Croatia News

Croatian President Stipe Mesic on Friday named the country's first female prime minister-designate, who is to form a new government after the unexpected resignation of Ivo Sanader.

Croatian President Stipe Mesic says he is consulting political parties before appointing a successor to the prime minister, who abruptly stepped down this week.

More than one year after the brutal assault on Dusan Miljus, an investigative reporter for the Croatian daily newspaper Jutarnji List, his attackers are yet to be arrested.

I guess many of you think that the further north you travel from the Balkans, the more customs and mindsets change.

CROATIAN Prime Minister Ivo Sanader resigned on Wednesday and said he was withdrawing from politics.

President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov met with his Croatian counterpart Stjepan Mesic on the first day of his official visit to Zagreb.

Croatia is bracing for a huge decline in tourism as a rainy start to the summer season has aggravated the negative effects from the global financial crisis, a report said Monday.

Five neo-Nazis attacked a group of Romas in the Croatian capital of Zagreb in the night between Thursday and Friday, an NGO says.

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia -- The government has sent a protest note to the Croatian Embassy in Ljubljana over alleged violations of Slovenia's airspace, media reported on Friday .

Trip: Visits Zagreb, Split, Plitvice Lakes National Park, Trogir, Dubrovnik and Cavtat, Croatia, and Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader was in Podgorica. Also in diplomatic news: Turkey and China to discuss co-operation, and ICTY President Patrick Robinson says BiH must arrest war crimes fugitives.

Russia's prime minister sent messages to his counterparts in Slovenia and Croatia on Thursday congratulating them on the 18th anniversary of independence from Yugoslavia, the government press service said.

The Czech EU presidency cancelled another round of accession talks between the European Union and Croatia, originally planned for June 26, over the unresolved Slovenian-Croat border dispute, representatives of the presidency announced Wednesday.

Damir Sireta [case materials, in Serbian] was originally charged [indictment, DOC, in Serbian] with violating Articles 22 and 144 of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Criminal Code [text] for his involvement in the killings that took place at a pig farm outside of the Croatian town of Vukovar [JURIST news archive]. At the time of the killings, ...

By a final decision rendered by the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Branimir Glavas will not be extradited to the Republic of Croatia, where he has been sentenced for war crimes in a first-instance verdict.

Serbia's war crimes court has convicted a Croatian Serb man for the execution-style killings of 200 Croatian prisoners of war in 1991 during the Balkan conflict.

BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Croatian officials finally agreed with the European Commission on privatising all six shipyards in the country, Economy Minister Damir Polancec said Wednesday , following a meeting with EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes in Brussels.

Croatia's health minister said the country's first swine flu patient was cured at home, taking tea, lemon and cold showers, and now is back to work.

Police chief Vladimir Faber on Thursday confirmed reports that he has been removed from his post for failing to prevent last week's farmers' protest in downtown Zagreb.

Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in the Croatian capital of Zagreb Friday for a state visit to strengthen the comprehensive cooperative partnership between the two nations.