1996 - Croatia restores diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. Croatia joins Council of Europe. 1997 - Tudjman re-elected as president. 1998 - Croatia resumes control over the fourth UN area ...

Croatia has the oldest population in the immediate region, meaning that despite amendments, the import of foreign labour is ...

There are many weapons kept in private homes in Croatia after the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said he was "horrified and dismayed." ...

Yugoslavia was first formed as a kingdom in 1918 and then recreated as a Socialist state in 1945 after the Axis powers were defeated in World War II. The constitution established six constituent ...

since its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Milanović, a vocal critic of Plenković, frequently accuses the HDZ of systemic corruption. The election comes as Croatia grapples with rising ...

Croatia’s opposition-backed President Zoran ... since gaining independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. Primorac, 59, entered politics in the early 2000s, when he was science and education minister ...

Analysts, however, believe the core of his appeal is his fierce rejection of the conservative HDZ, the country’s strongest party, which has dominated the political scene since Croatia gained ...

In the former Republic of Yugoslavia, the subterranean Željava ... This underground airbase, buried deep within a mountain along the Croatia-Bosnia & Herzegovina border, was built to withstand ...

Croatia, now a member of the European Union, was part of the former, Communist-run Yugoslavia after WWII. The six-member federation broke up in the 1990s’ in a series of ethnic conflicts fueled ...

1996 - Croatia restores diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. Croatia joins Council of Europe. 1997 - Tudjman re-elected as president. 1998 - Croatia resumes control over the fourth UN area ...