Andrej Plenković
Stop your blackmail, Croatian PM tells Slovenia
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković urged fellow EU member Slovenia on Thursday to stop its diplomatic "blackmail" related to a border issue between the two ex-Yugoslav republics and return to dialogue.
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Croatian Defence Minister Offers to Quit over Fires
While visiting fire-affected areas near the Croatian coastal city of Split on Tuesday, Croatian Defence Minister and Vice Prime Minister Damir Krsticevic offered his resignation over the military's allegedly slow reaction to the blazes on the coast, Jutarnji list newspaper reported.
"EU wants to create mini-Yugoslavia in Balkans"
Reporting about the Western Balkans Summit in Trieste, German newspaper Die Welt writes that "the EU wants to create a new mini-Yugoslavia in the Balkans."
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HDZ Woes Suggest New Croatia Polls Likely
With the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, losing potential partners for forming a new governing majority in the Croatian parliament, new general elections seem to be a realistic scenario in the coming months, an analyst told BIRN.
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HDZ Hardliner Infuriates Croatia's Minority MPs
A key representative of ethnic minority communities in the Croatian parliament is insisting that Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic must distance himself from hardliners if he wishes to remain in power.
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Croatia Local Elections Could Boost Renegade Rightists
Controversial former Culture Minister Zlatko Hasanbegovic, along with other two independent right-wing MPs - Bruna Esih and Zeljko Glasnovic - could withdraw their support for the government led by the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, an analyst told BIRN.
Croatian HDZ Parliamentary Majority 'Unlikely to Last'
The HDZ's wafer-thin new majority in the Croatian parliament - 76 out of 151 MPs in total - is likely to be just a temporary strategy employed by the party to push through legislation, with new elections likely to follow, veteran political Zarko Puhovski analyst told BIRN.
Croatian HDZ Musters New Majority in Parliament
The Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, has remained in power after proving it still has a new majority in parliament and naming one of its MPs as the new chair of parliament, thus avoiding snap elections in June.
On Friday, it proved that it still had majority support by voting in HDZ MP Gordan Jandrokovic as the new chair of parliament.
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Croatian Minister's Survival Leaves Crisis Unresolved
Ahead of talks between President Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic and leaders of Croatia's parliamentary parties and MPs on Friday, a resolution to the political crisis in the country is not in sight.
Petrov Quits as Chair of Croatia Parliament
The head of MOST, Bozo Petrov, has resigned from his position as chair of Croatia's parliament after an opposition-backed move to unseat Finance Minister Zdravko Maric narrowly failed on Thursday.
Maric remained in his post after the failure of a no-confidence vote in parliament, when the opposition failed to gather the necessary 76 votes.
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