Croatian nationalism

The 37,203 registered Croatian voters living outside the country - often referred to as Diaspora - played a key role in deciding the winner of the Croatian presidential elections.

Croatian presidential candidate on conditions for Serbia

ZAGREB -- A Croatian presidential candidate has said that she would condition Serbia's EU membership path "with the return of the missing persons from the (1990s) war."

With the second round of the presidential elections scheduled for Sunday, the race between incumbent, Ivo Josipovic, and the centre-right challenger, Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic, has entered its last days.

Both candidates made the final pitch for swing voters as polls predict the gap closing between them.

Josipovic and Grabar Kitarovic, the candidate from the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, finished almost neck-and-neck in the contest after the vast majority of the votes were counted on Monday morning, and will now face a second-round run-off for the presidency on January 11.

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Ahead of Sunday's election, Croatia's presidential candidates have tightened their belts in deference to the economic crisis.

The amounts of money being spent on their campaigns turn out to be markedly less than in the last presidential election.

The opposition Croatian Democratic Union party invited Branimir Glavas, who is in jail in Bosnia, to events to mark the 15th anniversary of the death of former president Franjo Tudjman.

BELGRADE - Head of the Coalition of Refugee Associations Miodrag Linta wants the Croatian authorities to publicly condemn the Ustasha graffiti painted of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) parish centre in Vinkovci and do everything in their power to arrest and punish the culprits of that and a number of other ani-Serb incidents.

Fascist graffiti on Serbian Church property in Croatia

VINKOVCI -- Ustasha graffiti have been painted on the building of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) parish center in Vinkovci, Croatia.

Grabar Kitarovic, the presidential candidate coming from the strongest opposition party, the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, officially registered her presidential candidacy on Friday.

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The HDZ on Tuesday led the inaugural session of the new Federation entity parliament in Sarajevo along with its coalition partners, the mainly Bosniak Party of Democratic Action, SDA, and the Democratic Front, DF, after the elections in October.

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