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Daily criticizes Slovenian govt. as "servile to Dacic"
The Slovenian government's decision not to send soldiers and airplanes to Croatia's Operation Storm anniversary parade has been criticized by a Ljubljana daily.
Croatia Court Releases Dinamo Chiefs on Bail
Zagreb County Court on Wednesday ordered the release on bail of Dinamo's executive president, Zdravko Mamic, the club manager, Zoran Mamic, and the former club director, Damir Vrbanovic, for a total of 1.6 million euro.
All suspects left custody prison on Wednesday afternoon, after their bails were deposited at court.
Another form ‘Finlandization’ infecting Euro area?
Another form of “Finlandization” has apparently plagued the Eurozone over the weekend and is now viewed as the main obstacle towards achieving a new bailout deal with crisis-stricken Greece, one that would avert the east Mediterranean country’s euro membership meltdown.
Romania, Croatia Badly Governed, Index Shows
Romania and Croatia are two of the worst governed countries in Europe according to a new study by the Bertelsmann Stiftung's Sustainable Governance Indicators project.
The platform surveyed 41 European and OECD countries in six sectors: economic, social and environmental policies, quality of democracy, executive capacity and executive accountability.
Outlook is Sunny For Croatian Tourism in 2015
Figures released by the Croatian National Tourist Board, HTZ, in its half-yearly report, show a significant upward trend.
In the first six months of 2015, 4.1 million tourists visited Croatia, which was 7 per cent more than in the same period in 2014.
Dinamo Zagreb Bosses Remanded in Custody
Zagreb county court on Sunday refused the bail offer from Dinamo Zagreb football club executive president Zdravko Mamic and his brother, club manager Zoran Mamic, and remanded them both in custody prison for a month.
Croatia Issues Arrest Warrant for Dinamo Chiefs
Croatian Interior Minister Ranko Ostojic told a TV show on Thursday that an internal arrest warrant had been issued for senior officials of the Zagreb football club Dinamo.
The main man in question, Zdravko Mamic, via a video link to the same TV show, called the minister a liar and said he was a victim of a political plot.
Dinamo Club Chiefs Face Charges in Croatia
Croatia's Office for suppression of corruption and organized crime, USKOK, on Wednesday raided the homes and office of the bosses of the Zagreb football club, Dinamo.
They said they suspect the club president, Zdravko Mamic, and manager Zoran Mamic of tax evasion, bribery and other unspecified criminal acts.
Croatia Keeps Adriatic Energy Contracts on Hold
Croatia still has not signed the contract for oil and gas exploration on the Adriatic seabed with five companies that obtained licences in January.
The initial deadline to sign the agreement, set for April, has already been moved.
Turkish Foreign Ministry undergoes major reshuffle
A major reshuffle of some 40 ambassadors has gone into effect, with Öztürk Y?lmaz, the former Turkish consul general to Mosul who was taken hostage last year along with 48 others by Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants for 101 days, appointed as ambassador to Tajikistan's capital of Dushanbe.
Summer tourists: Habits of European travelers
A clear seasonal pattern of tourism activity of residents of the European Union by Eurostat shows that June-Septeber accounts for more than half (51.9%) of the total number of tourism nights spent by EU residents during the whole year. A little more than 60% of these nights were spent in their own country (domestic) while almost 40% were abroad.
Kosovo Pays Dear for Logjam Over Phone Code
Kosovo's inability to obtain its own international telephone prefix has cost it around 65 million euro so far, as it remains obliged to pay companies in Monaco and Slovenia to borrow use of their country codes.
Slovenia Releases Kosovo Ex-Premier Haradinaj
Wartime guerrilla commander turned political leader Ramush Haradinaj, who was detained in Slovenia on a Serbian war crimes arrest warrant, is expected to return to Kosovo after being freed.
Slovenia 'Will Not Extradite' Kosovo Ex-PM to Serbia
The Slovenian justice ministry decided on Thursday that wartime Kosovo Liberation Army commander and former prime minister Haradinaj will not be extradited to Serbia, no matter what a Slovenian court decides to do about the arrest warrant accusing him of war crimes during the 1998-99 conflict.
Haradinaj to remain in Slovenia, court decides
A Court in Kranj, Slovenia, has decided that Ramush Haradinaj must remain in that country as the court must "process his appeal."
This will be done "before proceeding to consider the extradition request of Serbia," it has been announced.