Prime Ministers of Croatia

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.

As a Croatian investigative parliamentary committee prepares to hear the first testimonies on how the country's biggest private company, Agrokor, was created, many irregularities from the privatisation processes of the 1990s are expected to be revealed.

As the Croatian government prepares to spend more on 1990s war veterans, as well as purchasing 12 military jets and covering debts in the health sector, it risks increasing the country's budget deficit, experts warned.

Minister for European Integration Jadranka Joksimovic said in Brussels on Tuesday that Serbia now has a certain European future.

This is influenced by internal reforms in the country, the strategy on enlargement of the president of the European Commission, but also the announced continuity in German foreign policy and policy towards the Balkans, the government quoted her as saying.

Cerar cancelled the 27 September visit to Croatia after Andrej Plenković, the Croatian prime minister, offered in his address to the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly the arbitration tribunal's decision on the border between Croatia and Slovenia as an example of how international law is being undermined.

Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and his Slovenian counterpart, Miro Cerar, meeting in New York for the UN General Assembly session, agreed to meet again in Zagreb on September 27 to discuss the dispute over the territorial waters between Croatia and Slovenia in the Piran Gulf.

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.

The Youth Initiative for Human Rights said it was threatened by a member of the governing Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ because of its campaign apologising to Serb victims of the 1995 military operation ‘Storm’.

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.

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."