Croatia
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Trade: ‘Croatian capital conquers Slovenia’
13 June 201331PresseuropDnevnik -
Croatia’s local elections: ‘Milanović saved by the second round’
3 June 201332PresseuropVečernji list -
Former Yugoslavia: Croatia responsible for crimes during Bosnian War
30 May 201373 2PresseuropNovi List, Jutarnji List -
Croatia: ‘Re-introduce sex education in schools’
24 May 201338 10PresseuropJutarnji List -
Croatia: ‘Will the EU sink our next billions here?’
23 May 201389 13PresseuropBild -
Croatia: ‘Bandić stronger than SDP and HDZ combined’
20 May 201327PresseuropVečernji list -
Croatia: After accession, next comes Schengen
3 May 201366 1PresseuropDer Standard -
Enlargement : Crisis makes candidate countries think twice
2 May 2013118 12PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Serbia-Croatia: Melting of the 'ice age'
30 April 201329PresseuropDanas -
Croatia: Respecting the rule of law
23 April 2013118 7 Le Temps Geneva -
Croatia: ‘It’s a defeat for the SDP’
15 April 201339 2PresseuropJutarnji List -
European Elections: Croatian cast their first ever votes
12 April 201365 2PresseuropTportal , Novi List, Jutarnji List -
Balkans: ‘Slovenia unanimous in its support for European Croatia’
3 April 201320PresseuropDelo -
Croatia: At the end of the EU obstacle course
27 March 2013224 12 Jutarnji List Zagreb -
Croatia: ‘€655m. Vukovar, Osijek, Rijeka and Porec will be first to benefit from EU money’
27 March 201344 2PresseuropVečernji list -
Sport: In Budapest and Zagreb, football is political too
22 March 201331 3PresseuropNépszabadság, Jutarnji List -
Balkans: ‘Slovenia allows us into the EU, we allow its banks into Croatia’
12 March 201324 1PresseuropJutarnji List -
Croatia-Slovenia: ‘Finally! The obstacles have been cleared. In 114 days, we will be in the EU.’
8 March 201357 14PresseuropJutarnji List -
Middle East: Croatian weapons in Syrian rebel hands
27 February 201346 2PresseuropLa Libre Belgique -
Croatia-Slovenia: ‘Croatia gets less than it should, while Slovenia pays more than it wants’
8 February 201331PresseuropVečernji list -
Croatia-Slovenia: Bridging an irreconcilable divide
6 February 201396 3 Tportal Zagreb -
Croatia: Bumps in the road to accession
4 February 2013113 9 NRC Handelsblad Amsterdam -
Banks: ‘Croatia and Slovenia close to bank dispute solution’
31 January 201320PresseuropNovi List -
Croatia: Ivo Josipović: in tune with the times
20 December 2012131 Le Monde Paris -
The front page: 18 December 2012
18 December 2012PresseuropMladá Fronta DNES, România libera, Trouw & 4 others -
Balkans: Hague verdicts stoke old war feud
3 December 2012183 5 Tygodnik Powszechny Cracow -
Croatia: Ivo Sanader — fall of an almost perfect leader
21 November 201246 2PresseuropJutarnji List, Die Presse -
The front page: 20 November 2012
20 November 201215PresseuropThe Independent, Svenska Dagbladet, Večernji list & 4 others -
Balkans: Gotovina and Markač acquittal reopens wounds
19 November 201257 2PresseuropNovi List, Jutarnji List, Poslovni Dnevnik & 2 others -
The front page: 16 November 2012
16 November 201224Presseurop24 Sata, El Periódico de Catalunya, The Economist & 4 others -
History: Yugoslavia syndrome threatens EU
15 October 2012425 36 De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
The front page: 6 August 2012
6 August 201217PresseuropLa Repubblica, Die Welt, La Razón & 4 others -
The front page: 1 June 2012
1 June 201227PresseuropThe Irish Times, La Vanguardia, Financial Times & 5 others -
Croatia: A small “yes” to EU
23 January 201299 2PresseuropNovi List, Slobodna Dalmacija, Jutarnji List -
The front page: 23 January 2012
23 January 201225PresseuropVečernji list, Lapin Kansa, La Croix & 4 others -
Cartoon: On the threshold
20 January 201292 Le Vif/L’Express Brussels -
Croatia: Joining the Union with little enthusiasm
20 January 2012147 15 Tportal Zagreb -
The front page: 18 January 2012
18 January 201225PresseuropDie Presse, Financial Times Deutschland, Financial Times Deutschland & 5 others -
Eurozone crisis: Will the EU end up like Yugoslavia?
