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COUNTRY BACKGROUND FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Post-war construction boom has tailed off The government estimated that the 1991-95 war caused physical damage worth US$27bn, which was concentrated around the [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT The cabinet is discussing a draft law to regulate the founding, operation and closure of public enterprises. According to the proposal, the law [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT The law on foreign-currency operations should be discussed in parliament this month, according to Adolf Matejka, a deputy governor of the Croatian National [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT OVERVIEW Croatia's forthcoming parliamentary election looks certain to be held ahead of schedule, probably in October or November of this year. Although the [...]

COUNTRY VIEW FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Short-term risk event Tensions among the coalition parties have already dealt a blow to Croatia's short-term reform prospects. Further bickering could fuel public [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Cabinet officials have said that the government will submit to the parliament a law on consumer protection that should be in line with [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT The cabinet has adopted and forwarded the law on foreign currency operations to the parliament. The law aims at immediate partial liberalisation of [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT OVERVIEW In spite of increasing political turmoil in recent months, the overall outlook for Croatia in 2003-04 looks positive. The agreement concluded with [...]

COUNTRY VIEW FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT OVERVIEW: Since Croatia concluded a stand-by arrangement with the IMF in late 2002, the main parties in the government coalition have increasingly clashed [...]

COUNTRY VIEW FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT OVERVIEW: A resolution to the long-standing dispute between the government and the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague over [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT The privatisation fund has announced a public tender for a 52% state stake in daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija. Interested investors have until January [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT The government and the IMF have agreed a new $140m stand-by agreement, according to Hans Flickenschild, the Fund's desk chief for Croatia. The [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM BBC MONITORING Text of report in English by Croatian news agency HINA Zagreb, 8 December: On the macroeconomic and financial fronts, the business year 2003 will not [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT The government presented its draft 2003 budget to parliament at the end of October, envisaging increased spending but a smaller budget deficit compared [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT The domestic political scene has been dominated in the second half of 2002 by the indictment of a retired Croatian general, Janko Bobetko, [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT Croatia has become the eighth country to sign the Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), with membership to take effect from March 2003. [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT The state privatisation fund has recommended that the government sell a 62.3% state stake in hotel company Suncani Hvar to health-resort operator Terme [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT CROATIA: State-owned agriculture and industry co-operative Vrbovec will be offered for sale for 15m ($14.9m), according to Bojan Bevc, the company's chairman. MACEDONIA: [...]

COUNTRY BRIEFING FROM THE ECONOMIST INTELLIGENCE UNIT The new government has announced its key policy aims, which include a reduction of unemployment, a cut in public debt, and an increase [...]

On 9 December, Croatia will sign its EU accession treaty at the EU summit in Brussels. The country will thus become the Union's 28th member state, on 1 July 2013. [...]

Croatia has wrapped up talks on three chapters out of eleven still remaining to be closed, bringing the country one step closer to finalising its EU accession negotiations in the [...]

Debts for drugs and medical equipment have reached record levels in Croatia. Hospitals and pharmacies owe suppliers 4.0 billion kuna ($720.0 million). Croatian television reported that some institutions had taken [...]

The European Investment Bank (EIB) announced on December 23 that it was providing a Euro 90 million loan to Plinacro, the Croatian state-owned gas transportation company, for a project that [...]

On 18 December, the head of the OSCE mission to Croatia noted that with a few revisions, a draft law on Croatian Radio-Television (HRT) could provide a good basis for [...]

A prominent European media expert will visit Croatia to give technical advice to the government on aligning broadcast-media laws with European standards. Professor Karol Jakubowicz, an OSCE consultant and chairman [...]

Russia/Yugoslavia boost energy ties Gazprom will this year supply Yugoslavia with 1.5bn [m.sup.3] of natural gas, Russian vice-premier Viktor Khristenko announced last week in Moscow after a meeting with his [...]