Zagreb - 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. Kosor was elected to lead Croatia's strongest party with a...
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Zagreb - Croatia's parliament should, on Monday, approve a new government led by prime minister designate Jadranka Kosor, local media reported Saturday. Croatian President Stjepan Mesic on Friday night gave Kosor a mandate to form a new government, t...
Croatian President Stipe Mesic has opened talks on a naming a woman as prime minister for the first time in the Balkan state after the unexpected resignation of Ivo Sanader.
Prime Minister Ivo Sanader gave no reason for stepping down, leaving his deputy to revive a stalled European Union application bid and deal with a bad economy.
In a surprise announcement on Wednesday, Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said he was stepping down from his post and quitting politics. He admitted that the issue of Croatia's EU membership was one of the factors that led to his decision.
Croatian Prime Minister, Ivo Sanader, has announced he will resign and withdraw from politics. The announcement came as a surprise as Croatian media had speculated recently that Sanader would run for president in 2010, the BBC reported. "I have decided to withdraw from active politics and not to run for the presidency....
Zagreb - Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, who stunned Croatia by announcing his resignation Wednesday, still had two years to go before his second term in the office was to expire. The conservative Sanader, 56, took over the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ...
"We acknowledge the resignation of Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader as the Head of the Croatian Government and the leader of the ruling HDZ Party. He has been at the helm of Croatia for the last six years and he was the major driving force behind Croatia's ongoing EU integration", said Joseph Daul, Chairman of the EPP Group in the European Parliament.
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. There were 9 per cent fewer tourists in Croatia in the first f...
"The suspension of the next round of accession negotiations between the European Union and Croatia, originally scheduled for tomorrow, creates a dangerous precedent", said the Chairwoman of the European Parliament's South-Eastern Europe Delegation, Doris Pack MEP. This suspension of negotiations, already well-advanced, not only jeopardises the time schedule of Croatia's accession; it is also...
Prague - The Czech Republic's presidency of the European Union said Wednesday it cancelled an upcoming accession conference with Croatia over the Balkan country's border row with EU member Slovenia. The presidency postponed the meeting, planned for F...
[JURIST] A Bosnian state court refused Tuesday to extradite former Croatian parliament deputy Branimir Glavas to Croatia to serve a sentence for war crimes. Glavas, who holds dual Bosnian and Croatian citizenship, fled to Bosnia to avoid serving his sentence for killing Serbs during the Croatian conflict from 1991-1994. Glavas was convicted in May in the Zagreb County court and sentenced to 10 years...
Ljubljana - Slovenian parliamentary parties agreed Tuesday to continue talks about a border dispute that have so far led it to block neighbouring Croatia's European Union accession talks. It would be a pity to end this process now, Prime Minister B...
In the optics of a future European Union accession, the European Parliament pronounces himself on the state of progress of the negotiations with the three countries. The results are mitigated. Parliament confident about negotiations with Croatia The European Parliament compliments Croatia on the progress made in 2008 on the road to EU membership. Croatia has especially improved in key areas such as...