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A New Star in the European Sky: Croatia
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WASHINGTON– Strange as it may seem to some, there are those who wish to join the European Union, in spite of all its current flaws. Croatian voters gave a resounding yes to becoming the 28th member state of the European Union in a referendum h...
EU referendum: Don’t know – don’t care
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The results of the referendum are clear – Croatia has chosen Europe! Two thirds of Croatian voters voted ‘YES’ in today’s referendum on country’s EU accession. Exactly 22 years after that historical day when Croatian del...
Gotovina’s ‘YES’ in the referendum
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Retired Croatian army general and a war hero Ante Gotovina will vote ‘YES’ in the EU accession referendum. This information was passed down to Croatian media by his solicitor Luka Misetic earlier today. Although many find this shocking be...
Croatia EU membership referendum campaigns: Blackmail and sweet-talk (Yes to EU) Vs sovereignty and self-determination (No to EU)
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Media grabs – days before Croatian referendum Bloomberg: “Croatia’s drive to join the European Union may stall as citizens are split over whether accession will drag the former Yugoslav republic into a debt crisis and erode its sovereignty.
Worshiped like Gods
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Few days before the referendum on Croatia’s EU accession I found myself thinking about the interesting scenario. Despite my decision to vote ‘yes’ on the referendum, it would be rather exciting to witness Croatia’s ‘no&#...
New Year 2012: More of the same?
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New Year’s Eve. Special time of the year. Time marches on relentlessly through the only day of the year that has a countdown. Countdown to a snake shedding like process for many people in which they try to discard their old habits,bury them dee...
Thank you, Poland!
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By signing the Treaty in Brussels today Croatia made its final step towards the EU membership. Croatian politicians consider this act one of the most important in country’s recent history. Although I consider those statements exaggerated, I mus...
A Red Carrot Harvest in Croatia
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Once upon a time – but still fresh in memory of many – there were jobs for most. The communist rule in former Yugoslavia, with socialist orientation made it their business that everyone of working age and capacity should have an ongoing job witho...
Croatia and Slovenia Want Change
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High jobless rates, weak economic prospects and an apparent fatigue to buy into simplistic national slogans prompted voters in Croatia and Slovenia this weekend to topple their respective governments and back little tested politicians to improve the...
Nigel Farage barrage
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At the moment Croatia is a star in the European Union circles – praise for Croatia’s achievements in its unreasonably hard route to reach the stage of signing the EU Treaty & become a member of EU echoes almost everywhere one looks. The Croat...
Dobrodošli na Hrvatska/A warm EU welcome to Croatia
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It took six years of negotiations, but Croatia’s entry into the European Union is now officially a formality. In a mad dash to the finish line, the Hungarian presidency managed to squeeze in one last mini-summit to consecrate the deal …Contin...
Make Croatia feel welcome!
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Yesterday, on 26 January, the European Parliament adopted a resolution saying that Croatia’s accession negotiations could be completed in the first half of 2011 provided the country stays on track, meaning the EU could gain another member state...
Croatia’s President gave a hint of attack to Bosnia
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I wonder how many readers saw anything in western media related to informal statement on 20.1.2010 made by Croatia’s President Mesic. Here quote: “If Milorad Dodik (head of Republica Srpska, AR) scheduled a referendum for secession of Repub...
Slovenia is embarrassing
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Reading that Slovenia continues to block the accession talks of Croatia due to nationalistic considerations is totally embarrassing. I thought that with the agreement between both countries earlier this year this kind of things would have ended...
Croatia, Slovenia Bury Border Dispute
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Slovenia and Croatia have reached an agreement on their long-running border dispute, a move that will allow Croatia to continue its European Union accession talks. READ MORE...
Breakthrough on the Border Dispute between Slovenia and Croatia
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Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor has announced that the negotiations on the settlement of the border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia would resume with EU mediation. He also said that the Slovenian government would propose to the parliament t...
Good news from Slovenia and Croatia
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This friday the Slovenian Prime Minister announced that Slovenia will lift its veto against EU accession of Croatia over the two countries’ dispute on the border in the Adriatic Sea. Talks on settling the dispute will, however, continue with in...
Slovenia | Conflict with Croatia
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Slovenia's European election campaign missed any European aspects stated an Austrian newspaper. As in other member states, the financial crisis was a big deal. Moreover, unsolved border issues with Croatia dominated, as usual, the discussions. These...
Can Irish protocol be added to Croatian Accession Agreement?
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Irish Taoiseach (prime minister) Brian Cowen has re-confirmed that the ‘guarantees’ promised by EU leaders at the December summit “must be legally robust in order to reassure the public about the treaty”. He said: “Whi...
Is the Croatian Solution legally possible?
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In order to reassure Ireland on certain legal matters raised in the Lisbon Treaty referendum campaign, the plan was to attach the legally binding guarantees to the Croatian Accession treaty. The idea was that this would prevent the need to reopen the...
Serbian-Croatian Relations After the Summit
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The first time ever an ethnic Serb citizen of Croatia, Aleksandar Jevtic, has received Croatia's highest award. The ethnic Serb citizen of Croatia has saved the lives of Croatian soldiers during the Croatia's war of independence, which was in fact, a...
Slovenia vs Croatia: echo of past
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The Slovenian and Croatian foreign ministers, meeting yesterday with EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, failed to agree on EU mediation to overcome a border row that threatens to delay Croatia’s plans to conclude EU accession talks by the e...
Croatia Accepts EU Mediation with Slovenia
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Croatia accepted an EU proposal to set up an expert group that would help solve its border dispute with Slovenia. At the same time Croatia stressed that such a group should lead to the issue eventually being brought before the International Court of...
Talks between Croatia and Slovenia Stall
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The talks between Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor and his Croatian counterpart Ivo Sanader held on 24 February in the Slovenian town of Mokrice didn’t reach any agreement. Now EurActiv suggests an interesting idea by an anonymous MP, tha...
Euro-Sceptism in Croatia
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In Croatia a Round Table discussion entitled “Croatia: Tired of EU Reforms?” was held last week. The title of event was quite describing because a recent Gallup poll showed serious doubts about Croatia’s EU membership. Opinion of local citize...
Recruiting Croatians Into The European Institutions
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As the England Expects have picked out correctly: the fact that the EU has started to collect CVs from Croatia is good sign that their accession is near. The wheels of the beaurocracy are turning slowly. Link: Epsoforum Croatia. ...
Slovenia : Croatia – a lose-lose game
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So, we are heading towards an full-scale diplomatic war among Slovenia and Croatia. Which is a pity. If Slovenian really blocks the progress of negotiations with Croatia, this will do no good to our bilateral relations and also will not bring us clos...
EU as a democratizing force: Croatia
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The role of external pressure on a country’s democratization is an approach best perfected by the European Union vis-a-vis its candiate states. Croatia is the latest example. With Zagreb aspiring to enter the exclusive Brussels club, Croati...
By request: Croatia and the EU
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Right, so I started writing something about Ukraine, Russia and Nato. There wasn’t an issue of time and energy for once, but I discovered couldn’t quite decide what I thought. I see some problems with this concept, but will soldier onR...
Irish ‘no’: not a no to EU candidate Croatia
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The historical vote against the Lisbon treaty after a referendum on 13 June puts a halt to further expansion in the European Union. But we will be meeting the EU’s 28th member in 2010...
