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Following the last minute completion of the accession talks with Croatia at the end of June, the Polish Presidency has been tasked with finalising drafting of the Accession Treaty. To [...]

The General Affairs Council gave its overall political green light, on 21 June, to the conclusion of the accession talks with Croatia by the end of June. The 'remaining issues,' [...]

The European Commission and the Hungarian EU Presidency have made it clear that the Croatian government's plan to appeal the ruling of the UN tribunal against the country's two wartime [...]

Following their country's accession to the EU, Croatian taxpayers will enjoy a few derogations and transitional periods from the aquis communautaire. Upon the temporary closure of negotiations with Croatia on [...]

On the eve of his departure from the post of Croatia's Justice Minister, Ivan Simonovic outlines the country's progress in EU-related reforms, expressing confidence that Croatia is now fully ready [...]

The European Commission expects Croatia to deliver a 'solid track record of concrete results' in its reforms, especially in the area of judiciary, before wrapping up accession talks with the [...]

The level of cooperation of the three Western Balkan countries - Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Serbia - with theaInternational Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) is still not [...]

Despite mounting pressure, the mixed Croatian-Slovenian commission tasked with finding a solution to the border dispute between the two countries has to date failed to come up with a viable [...]

Italian Foreign Affairs Minister Franco Frattini has urged the Czech EU Presidency to embark on a diplomatic offensive to facilitate an agreement between Croatia and Slovenia in their ongoing border [...]

The Western Balkans will again focus high on the EU agenda in the first half of 2009. Following Slovenia's example, the Czech Presidency wants to bring the region closer to [...]

With time running out fast, the European Commission is stepping up its pressure on Slovenia and Croatia to settle their border dispute as soon as possible to prevent further delay [...]

The European Commission has proposed setting up a special senior expert group with a distinguished expert in conflict resolution, Martti Ahtisaari, as chairman to help Croatia and Slovenia to solve [...]

Amid tensions over the unresolved border issue' between Slovenia and Croatia, the European Union rubber-stamped, on 30 October, the closing of one chapter (on external relations) in Zagreb's EU accession [...]

Slovenia has upheld its decision to put on hold EU accession talks on several chapters with Croatia, saying that due to some disagreements between the two countries over the border [...]

The hopes are high that the Lisbon Treaty will be ratified by the five remaining member states (Ireland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Sweden(1)) in 2009 and the text [...]

The raison d'etre of EU enlargement is to extend the area of liberty and democracy, peace and prosperity throughout Europe and, to this end, the Western Balkan countries have a [...]

Croatia's accession negotiations moved forward, on 17 June, after the Council agreed to launch talks with Zagreb on two new chapters: freedom of movement of workers (2) and social policy [...]

The EU praised Croatia, on 28 April, for good progress achieved in its EU accession talks, but it also urged Zagreb to step up reforms, especially in the area of [...]

NATO's enlargement could be slowed down, according to the conclusions of the 6 March meeting of foreign affairs ministers from the alliance's 26 member countries. While three countries (Croatia, Albania [...]

In an interview with Europolitics New Neighbours, MEP Hannes Swoboda (PES, Austria), the rapporteur on Croatia, identifies the remaining outstanding issues which Croatia has to overcome to successfully conclude its [...]

The European Union approved, on 12 February, a revised version of the Accession Partnership with Croatia, which stipulate more strict conditions for Zagreb's future membership of the Union. The catalogue [...]

In an apparent attempt to increase pressure on Croatia, Slovenia, holder of the EU Presidency, has decided to put a discussion on the ongoing dispute over the Ecological and Fisheries [...]

EU member states have decided to move ahead with their accession talks with Croatia and Turkey by rubberstamping the opening of new chapters for negotiations. The EU's permanent representatives (Coreper) [...]

The European Union reiterated its call on Croatia not to enforce the recently activated special ecological and fisheries protection zone (ZERP) in the Adriatic. Speaking on the sidelines of the [...]

It is almost certain that by 19 December, when the EU Presidency is set to meet with Croatia at the Accession Conference in Brussels, no more than two chapters will [...]

Croatia is willing to take part in a special high-level meeting with Slovenia and Italy, as proposed recently by the European Commission, to solve the urgent problem of Croatia's self-proclaimed [...]

One day, Croatia's boat may come in Could EU accession do the trick? FOR a gruelling decade, the world viewed the Balkans through the prism of the region's most strife-torn [...]

EU Foreign Ministers decided at the March 23 European Council in Brussels to set up a new task force to assess how well the Croatian authorities have been cooperating on [...]

A new Balkan niggle--over the Adriatic THEY should build a tunnel between Ljubljana and Belgrade, ran a Yugoslav joke in communist times, so that the Slovenes and Serbs could get [...]

* Polish telecoms firm Elektrim has swung back into the black following a painful 18-month restructuring programme. The firm reported profits of Z129.5m ($27.9m) for last year, compared to a [...]

THE good news is that the new Croatian war due to begin on April 1st has been cancelled. The bad news is that the new Bosnian war scheduled to start [...]

WING out of Zagreb on to the motorway and follow the signs for Slavonski Brod. It is rush-hour, and traffic is pouring out of the Croatian capital. Where is Slavonski [...]

WHEN the European Community's foreign ministers announced that they were recognising two of Yugoslavia's four breakaway republics, they had received learned advice. Yet the pair they recognised on January 15th [...]

Yugoslavia: recognition for Slovenia and Croatia The recognition of Slovenia and Croatia as independent states by the European Community and a dozen other countries on 15th January marks the end [...]

In pushing towards recognition of Slovenia and Croatia as independent states, the European Community is coming to terms with two new realities. The first is that Yugoslavia has in effect [...]

Albania and Croatia have been formally invited by NATO for accession talks to join NATO. This is bound to strengthen the security for all nations in the Euro-Atlantic region.