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  • Honeybees trained in Croatia to find land mines

  • In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 photo, a scientist inspects bees during a scientific experiment at the Faculty of Agriculture at Zagreb University. Croatian researches, working on a unique method to find unexploded mines that are littering their country and the rest of the Balkans, are confident they can use bees for detecting land mines. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Mirjana Filipovic is still haunted by the land mine blast that killed her boyfriend and blew off her left leg while on fishing trip nearly a decade ago. It happened in a field that was supposedly de-mined.



  • Path clear for Croatia's EU entry after Germany ratifies treaty

  • BERLIN (Reuters) - The German lower house of parliament approved Croatia's entry to the European Union on Thursday, clearing the last formal hurdle for the former Yugoslav republic to enter the bloc. Croatia is scheduled to join the EU on July 1. Germany, with the EU's biggest and most powerful economy, was the last member state to ratify the accession treaty as it had waited for the final European Commission report on Croatia's readiness to join. That report, issued in March, was positive. "Croatia's entry shows that the EU's attraction continues unbroken. Europe is not just about crisis. ...
  • Bosnia and Croatia crack down on human smuggling into EU

  • ZAGREB (Reuters) - Police in Bosnia and Croatia have arrested 38 people accused of smuggling illegal migrants into the European Union in a coordinated crackdown on human trafficking in the region. The so-called "Balkan smuggling route" is used to ferry contraband drugs and people from Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Police in Croatia, which joins the European Union on July 1, arrested 25 people and were looking for eight more suspects, while 13 were arrested in Bosnia, said Dean Savic, head of the Croatian police unit for corruption and organized crime. ...
  • Bosnian experts present U.S.-backed plan for reform

  • The restored old stone bridge over Neretva river is seen in MostarBy Daria Sito-Sucic SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnian legal experts presented on Wednesday a U.S.-backed plan to reform one of the Balkan state's two autonomous regions, a month after it was warned that its bid to join the European Union would be frozen without constitutional changes. Bosnia's Serbs, Muslims and Croats differ over how to change a governing structure enshrined in their 1995 peace treaty dividing it into a Serb Republic and a Muslim-Croat Federation with a weak central government in Sarajevo. ...



  • Croatia Airlines goes on strike over pay cuts

  • ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — Croatia Airlines pilots and cabin crews have gone on strike over planned salary cuts and layoffs that are part of efforts to restructure the loss-making state carrier ahead of the country's European Union entry.
  • EU-bound Croatia craves investors but drags feet on reforms

  • Golf park Dubrovnik project director Ivan Kusalic looks on as he talks to Reuters in Croatia's UNESCO protected medieval town of DubrovnikBy Igor Ilic and Sasa Kavic DUBROVNIK, Croatia (Reuters) - The barren Srdj plateau overlooking the mediaeval city of Dubrovnik is a real estate developer's dream, offering breath-taking views of Croatia's top tourist destination. That's precisely why an Israeli-Croatian consortium began planning a billion-euro golf resort there in 2006. Seven years on, construction has yet to start. This project typifies the problems facing foreign investors in Croatia, which joins the European Union on July 1, more than 20 years after it broke away in war from socialist Yugoslavia. Worth about 1. ...



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