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23 May 12 / 09:12:34

Croatia Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Admission to UN

Ceremony launches major retrospective of the country's progress two decades after its emergence as an independent member of the global community.

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24 May 12 / 15:41:18

Amnesty International: 2011 Was Turbulent

Amnesty International’s human rights report for 2011 welcomed the arrest of the last two ICTY fugitives, Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadzic, but warned that many people across the region still wait for justice.

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14 May 12 / 17:45:27

Gotovina and Markac Appeal the ICTY Verdict

The defence teams of Croatian Generals Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac have asked for The Hague Tribunal’s verdict to be quashed, a motion the prosecution opposes.  

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10 May 12 / 11:02:42

Anti-Roma Incidents Criticised in Croatia

Parliamentary committee for minorities condemns recent wave of hate speech directed against Roma community.

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09 May 12 / 17:57:47

Croatian President Urges Support for RECOM

President of Croatia Ivo Josipovic called on regional leaders to support the legal efforts of the RECOM initiative. 

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08 May 12 / 15:09:28

Two Decades Since Expulsion of Vojvodina Croats

Twenty years after the expulsion of ethnic Croats from the village of Hrtkovci in the Serbian province of Vojvodina began, Serbia has still not prosecuted those responsible.

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08 May 12 / 12:34:34

OSCE Warns Croatia Broadcaster on Media Freedom

Dunja Mijatovic has expressed concern over HRT threats to penalize journalists who speak out about the state of media freedom.

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08 May 12 / 11:55:04

Bosnia Finally Takes Control of its Airspace

After years of relying on Serbia and Croatia to undertake some of the services, Bosnia is ready at last to manage air traffic control over the whole country.

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04 May 12 / 13:06:26

Croatia and the ICTY: "No More Open Questions“

There is “nothing to burden” relations between Croatia and the Hague Tribunal, ICTY, the Croatian government declared following a visit by the ICTY prosecutor Serge Brammertz.

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03 May 12 / 17:21:40

Trial for the Wartime Massacre in Bacin Starts

A war crime trial for the murder of 56 Croat civilians in October 1991 in the village of Bacin, in central Croatia, started on Wednesday at the County court in Rijeka, Croatia. 

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02 May 12 / 12:26:27

Serbia and Croatia Mark Operation 'Flash' Differently

The anniversary of a key military operation in Croatia's war for independence was marked with warm words in Zagreb and a mournful church service in Belgrade.

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30 Apr 12 / 12:55:02

Serbia Debates War Crime Trials

Proper processing of war criminals is crucial for the region in order to face the past adequately, it has been concluded at the debate about war crime trials in Serbia.

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25 Apr 12 / 11:21:40

Lovas case: Prosecution Asks for Long Jail Terms

The Serbian Prosecution’s Office requested that 14 people charged for war crimes committed in the Croatian village of Lovas be sentenced to a total of 160 years of prison.

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25 Apr 12 / 09:59:53

Croatia and Bosnia Mull Solutions to Bilateral Disputes

Croatian and Bosnian officials on April 24 exchanged views on a range of outstanding issues, ranging from the Neum corridor to the port of Ploce and EU-standard border checkpoints.

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24 Apr 12 / 16:41:09

More Funds Required for Balkan Refugees

Although countries from the region had hoped to obtain more than half billion euros to solve outstanding refugee issues, they came out of a donors’ conference with less than two thirds of that sum.

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23 Apr 12 / 09:47:15

Former Croatian Serb Leader Set For Retrial

Borislav Mikelic, former Prime Minister of the breakaway Serb statelet in Croatia, is to be retried at the request of his lawyer after being sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in 1993 in absentia.

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24 May 12 / 15:22:47

"Croatia’s Putin" Takes Over Tudjman’s Party

Newly elected head of HDZ, Tomislav Karamarko wins the post by reviving the  nationalist rhetoric of the 1990s.

07 May 12 / 10:44:28

Mercep and Vukovar

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30 Apr 12 / 18:31:28

Croatia: Gas and Electricity Prices to Go Up

Croatian household gas tariffs will rise by 22% and electricity will go up by 20% from 1 May, the government decided on Friday.