5 January 2012373 67 Politika Belgrade -
Croatia: Welcome
9 December 201143 Al-Mustaqbal Beirut -
The front page: 5 December 2011
5 December 201121Presseurop -
Croatia: Dreaming of no-strings membership
1 December 2011101 2 Tportal Zagreb -
The front page: 18 November 2011
18 November 201120Presseurop -
European Union: An enlargement of illusions
13 October 201185 3 Dagens Nyheter Stockholm -
Former Yugoslavia: Balkan delusions of grandeur
3 October 2011356 5 Jutarnji List Zagreb -
Croatia : EU drawn into election campaign
23 September 20112PresseuropVečernji list -
Germany-Serbia: Plain speaking in Belgrade
22 August 2011PresseuropDer Tagesspiegel -
Enlargement: Good advice
29 June 201140 Le Vif/L’Express Brussels -
Croatia: Still a long road to Europe
13 June 201175 1 Novi List Rijeka -
Croatia: Barroso opens door to EU
8 June 20113PresseuropJutarnji List
Croatia will join the European Union on July 1, the first such entry since the beginning of the financial crisis in 2008. But this should not mean that membership conditions concerning respect for the rule of law are sidestepped, as there were for some states in the last enlargement. 
The news has been confirmed: after more than 10 years of negotiations, the Croats are set to join the EU on July 1. Convinced that they had been burned by previous enlargements, the EU’s 27 members were even more strict with Zagreb than they were with other countries which recently joined the Union. 
Croatia's accession to the EU, scheduled for July 1, remains suspended until a border dispute and banking row with neighbouring Slovenia are cleared up. The impasse exposes the gap in perceptions of national sovereignty between the EU and the continent’s new independent states. 
The Netherlands is the 22nd member state to ratify Croatia's accession to the EU on July 1. A fair decision, says NRC Handelsblad, even if the laxity shown by the bloc during the enlargement which included Bulgaria and Romania led them to be more severe with Zagreb. 
The new year will be busy for Ivo Josipović, the President of Croatia. For one, his country will join the European Union on July 1, 2013. That means this atypical head of state, who is both a lawyer and a composer, will have to wait a while longer before returning to his piano to finish an opera about John Lennon. 
The acquittal of two Croat generals and a Kosovar ex-prime minister has reignited the dispute over a much-contested subject in the former Yugoslavia: who was the victim and who the aggressor in the war nearly 20 years ago? 
The acquittal of General Gotovina and General Markač by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia salvages the honour of Croatia, but does not erase all the questions about the country's recent past, writes the national press. In Serbia, on the other hand, the news has not been well received. 
The north earns the money, while the south spends it – while this phrase is currently being bandied about in the eurozone, it was also widely heard a quarter of a century ago in the former Yugoslavia. European politicians would do well to remember, a Dutch journalist contends. 
On 22 January, Croats voted in favour of ratifying the Treaty of Accession to the EU, prompting a sigh of relief in Brussels. The record voter abstention rate, however, must give cause for concern, notes the Croatian press. 
On January 22, Croatia must ratify by referendum the Treaty of Accession to the EU. But the campaign, coming just as the country is about to enter a Europe in crisis, has been marked by second thoughts and a new nationalist rhetoric. 
Seen from Belgrade, Zagreb or Sarajevo, the economic and institutional crisis that has struck the European Union has a certain air of déjà-vu. Serbian daily Politika remarks on the similarities with the years preceding the break-up of the federation founded by Tito. 
On 4 December, voters in Croatia will elect a new parliament. A few days later, Zagreb is set to sign its accession to the European Union. However, before it officially becomes part of the EU in July 2013, the country will have to implement far reaching reforms, which neither the government or the opposition appear ready to announce to their fellow citizens. 
In opening up the prospect of accession to several candidate countries, the European Commissioner for Enlargement means to put on a show of optimism. But it only reinforces the impression that Europe doesn’t know where it’s going, writes the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. 
In a phenomenon that has emerged in cities as diverse as Skopje, Niš and Split, the states of the former Yugoslavia are been swept by a craze for megalomaniac monuments. Croatian writer Jurica Pavicic examines the vogue for these nationalist monstrosities, and concludes their goal is to rewrite history. 
Croatia got the green light to join the European Union on July 1, 2013, it was announced on June 10. But several events, the latest of which is the scattered confrontations during Split’s Gay Pride Day this weekend, highlight that the road to Europe remains long, notes Boris Pavelic in Croatian daily Novi List. - 1 of 2
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