Latest News from Croatia

Djokovic dismantles Wawrinka

LONDON - World number one Novak Djokovic defeated Switzerland's Stanislas Wawrinka 6-3 6-0 at the ATP Finals in London on Wednesday to get within reach of the semifinals of the tournament.

This puts Djokovic a step away from securing the top spot in the ATP rankings at the end of the season, since he needs one more victory to do this.

Croatia Ponders Cutting Public Sector Salaries

Croatia's centre-left government is mulling tough new measures to deal with a high budget deficit of 5.8 per cent of GDP and a general government debt equivalent to 81.7 per cent of annual GDP.

"Šešelj is symbol of ethnic cleansing"

BELGRADE -- Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Serbia President Sonja Biserko says SRS party leader Vojislav Šešelj is "a symbol of ethnic cleansing."

Vojislav Seselj arrives in Belgrade

BELGRADE - Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj, who has been released temporarily after nearly 12 years in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) detention, landed at the Belgrade airport on Wednesday.

Romania, 5th place in EU in terms of industrial production growth in September

Industrial production in the European Union (EU 28) and in the Eurozone rose by 0.6% in September 2014 compared with August 2014, with Romania having been among the countries where the industrial production recorded the highest growth rates month on month, according to the data released on Wednesday by the European Statistical Office (Eurostat).

HDZ Would-Be President Unveils Programme

The candidate of Croatia's main opposition party, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, on Tuesday presented her programme for the presidential elections in January.

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Croatian Ex-Interior Minister and Spy Chief Dies

Boljkovac died in hospital on Monday in Karlovac in central Croatia after being ill for several months.

He was born in Vukova Gorica near Karlovac in 1920 and was an active member of the anti-fascist movement in the area before World War II.

By the end of the war he had become the local chief of the Yugoslav secret service, OZNA, in Karlovac.

Zagreb–Belgrade Flights Resume After 23 Years

Twenty-three years since the last Yugoslav Air Transport, JAT plane took off for Zagreb in Croatia, Air Serbia has reintroduced the service.

JAT flew between the two biggest cities of what was then Yugoslavia from 1947 until August 1991, when war broke out in Croatia.

Linta: Statements by Croatian officials hypocritical

BELGRADE - The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta on Sunday condemned as hypocritical a statement by Croatian President Ivo Josipovic, who has expressed regret over the provisional release of Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj from detention in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) without a conviction.

Vulin: Fascism defeated, but not gone

BELGRADE - The International Day Against Fascism and Antisemitism was marked on Sunday with a memorial concert by the Borislav Pascan Youth Philharmonic Orchestra at the National Theatre.

Fascism has been defeated, but it is not gone, warned Minister of Veteran Affairs Aleksandar Vulin at a ceremony organised by the Serbian government.

Croatia Pushes Ahead With Writing Off Debts

Croatia's government, headed by the Minister of Social Policies and Youth, Milanka Opacic, is pushing ahead with drafting a decree that will scrap the poorest people's debts to banks, communal services and telecommunications firms.

Belgrade-Zagreb flights to be reestablished after 23 years

BELGRADE -- Air Serbia will on December 12, after 23 years, reestablish the air route between Belgrade, Serbia, and Zagreb, Croatia.

The carrier announced it would fly to Zagreb and back twice a day.