Croatia

Former soldier Velibor Solaja was acquitted of killing of an elderly female civilian during the Croatian Army’s controversial ‘Medak Pocket’ operation against Serb forces in September 1993.

Turkey and Croatia look to improve business ties

Business leaders seek opportunities for new investment and deeper co-operation.

Business leaders from Turkey and Croatia recently gathered in Istanbul to discuss new ideas for deepening economic ties between the two countries.

Banned Croatian player a reminder of need to halt hate speech

Sport officials call for co-operation between all stakeholders to continue efforts to stop hate speech and fan violence.

As Croatia takes to the field in the 2014 World Cup, it does so without one of its veteran players.

A Belgrade court confirmed the indictment of five former Serbian fighters for alleged war crimes over the killings of 16 civilians in the Croatian village of Sotin near Vukovar in 1991.

The court in Zagreb on Friday confirmed that Sanader would go to jail but reduced the sentence from ten years to eight and a half.

Sanader, who was the country's premier from 2003 to 2009, was convicted of taking bribes from Hungarian oil group MOL in exchange for allowing it to take a dominant position in Croatian oil firm INA.

A witness said that former Croatian Defence Council fighter Josip Tolic, on trial for abusing Serb detainees in Odzak and Bosanski Brod, fatally assaulted a prisoner held in a school.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Croatia to pay 20,000 euro in damages for not properly investigating the wartime killing of a Serb civilian from the town of Sisak.

HDZ leader Tomislav Karamarko said on Thursday after a party meeting in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar that the opposition centre-right party had taken a brave decision in putting up a woman as candidate for the country's presidency.

“She belongs to the HDZ, to the people’s party and to Christian Democratic milieu. And she’s a woman," he said.

Witnesses told the trial of former paramilitary Leonardo Jankovic how they were illegally arrested by Serb secessionist troops in the Croatian village of Zamlaca in 1991.

“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.