Ivo Sanader

He will replace Jess Baily, who was appointed as US ambassador in Skopje in December 2014.

Yee is a diplomat and current US deputy assistant secretary of state for Europe and European affairs.

He is in charge of United States relations with the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe.

Grabar Kitarovic said on Tuesday that Hungary's decision to block Croatia's membership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, was not made to "blackmail" Croatia over an ongoing legal dispute about Hungarian energy company MOL.

Croatian daily Jutarnji list reported on Monday that Zsolt Hernadi, chairman of the Hungarian energy company MOL had filed a lawsuit against Croatia before the European Court of Human Rights.

Croatian daily Vecernji list on Thursday will launch what it calls "the most anticipated book of the decade", written by the former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, who led the country for several years in the 2000s and was subsequently indicted for alleged corruption.

With war still ongoing in Syria, plans for Croatian energy company INA to regain control over the gas and oil fields it partly owns in the country are viewed with some doubt by a leading expert.

Former general director of INA Davor Stern told BIRN that it is hard to say if regaining control over the fields is physically possible.

After reports that Croatia's Vice-Prime Minister is under investigation for war crimes in Bosnia, a Croatian expert says Zagreb could take over the prosecution of crimes allegedly committed by Croatian citizens in Bosnia.

After 23 days of negotiations with future partners in government, Andrej Plenkovic, president of the leading centre-right party, the Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, is due to be named prime minister-designate on Monday by the country's President.

The leader of Croatia's HDZ party has confirmed that a decision on Serbia's ruling SNS party bid to join the EPP has been postponed.

But in a statement for the N1 broadcaster, Andrej Plenkovic denied this was done in order to help his HDZ win more right-wing votes in Croatia's early parliamentary elections on Sunday.

Former Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader left prison custody on Wednesday following a ruling by the Zagreb County Court that morning.

The county court decision came after Croatia's constitutional court terminated Sanader's custody on Tuesday, giving the county court until December 1 to pass a new decision. Sanader had been in prison since November 2012.

Ivo Sanader, the former Croatian Prime Minister, will leave custody prison in Zagreb after posting bail, following a Supreme Court ruling passed on Thursday.