Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic visited on Friday an Air Force base near Zagreb and expressed her concern over the condition of MiG-21 fighters bought from Ukraine, the presidential administration said in a statement.

Bulgarian President Rumen Radev and Croatian counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic demand that countries applying for the EU have to speed up reform, affirm democratic values and the rule of law and protect their minorities, Radev's office says.

BELGRADE - Director of the Jerusalem-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, Efraim Zuroff, says the current situation regarding neo-fascism in Croatia is very bad.

Zuroff has repeatedly warned about the rise of neo-fascism in Croatia, and now say he is not optimistic that the situation could change, except with "a real leadership" in that country.

"The chocolate wars" in the former Yugoslav countries have progressed to another level - this time the involved sides are Slovenia and Croatia.

BELGRADE - It is strange to hear claims of alleged Russian threat from the Croatian authorities, Russia is ready to discuss them if Zagreb were to provide proof, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Sputnik.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said he had been shocked by Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic's public apology for giving Serbian-made chocolate bars to a group of children in Dubrovnik earlier this week.

All this indicates that Croatia does not want good relations with Serbia, Nikolic told the Kurir daily.

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BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said he had been shocked by Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic's public apology for giving Serbian-made chocolate bars to a group of children in Dubrovnik earlier this week.

All this indicates that Croatia does not want good relations with Serbia, Nikolic told the Kurir daily.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has apologized for handing out chocolate made in Serbia to kindergarten children in the town of Dubrovnik.

She added she was "herself unpleasantly surprised."

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has made a gaffe during an interview with RTL Danas, as she spoke about the U.S. presidential elections.

"Americans will decide who our next president will be - I mean, their next president," she said, thus "quickly correcting herself, and smiling faintly because of her verbal gaffe," Croatian website index.hr has reported.

BELGRADE - We will make maximum effort to have the best possible relations with Croatia - we will not threaten anyone because having the largest possible trade volume is a mutual interest, but we will know how to protect our national and state interests, says Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic.