Latest News from Croatia

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will visit Sarajevo at the beginning of June, Ivan Mrkic, foreign affairs adviser to the Serbian president, has said.

Mrkic told Belgrade-based daily Danas that the visit to Sarajevo had had to wait until elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) were finished.

The European Commission on Wednesday said it was referring Romania to the EU Court of Justice for failing to enact revised EU legislation on packaging waste into domestic law.

The revised Packaging Directive updates rules on packaging and packaging waste with a view to reducing their impact on the environment, the Commission said in a statement.

The US Army is due to begin on May 1 the Combined Resolve IV drills at two German training grounds located in Bavaria.

Almost 10 million part-time workers in the European Union, of whom two-thirds were women, would have preferred to work more in 2014, according to a labour force survey conducted by Eurostat.

JASENOVAC - Today's Croatia is not a successor to the (Nazi puppet state) Independent State of Croatia (NDH), Zoran Milanovic has said at a commemoration marking 70 years since the break-out of inmates from Ustasha-run death camp Jasenovac.

"99.5 percent of asylum seekers returned to Serbia"

BELGRADE -- Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic says that 99.5 percent of Serbian citizens seeking asylum in EU countries have been sent back.

The reason is that Serbia has been declared a country of safe origin, he told a news conference on Friday.

NEW YORK - Switzerland is the world's happiest country according to a survey comprising 158 countries, including Serbia that ranks 87th preceded by its neighbors Montenegro, Croatia and Slovenia, reads the World Happiness Report issued in New York.

The land of chocolate is closely followed by Iceland, Denmark, Norway and Canada.