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Croatia: A Conversation with President Ivo Josipovic
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Reblogged from Croatia Business Report: By CBR Editor Brian Gallagher The President of Croatia, Ivo Josipovic is in the UK for a three day visit. He has met with the Queen, David Cameron (pictured above) and the Minister for Europe David Liding...
Croatia: 21 Years a Member State of the United Nations
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Today, 22 May 1992, dr Franjo Tudjman delivered his speech at the United Nations, ushering Croatia into the world of free, sovereign, independent and democratic states. Here is the speech he delivered in New York on that day, which I have translated...
Croatian Constitutional Court Abolishes Health (Sex) Education Curriculum
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As I have written in my previous posts (see links at end of this article) the sex education curriculum imposed in Croatia early this year saw a nation bitterly divided on issues covered in the curriculum; it saw the Croatian TV journalist Karolina Vi...
Croatia: Speakeasy Lingers At Local Government Elections
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According to the Croatian Electoral Office 46.96% of eligible voters in Croatia turned up to vote at the Local government elections Sunday 19 May. One may well conclude that, although not as high as the 54.32% turnout at December 2011 parliamentary e...
Let’s Create the Europe of Good
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Dr. Slobodan Lang headed the list of candidates for the Joint Movement of Good that ran for the European Union Parliament elections in Croatia last month. Although the group of candidates did not succeed in achieving seats in the EU Parliament the un...
Croatia: Glorification of Communist Crimes as anti-Fascist Achievement
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Even if, after thoroughly studying the victims of the Holocaust (some 11 million, 6 million of which were Jews) and the victims of WWII and post-WWII communist crimes (some 100 million), one concludes that the Nazis and their collaborators were worse...
Croatian Economy: The Gangrene Must Out
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“The beginning of 2013 was marked by stagnating movements in economic activities. Significant drop in exports came as well, coupled, though, with concurrent strengthening of domestic demand under the influence of increased government’s in...
Croatian Government: “… pure sabotage, manipulation through fear …”
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As an introduction, he put his hands together and said: I love you. He then suggested to the audience in the filled hall to close their eyes and think of someone with whom they’d like to realise a better relationship and to tell them with their...
Croatia: Stop Listening To Serbia – Listen To The Victims Of Her Aggression!
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The events in Croatia during the past week should have marked the diary pages with pride, piety, dignified grieving for the lost lives, and a determined step forward in the direction of achieving final justice for the multitudes of war crimes’...
Croatia – Electoral Law Groundhog Day
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31.5% of Dubrovnik’s eligible voters came out to vote at the Referendum (for or against the proposed development of area Srdj [Srđ] above the city into an elite golf course and apartments) last Sunday. Not a big turnout, but some 80% of th...
Not for Turning: Margaret Thatcher and Croatia/Bosnia
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Reblogged from Croatia Business Report: By Brian Gallagher With the recent death of Margaret Thatcher, a couple of biographies of her have been published. One is ‘Not for Turning’ by Robin Harris. Harris, of course, was one of her t...
Egg on Tim Judah’s and BBC’s faces – pursuing the truth of Franjo Tudjman
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Regardless of the fact that BBC (with Tim Judah’s help?) changed the wording in the relevant part of Tim Judah’s article “Croatia: From isolation to EU Membership” there is still egg on Judah’s and BBC’s faces. You...
Sick and Tired of BBC Perversions
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It’s a real shame that someone at BBC doesn’t think twice and actually stops someone else (or self) at BBC from publishing lies, half-truths or perversions of truth about Croatia (in the context of former Yugoslavia particularly). But the...
Analysis: The Croatian Labourists performance in the European elections
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Reblogged from Croatia Business Report: By John Pindar While there has been attention given to the very close result between the HDZ and its allies and the SDP plus its allies, it may not have been noted that the Croatian Labourists – Labour Pa...
Croatia: HDZ Purges – Another One Bites The Dust?
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Whether one likes or dislikes Jadranka Kosor as a politician, as a former president of Croatian Democratic Union/HDZ and former Prime Minister of Croatia is beside the arguably moot point of the party’s recent and current self-cleansing frenzy.
Croatia: EU Parliament Elections – Winners are Losers in Dismal 20.84% Voter Turnout!
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Were you to observe the media buzz in Croatia, with all the pomp and ceremony (including photos with brightly coloured shawls around politicians shoulders, balloons, confetti, champagne …) you would think there was a major event in Croatia tha...
Not Inviting Victims To UNGA Debate On International Criminal Justice – Inexcusable!
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Press Conference at the UN – most touching plight by witness of genocide. 10 Apr 2013 – Speakers: His Royal Highness Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al Hussein, Permanent Representative of Jordan to the United Nations and H.E. Mr. Christian...
Twisted Churkin’s churning in support of Vuk Jeremic’s (Serbia’s)UNGA political attack on ICTY
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The UNGA debate on the role of international criminal justice on reconciliation organised and planned by Vuk Jeremic (Serbian politician), president of UNGA, held 10 April, did as I feared: pushed forth in representing the worst possible face of twis...
The Fabulous Watchdogs of Vuk Jeremic’s UNGA Debate on International Criminal Justice
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Reconciliation equals peace. There can be no doubt that achieving reconciliation and peace requires, among other things, a great deal of diplomacy, political maneuvering, goodwill from the people, wound healing, conflict resolution and compromise; th...
R.I.P. BARONESS MARGARET THATCHER – THANK YOU!
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Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died at the age of 87 following a stroke. As Britain’s longest-serving 20th century Prime Minister and the only woman to have held the job, Lady Thatcher presided over a decade of radical chan...
