Ivo Josipovic

PM Zoran Milanovic and President Ivo Josipovic were heckled by war veterans at a ceremony to mark the 19th anniversary of the Croatian Army’s victorious Operation Storm against Serb forces.

“For some, the movie is the most beautiful and the noblest of all deceptions, while for some, film directors are magicians,” said Croatian President Ivo Josipovic in a lyrical address to the festival’s opening ceremony on Saturday.

Merkel stressed that the countries of South-eastern Europe, SEE, have an ally in Germany as they continue on their path to membership of the European Union.

The Chancellor, widely seen as Europe’s most powerful leader, was attending the Brdo-Brijuni summit, which gathers political leaders from all the states of former Yugoslavia plus Albania.

BELGRADE - Presidents of countries from Southeast Europe gathered in Dubrovnik on Tuesday where they will confer with German Chancellor Angela Merkel during the summit within the Brdo-Brijuni process.

President addresses regional gathering

Cavtat -- Serbia will protect its friendships "in east, west, north and south" as the only policy to benefit the people of Serbia and the region, says Tomislav Nikolić.

He was addressing a gathering in Cavtat, Croatia, when he stressed that Serbia encouraged cooperation.

DUBROVNIK - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic is taking part in an annual meeting of the heads of state of South-East Europe (SEE), which welcomes German Chancellor Angela Merkel as a guest, in Dubrovnik on Tuesday.

CAVTAT - Serbia will protect its friendships in the east, west, north and south because it is the only policy that will benefit the people of Serbia and the region, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said at a meeting in Cavtat, Croatia, stressing that Serbia incited cooperation.

BELGRADE - Zagreb will not hinder Serbia along the path toward the EU, Croatian President Ivo Josipovic has said before a meeting of South-East Europe (SEE) leaders in Dubrovnik on July 15.

The court in Zagreb on Friday confirmed that Sanader would go to jail but reduced the sentence from ten years to eight and a half.

Sanader, who was the country's premier from 2003 to 2009, was convicted of taking bribes from Hungarian oil group MOL in exchange for allowing it to take a dominant position in Croatian oil firm INA.

HDZ leader Tomislav Karamarko said on Thursday after a party meeting in the eastern Croatian town of Vukovar that the opposition centre-right party had taken a brave decision in putting up a woman as candidate for the country's presidency.

“She belongs to the HDZ, to the people’s party and to Christian Democratic milieu. And she’s a woman," he said.