Tomislav Pletenac

More than 25 years since it was dissolved, the subject of the Yugoslav People's Army, JNA, still fascinates many of the people who served it, judging by the number of JNA-themed Facebook pages, websites, forums and blogs.

A proposed new law on science and higher education in Croatia that will allow persons who plagiarised scientific papers to keep their academic status has angered prominent members of Croatia's academic community.

Plagiarism in Croatia's academic community is not being dealt with and punished because fellow academics "turn a blind eye" to their colleague's misdeeds and damage the image of the community as a whole, Tomislav Pletenac, a professor of ethnology and cultural anthropology at Zagreb's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences told BIRN.

Members of Zagreb University's Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies, FFZG, still strongly oppose the faculty's plan to merge studies with the Catholic Theology Faculty, KBF.

Zrinka Breglec, a student at FFZG and a member of Plenum, the body gathering students and faculty staff, told BIRN that the faculty management "isn't giving up the deal".

Students and some of the staff at Faculty of Humanities and Social Studies, FFZG, in Zagreb are opposing the faculty's idea of introducing merged studies with Zagreb's Catholic Faculty of Theology, KBF, alleging that it discriminates against students on the basis of religion.