Serbia-Russia military exercise near border worries Croatia
Croatian daily Jutarnji List is reporting that Russian soldiers will this coming fall take part in “as many as two” military drills in Serbia. One of them, that will happen “30 kilometers from the Croatian border,” means that Serbia and Russia are “poking the West in the eye,” military analysts have been quoted as saying. The first of these exercises, “Slavic Brotherhood 2016,” will take...
Croatia puts up barriers on border bridge with Serbia
Croatia, which last year saw hundreds of thousands of migrants pass through on their way to Western Europe, has erected metal barriers on a bridge at the border with Serbia to prevent illegal entry. The interior ministry said in a statement it had set up the barriers on the bridge over the Danube River at the Batina-Bezdan border crossing. “The technical barriers could be activated to completely close the bridge,” it said....
Many Croats won’t wait around for promised business reforms
Like many Croats, Marino Rescek is looking for work abroad after years of hoping that prospects will improve at home have brought nothing but frustration, and reforms that got the thumbs-up from Brussels last week have not convinced him things will change. The 32-year-old has a small accountancy firm in Zagreb with clients in businesses from tourism to construction. Recently, he gave up on his plan to invest in a small hotel on the...
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