Andrej Plenkovic

The idea has been floated these last days by Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.

"If we were to seek compensation for the Homeland War (1990s war in Croatia), the Serbs would do it for the Second World War, we would do it for the First World War, and the Serbs would then do it for the Battle of Kosovo," Matic told N1 broadcaster.

The Croatian military is on the verge of selecting Israel's used F-16 jets to take the place of its dwindling supply of Soviet MiG-21s, just six of which are estimated to be operational. The fleet of 21 60-year-old MiG-21s is in dire need of replacement.

Serbian Foreign Minister and First Deputy PM Ivica Dacic has opened the exhibition "Jasenovac - the Right Not to Forget,", staged at the UN in New York City.

In his address, Dacic invited Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic to travel to Jasenovac and bow before the victims.

Germany's Deutschlandfunk public radio recently published "a big feature program about the situation in Croatia" - Croatian media are reporting.

In his address, Dacic invited Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic to travel to Jasenovac and bow before the victims.

Jasenovac was a death camp set up by the Ustasha regime of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) - a wartime Nazi-allied entity - and a place of mass murder of Serbs, Jews, and Roma.

The report describes Croatia as a country fostering a climate of hatred and intimidation, and one "increasingly moving to the right" - while ruled by "a radical political discourse where the keywords are 'enemy, homeland, nation, and, treason'."

After months of rows and cancelled meetings, Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar is visiting Zagreb on Tuesday to meet his Croatian counterpart Andrej Plenkovic in the hope of moving forwards towards a resolution of the territorial dispute between the two states.

Slobodan Praljak, whom the The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) on Wednesday sentenced to 20 years in prison for war crimes, died after drinking poison in the courtroom.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic confirmed this during an extraordinary news conference, and offered his condolences to the family.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic confirmed this during an extraordinary news conference, and offered his condolences to the family.

A spokesman for the ICTY, Nenad Golcevski, also confirmed the death, and said Dutch authorities had launched an independent investigation.

Media experts have hit back at claims made by top Croatian politicians, including the PM, that the media are engaging in a form of "hybrid warfare" against them and Croatia.