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Zagreb, June 26 (CP) – A third of the Croats thinks the European Union is a good thing, while a quarter believe that it is bad for Croatia, the results of Eurobarometre show.
As many as 39 percent of those surveyed believe the EU was neither good nor bad.

Zagreb, June 25 (CP) — The French European Affairs Secretary Jean-Pierre Jouyet has said speaking at a conference on Balkans’ progress  that Croatia had made a lot of progress in its accession negotiations and the aim of the French EU presidency will be the opening and closing of nearly all of the negotiation chapters.
Jouyet said […]

Zagreb, June 17 (CP) – Croatia opens two more negotiation chapters on Tuesday in its EU bid, Social Policy and Employment and Workforce Freedom of Movement.
The two chapters are the first ones that have had had set conditions for their opening.
So far Croatia has opened 18 negotiating chapters and two have been temporarily closed.
This comes […]

Zagreb, June 13 (CP) – The failure of Ireland to support the Lisbon treaty during a referendum held on Friday is not to endanger Croatia’s entry into the EU, as it is guranteed under the current rules.
Early returns from the Irish referendum show that 53.4 percent of the voters voted against the treaty.
The result may […]

Zagreb, April 9 (CP) — A debate on the European Parliament resolution on Croatia concluded that Croatia had made good progress in accession negotiations and the solving of the ZERP issue enabled the faster completion of the accession process, if Croatia introduces all the necessary reforms.
If Croatia were to complete all the necessary reforms it […]

Zagreb, April 2 (CP) – According to the latest poll conducted by Promocija Plus claims some 60 percent of those polled were in favour of Croatia joining NATO, but at the same time 76 percent want to see a referendum on the issue held.
The not so good news is that EU membership support has dropped […]

Zagreb, March 13 (CP) – Croatian PM Ivo Sanader speaking in Brussels said that by their conduct in parliament during the vote on ZERP, opposition parties had attempted to destabilize the government.
Sanader said that the opposition had voted against the postponement of the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) implementation for internal reasons, as its […]

Zagreb, March 13 (CP) — Speaking in Brussels on Thursday, the European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso announced following a meeting with Croatian PM Ivo Sanader that the European Commission would state the goal date for completion of Croatia’s negotiations with the EU in Autumn 2009.
Barosso did say, however, that this would happen if Croatia […]

Zagreb, March 8 (CP) – Croatia’s assistant Foreign Minister Neven Pelicaric has spoken to Swedish Ambassador to Zagreb, Lars Freden expressing concern over the statement of his colleague in Belgrade Krister Bringeus made on Thursday that Croatia and Serbia would joint the EU together between 2012 and 2015 and demanding an official position on this.
Ambassador […]

Zagreb, March 7 (CP) – After holding an emergency meeting with coalition partners, HSLS and HSS, PM Ivo Sanader said that the coalition had not dissolved over the issue of the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) or the EU and stressed that it needed to be seen what was more important if Croatia cannot […]