Social Democrats in Croatia should win enough votes Sunday to form a majority in the country's parliament, UPI quoted leaders of the party and opinion polls as saying.
"We expect victory, like anybody competing for the trust of the citizens," said (...)
AlHijjah 14, 1432, Nov 10, 2011, SPA -- Croatia will sign its accession treaty to the European Union on December 9 in Brussels, the country's prime minister, Jadranka Kosor, said in Zagreb after a cabinet meeting.
The signature was fixed to take (...)
Croatia indicted a former senior interior ministry official on Thursday, charging him with war crimes against Serb civilians at the beginning of the country's independence war in the early 1990s, Reuters reported.
The Zagreb county state (...)
Croatia is certain it will complete its European Union entry talks by the end of July, the country's chief EU negotiator, Vladimir Drobnjak, told parliament on Friday, according to Reuters.
Earlier this week EU foreign ministers said they were (...)
Akhir 05 , 1432 H. / March 10, 2011 -- Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor on Friday rejected opposition pressure for an early election, saying she will only call a vote after her government completes accession negotiations with the European (...)
Akhir 01, 1432 H/March 6, 2011, SPA -- Several thousand Croatians have marched in the capital demanding the government resign amid a financial crisis in what have become almost daily protests in the country hoping to soon join the European Union, AP (...)
Awwal 30, 1432 H/March 5, 2011, SPA -- Hundreds of Croatians marched Saturday in several towns demanding the government resign amid economic hardship and corruption allegations in the nation hoping to join the European Union.
The marches are the (...)
Croatian Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor announced a reshuffle of her centre-right government on Monday before elections due in late 2011, Reuters reported.
"The main idea is to strengthen the part of our team who will carry the biggest burden, to (...)
Several people were injured in Zagreb when a large group of Croatian football fans threw stones at and set fire to a bus carrying fans from the Greek club PAOK, Croatian police said Tuesday according to dpa.
Police said that a group of 30 people, (...)
A Croatian summit of Balkan and European leaders
began today in the Adriatic town of Dubrovnik despite a cancellation
by its major star - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, according to dpa.
The two-day summit, the fifth in as many (...)
Croatian police confirmed today that a mass
grave from the Second World War was found on the outskirts of Zagreb, dpa quoted
local media as reporting.
The grave is believed to contain remains of 17 men, possibly of
Croatian and German soldiers (...)
Another suspect in the killing of the Croatian
journalist Ivo Pukanic will join the already launched trial in
Zagreb, after Bosnia extradited him on Friday, according to dpa.
The suspect, Bojan Guduric, waived his protection from (...)
An exit poll indicates a legal scholar is leading comfortably in Croatia"s presidential election over Zagreb"s mayor, AP reported.
The survey by Ipsos-Puls agency after Sunday"s vote suggests opposition candidate Ivo Josipovic, of the leftist (...)
Croatia on Friday rejected as unfounded Serbia"s
plan to file charges of genocide against Zagreb at the United
Nation"s International Court of Justice, local media reported, according to dpa.
Croatia Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor told reporters (...)
The opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) candidate Ivo Josipovic won the most votes in the Croatian presidential election Sunday, according to exit polls, but without enough votes to avoid a second-round run-off next month, dpa (...)
Croatia said Thursday it is investigating the execution-style killing of five Serb civilians in their village in 1995 as Croat forces allegedly drove Serbs out of the country, according to AP.
Three men and two women were killed in their homes in (...)
Croatia will hold a presidential election on Dec. 27 to find a successor for veteran reformer Stjepan Mesic, who is nearing the end of his second term, according to Reuters.
The new head of state, whose role is largely ceremonial, will oversee the (...)
The former Croatian prime minister Ivo Sanader was urgently brought back from a vacation cruise and hospitalized with pneumonia, the national television HTV reported Friday.
Sanader, 56, was initially hustled to an infective clinic, but
after he (...)
An emergency services official says
a train has derailed in southern Croatia and many
passengers are injured.
Darko Marinkovic, a duty official, told The Associated
Press that medical teams are on the scene to treat the
«many» injured. He said (...)
Croatia's ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)
party Saturday elected prime minister-designate Jadranka Kosor as the
party's new head after the surprise resignation of Ivo Sanader, according to dpa.
Kosor was elected to lead Croatia's strongest (...)
Croatian President Stjepan Mesic
mandated former Deputy Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor today
to form a new centre-right coalition government after Prime
Minister Ivo Sanader unexpectedly stepped down this week, Reuters reported.
If approved by (...)
Croatia identified its first case
of the H1N1 flu virus in a patient who flew in from Australia
this week, Reuters cited Health Minister Darko Milinovic as saying today.
"The virus has been confirmed with four different lab
tests," Milinovic (...)
Croatian authorities ordered the evacuation of parts of the southern Adriatic resort of Makarska on Saturday because of advancing forest fires, Reuters quoted the state radio as saying.
The blaze near Makarska, 440 km (275 miles) south of Zagreb, (...)
Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said Friday he was
confident that Croatia remains on track to join the European Union,
even though Irish voters rejected the EU's reform pact, according to dpa.
His remarks came after French President Nicolas Sarkozy (...)
Two cruise ships collided Friday in the Adriatic
Sea near the Croatian tourist town of Dubrovnik, but no one was
injured, media reported, according to dpa.
"Two cruisers collided in the old town harbour. One of them had to
make a full circle (...)
