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Croatia’s Conflict-Ravaged Vukovar Tires of War Tourism
Vukovar was still in ruins when Anamarija Sivric started working as a tour guide there, not long after the town was reintegrated into Croatia.
At the time, Sivric recalled, "Vukovar was Hiroshima".
Serbian Security Service ‘Didn’t Send Paramilitary Trainer to Croatia’
Witness Dejan Lucic told the retrial of Serbian State Security Service officials Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic at the Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals in The Hague on Thursday that the defendants did not send Dragan Vasiljkovic, alias Captain Dragan, to Croatia in 1991 to set up a training camp for rebel Serb fighters.
Croatian Auschwitz Survivor Branko Lustig Dies
Hollywood film producer Branko Lustig, who survived internment in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, died early on Thursday morning at the age of 88.
Last Despatches: The Voice of a Croatian Town Under Siege
"The wounded defenders are still holding out, but the burning question is for how long… Incendiary bombs have been dropped on the city several times," Sinisa Glavasevic reported from besieged Vukovar on November 9, 1991 for Croatian Radio's 'Chronicle of the Day'.
Croatia Introduces the Euro by the End of the Next Government's Term
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković says the country's strategic goal is to meet the criteria by the end of the next government's term and adopt the euro as its official currency.
Vucic made a decision not to travel to Zagreb, he enclosed a letter with rationale
President Vucic was invited to the EPP Congress as the leader of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS).
According to Blic, Vucic sent a letter to EPP President, Joseph Daul, containing rationale for his decision.
Here's integral version of the letter:
"Dear President Daul, my dear friend,
Record: Bulgarians Abroad Have Sent over 1 Billion in the Country
Bulgarians abroad broke the record by the amount of money they sent to their homeland.
For the first time in history, just over a billion and 100 million euros is the money which migrants transferred to Bulgarian accounts, NOVA reported.
According to statistics, about 80% of the money comes from EU countries. The exact amount is EUR 833 million.
Serbia Sent Refugees from Croatia, Bosnia to Frontlines: Report
The Humanitarian Law Centre NGO said in a report published on Wednesday that in the summer of 1995, the Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs forcibly mobilised around 10,000 refugees and took them back to territories under the control of the Bosnian Serb Army in Bosnia and the rebel Serb-run Army of the Republic of Serbian Krajina in Croatia.
North Macedonia Trails Balkan Peers on LGBT Tourist Safety
Serbia ranks as the safest destination for LGBT tourists and North Macedonia as the worst among Balkan states featured on a list of 150 most-visited countries published by travel bloggers Asher and Lyric Fergusson.
Harness the Outrage Triggered by Macron’s Enlargement Veto
Macron's 'Non' triggered a deluge of analyses and op-eds explaining how the French position would undermine the successes of North Macedonia and Albania, that it dealt huge damage to EU credibility in the Western Balkans and cast a shadow over the region's European perspective, supposedly set in stone in Thessaloniki 16 years ago.
Croatian War Veterans Demand State Attorney’s Resignation
A day after Zagreb State Attorney's Office dismissed criminal complaints filed by war veterans against Milorad Pupovac, which claimed that the Croatian Serb leader had damaged the country's reputation, the leader of a disabled war veterans' association said on Tuesday that they will now try to make Chief State Attorney Drazen Jelenic step down from his position.
Macron’s ‘Time-Bomb’ Remark Betrays Wider Anti-Muslim Prejudice
That concern stems from a notion that a country full of people who are both Muslim and white must be an oxymoron: Bosnian Muslims may seem like good Westerners but they could be secret fanatics, all the more dangerous because they confound racial profiling measures.
Blanket demonisation
Romania readies for go-live on Nov 19 of second wave of Single Intraday Coupling project
The Regulatory Committee of the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) approved on Monday two orders required for the coupling of Romania's intraday electricity market to the markets of the neighboring countries, ANRE said in a release.
Bulgaria Becomes Part of the Common European Electricity Market
Bulgaria joins the common European electricity market, the Electricity System Operator announced. Together with Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovenia, Bulgaria will now be involved in unifying the electricity markets.
So far, there were 14 European countries involved in the union.
The first deliveries are planned for November 20 this year.
Reforming ‘Shame’ Law Won’t Help Croatian Media Freedom
"Every journalist in this country can welcome the step of removing one offence [shaming] from criminal law," Slavica Lukic, a member of the HND executive board, told BIRN.