Croatian government

BELGRADE - The Coalition of Refugee Associations on Serbia sent an open letter to Croatian President Zoran Milanovic in response to the recent decision of Zadar Mayor Bozidar Kalmeta who issued instructions for the remains of some 80 mined Serb houses and business facilities to be removed without the owners' consent.

BELGRADE - Miodrag Linta, president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations, sent a letter to Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Friday on the occasion of World Refugee Day soliciting solutions to 15 problems of refugees and Serb returnees in Croatia.

“The indictment against Hernadi has been confirmed and he will be tried in absentia,” Zagreb county court spokesperson Kresimir Devcic told Reuters news agency on Tuesday.

The alleged graft took place in 2008-9, when the Croatian government put its shares of the state oil company INA on the market. MOL bought 22.15 per cent of INA’s shares, thus becoming the biggest stakeholder.

BELGRADE – The Croatian ministry of interior has unlawfully erased more than 50,000 ethnic Serbs from the national register of permanent residents in the period between 1991 and the end of 2013, the president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia Miodrag Linta has said.

ZAGREB – Flowers in the colors of the Croatian “Chessboard” flag and shaped in the form of the U symbol of the Ustasha, Croatian pro-Nazi regime responsible for massive killings of Serbs, Jews and Roma in concentration camps during World War II, have been planted at the Jasenovac Memorial Site in central Croatia.

BELGRADE - Croatia and Serbia are preparing an agreement on protection against natural and man-made disasters and on dealing with their aftermath and the agreement will soon be signed, the Belgrade daily newspaper Politika reported on Tuesday.

Croatia backing Balkan European agenda

Croatia's plans to push a Balkan agenda within the EU are shown by non-paper on BiH.

Croatia Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic said the proposal will also keep the region on the EU's radar. [AFP]

Croatia has taken on the role of advocate for the EU integration of other Balkan states.

Authorities checking petition for "referendum on Cyrillic"

ZAGREB -- Croatian authorities will check the validity and number of signatures to a petition asking for "a referendum on the Cyrillic script" to be held in that country.

BELGRADE - The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta on Monday urged the Croatian government to scrap the provisions of its housing programme that discriminate against 40,000 Serb expellees, adding that the deadline to apply for the programme expires on Monday.

ZAGREB - The Serbian Democratic Forum (SDF) accused on Friday the Croatian government that its announcement that it would remove the refugee status from the people who fled Croatia during the 1990s war was intended to stop the return of Serb refugees and complete the ethnic cleansing.