2011 22:03 Author: Radio.net

Social Democratic Party (SDP) president Zoran Milanovic said in an interview with the Nova TV commercial television network on Sunday evening that the indictment against General Ante Gotovina was completely unacceptable and politically motivated....more...

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http://daily.tportal.hr/121636/SDP-leader-Indictment-against-Gotovina-completely-unacceptable.html