Croatia

12.February 2026. Jaroslav Pecnik

Plenković's dangerous hunting in the dark

The recent success of Croatian handball players served the ruling HDZ as a backdrop for a political showdown with dissidents, primarily with the mayor of Zagreb, Tomislav Tomašević. At first glance, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković won, but a second look shows a different picture. For now, the only thing that is certain is that the loser of Plenković's political maneuvers is Croatian democracy

The tenth year of Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković's mandate

12.November 2025 Jaroslav Pecnik

Counterfeiters

The escalation of the Ustasha black shirts is not only a consequence of war, nationalist indoctrination, revisionism, political manipulations, but an expression of social neglect and social hopelessness, which Plenković persistently keeps silent about or justifies with bizarre "double connotations", in which the Ustasha salute "Za dom spremni" is only the tip of a huge nationalist, Ustašoid iceberg rolling under the surface of the sea

TV maniac

09.July 2025 Dragan Ilic

Summoning the devil

The collective frustration of Thompson's right-wing and ultra-right-leaning audience is confusing. Especially since the Croatian nationalists fulfilled all historical plans - from an independent state, through membership in the EU and NATO to the reduction of the number of Serbs to the level of a statistical error

Croatia

30.December 2024 MJ

What is the secret of Zoran Milanović's electoral success?

In the first round of the presidential elections in Croatia, the current president Zoran Milanović won with 49 percent of the votes. What is the key to his victory and why a large part of Croatian citizens love Milanović

Zoran Milanovic

Presidential elections in Croatia

22.November 2024 TS

Milanović is going for another mandate: President for President

The presidential elections in Croatia are scheduled for December 29, and there is every chance that Zoran Milanović's main opponent will be Dragan Primorac, a candidate supported by the ruling HDZ. Can anyone stand in the way of the most popular politician in Croatia in an attempt to secure a new presidential mandate

Zoran Milanovic

Region

17.April 2024. MJ

For the first time on Wednesday: Croatia chooses between Milanović and Plenković

Parliamentary elections in Croatia started in the middle of the week. Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and his Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) and President Zoran Milanović, who, despite criticism, leads the opposition Social Democratic Party are weighing their forces against them. Research shows that Croatia is facing an uncertain election race

Croatian parliamentary elections

03.April 2024. Boro Rašeta

Horse riding in the Presidential Palace

Croatian President Zoran Milanović spent the last three years of his mandate in a furious style, behaving like a "raging bull". He attacked, did not choose his words, slapped his opponents, drew left and right - more to the right than to the left. Upon his entry into the election arena, the HDZ began to hyperventilate because they immediately realized that he had found them "atomic from the right" - a state of shock set in. Milanović curses Prime Minister Andrej Plenković as a "Brussels poodle" and "a man who is not interested in the interests of Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina."

Croatia and Serbia: See the difference

20.march 2024 Đorđe Pavićević

It doesn't matter how it is in the neighborhood

Pre-election excitement is significantly increased by the radicalization of the conflict between the HDZ and the opposition, especially its left-liberal part. Comparisons of the current government in Zagreb with the regime of Aleksandar Vučić, accusations of state capture, deep polarization and the presentation of the election as a fateful issue are irresistibly reminiscent of the political atmosphere here. Of course, it is part of the election campaign, but political logic indicates that these elections will be more than ordinary

Region

17.February 2024. S.Ć.

Croatian police are investigating the Ministry of Culture over EU money

On the order of the European Prosecutor's Office, the premises of the Ministry of Culture of Croatia were searched due to suspicion of illegal spending of money from EU funds. Three years ago, Serbia received a loan from the European Bank for development, which it still has not implemented

Side effects

13.February 2024. Teofil Pančić

Cheerful brothers, their sad mother

This is how a country turns into an autocracy: not because politicians are corrupt, lying, incompetent and prone to doing shit - that happens more or less everywhere - but because public pressure on them loses their "executive" power

Croatia

05.August 2023 BG

Plenković: "Storm" is a liberation action

The central "Storm" celebration is traditionally organized in Knin, and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said that Croatia will never allow an attack on that action or accept indictments from Belgrade.

Balkans

23.June 2023 I.Đ.

Brnabić and Plenković: Meeting in Subotica with the ribbon cut

After the meeting, Brnabić and Plenković together with the delegations of the two governments opened the Croatian House - Matica in Subotica, after which the Prime Minister of Croatia stated that the opening of the Croatian House in Subotica was an important step forward for the Croatian minority in Serbia

Society

15.June 2023 Sonja Ciric

Civic initiative: Let Split and Novi Sad unite

This week, an action was launched to unite the second largest city in Croatia and the second largest city in Serbia, both with the area code 021. In half a day, at the invitation of the initiator of the civic initiative "Drugi grad", about fifty applications arrived from both cities. Ante Tomić and Aleksandar Samardžija were the first to respond