Tag: Croatia

NOVANEWS By Dr. Vladislav B. Sotirović Global Research On the occasion of 20th anniversary of the end of the civil war on the territory of ex-Yugoslavia (1991−1995) it is necessary to reassess the real causes and cardinal perpetuators of the process of Yugoslavia’s internal and external bloody destruction. Introduction In the western scientific literature the “liberal democracy” scholars (as journalists and policymakers) have, for the last 25 years a standard cliché which is that the cause of Yugoslavia’s destruction is the Serbs as a nation[1] and that Yugoslavia’s only destroyer was Slobodan Milosevic – the “Balkans butcher”.[2] However, the same scholars (and journalists and policymakers) paid no attention to other internal or external “destroyers” of the country. In the cas...

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini, Zagreb Croatia Chooses To Be in the EU Core Only in the Balkans - Reforms Theft Russia Has Got Croatia by the .... Agrokor The EU's newest member state is starting for a new objective - membership, first in Schengen, and then in the euro area. The Croatian government expects preparations for Schengen to be completed in 2019 and for the euro area it will take more time. To Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic this is an expression of pro-Europeanism, thus, he says, euro area membership is pro-Croatian. Joining the cores of European integration has been a major priority for Mr Plenkovic's government ever since his party, Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), won the elections last year on a pro-European programme. Despite the political jolts and change of the coalition pa...

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini, Zagreb Only in the Balkans - Reforms Theft Russia Has Got Croatia by the .... Agrokor More Uncertainty in Croatia after the 2nd Round of Local Elections Croatia made its choice for its future in the EU by choosing, out of the several options of integration, to be in the core of the EU, which this autumn begins a major overhaul that will deepen the integration in areas like defence, security, justice, the euro area. Croatia Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic announced at the opening of the regular government meeting on October 5th that in the coming weeks the government, together with the Croatian People's Bank (HNB) will publish a roadmap for the country's accession to the euro area. He believes membership is possible in several years. Croatia's accession to the...

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini, Zagreb Does Croatia Have the Political Will to Implement Reforms? A Croatian Perspective on the Bulgaria and Romania CVM Reports Chocolinda in the Balkan World Last fall, when snap elections took place in Croatia due to the crisis in the senior coalition partner - the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), and the collapsed coalition was repeated, but with renewed, more moderate leadership, it seemed like the former Yugoslav Republic, despite the general trends in Central Europe and the EU in general, was heading towards normalisation. The former member of the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee and head of the Delegation for Relations with Ukraine, Andrej Plenković, assumed leadership of the HDZ and the government with a promise of moderation, rule of ...

NOVANEWS Adelina Marini Boyko Borissov Hopes European Commission Will Lift Its Monitoring Next Year Is Poland Headed toward Triggering Article 7? Commission Struck a Snag With Poland “In order for the EU to be effective in the disciplining of member states, it needs to be able to sanction. Cutting of EU funds because of problems with the rule of law in some of them might be a good idea”. This is the beginning of the commentary [in Croatian language] by the correspondent of one of the most read newspapers in Croatia, Jutarnji list, Augustin Palokaj on the occasion of the tenth report by the European Commission on the progress of Bulgaria and Romania under the unique for the EU Cooperation and Verification Mechanism. This is an idea, which euinside has put forward on numerous occasion...