“The purchase of 4.5 billion doses of the Covid-19 vaccine for 450 million EU residents is the biggest corruption scandal in the history of mankind,” according to Croatian politican Mislav Kolakušić. Kolakušić, who is a lawyer and a Member of the European Parliament said that the figures equate to “10 doses for every man, woman and child in Europe, including newborn babies, for an injection... 

A Croatian official has called for major mainstream media outlets to be deemed “terrorist organizations” due to “fake news and hate they spread.” Mislav Kolakušić, a former judge and politically independent member of European Parliament (MEP), slammed a variety of prominent media organizations along with European Union bodies in a blistering speech on the floor this week in Strasbourg, France. MEP... 

The Croatian parliament has approved a law on adopting the euro on January 1, 2023. Lawmakers voted 117-13 in favor of replacing the kuna with the European single currency. Under the legislation, prices in Croatia will be displayed in both currencies from September this year, and used in parallel throughout next year. The government says the adoption of the euro should remove currency risk, reduce... 

With all its talk of black-on-white war, YouTube’s “hate speech”-filtering AI can’t tell the difference between chess players and violent racists. Perhaps leaving robots in charge of the English language isn’t such a good idea. Chess is now seen as racist for also white moving first. Croatian chess player Antonio Radic, known to his million subscribers as ‘Agadmator,’ runs the world’s... 

LOL! Politics has become such a joke nowadays :-D Ava Karabatic, a former Playboy model, reality TV star and artist has thrown her hat in the ring for the 2020 Croatian presidential elections on a broad platform targeting the country’s youth vote. The 31-year-old former model made the announcement via her Instagram account and personal blog. The central tenets of her platform include increasing... 

The Balkan Peninsula is seeing an increase in migrant traffic, particularly by young males traveling to Croatia and beyond, according to officials. Border police officer Gilio Toic-Sintic appeared on Austrian news to warn about an endless “flow of refugees” accumulating in Bosnian towns along the Croatian border as they push on towards the EU frontier. “We have picked up 7,200 migrants... 

Residents of Croatia’s highest village are terrified after a series of home invasions and robberies by migrants, according to local media. Begovo Razdolje, a tiny settlement with an official population of 48 mostly-elderly inhabitants, sits at nearly 3,500 feet above sea level, but even the high altitude has not served as an effective bulwark against mass migration. Locals are desperately seeking... 

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic will not sign the UN’s Global Compact for Migration (GCM), Croatian newsportal Direktno reports. The website bases the decision on a Facebook post by Croatian TV journalist Velimir Bujanec. He asked her position on the GCM after a lot of people we’re interested in her stance. In the answer his editorial board received, President Grabar-Kitarovic literally... 

Officials in Croatia have announced that the Eastern European country is buckling under the flood of thousands of refugees who have entered the country on their path to reach Western Europe, asking newcomers to go to neighboring Hungary or Slovenia instead. Speaking at a news conference in the border town of Tovarnik on Friday, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said that his country could no longer... 

A dangerous find has been discovered in the warehouse of radioactive substances at the Croatian Roger Boscovich Institute. These are 400 kilos of unregistered and unguarded uranium. The building is situated in the centre of the capital city Zagreb. The Croatian journalists claim, that private company staff responsible for the Institute buildings cleaning accidentally ran across the materials marked... 

Village of Bobodol, near Knin, in central Croatia. Croatian government have gotten creditors on board a plan to erase the debts of some 60,000 poorest citizens. The “fresh start” scheme targets less than 1 percent of the entire debt, but is hoped to boost the economy in the long-term. The unorthodox measure was voted for by the government on January 15 and comes into force on Monday. To be eligible... 

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic votes in Croatia’s presidential run-off on January 11, 2015. Croatia’s opposition conservative Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has won the country’s presidential run-off following a tight competition with incumbent President Ivo Josipovic, partial results show. Grabar-Kitarovic, a former foreign minister and an ex-assistant secretary general of NATO, garnered 50.44 percent of... 

Switzerland has refused to sign a protracted deal with Croatia, initially agreed over a year ago, which would have given Croatians unrestricted access to the Swiss employment market. The Swiss say it’s not viable “in its current form”. Simultaneously, the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) has called on Switzerland’s government to quickly limit immigration to the country from Eastern Europe.... 

Croatians voting in this weekend’s referendum have given the green light to the country’s accession to the European Union in July 2013. However with only 47 per cent of those eligible turning out to vote, enthusiasm for the initiative seems muted. With nearly all ballots counted, Croatia’s state referendum commission said that about 66 per cent of those who took part in the referendum answered... 

Croatia's Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor is welcomed by EU Council President Herman Van Rompuy. Croatia has been given the conditional go-ahead to join the EU, after six years of preparations marred by slow democratic reforms in Zagreb and the EU’s reluctance to expand. The former Yugoslav state of 4.4 million people should be able to wrap up accession negotiations next week, EU leaders said...