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Dacic on Wednesday also called on what he referred to as "brothers and sisters Croats" to all focus "a little bit on the future."

Dacic said this as a response to Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic stating that "Serbia's EU path leads through Croatia," and that there are "many issues have piled up that must be resolved in order for Serbia to join the EU."

In Croatia's undersea waters near the island of Pag, divers from the Croatian Diving Tourism Organisation have discovered the wreck of a Roman ship and its cargo, including about 600 amphoras, the Croatian Chamber of Economy reported on Wednesday.

The act, that was issued in the form of an order, states that all members of the Bunjevci ethnic minority in Serbia - regardless of how they declare themselves - are to be considered Croats.

The Croatian football team's dazzling success in Russia will strengthen Croatia as a brand, Maja Vrataric, a PR expert from Grizli agency, explained to BIRN.

"The World Cup finals on Sunday were broadcasted in every country of the world, which means a lot for our country's visibility," Vrataric said.

After Slovenia on Friday announced that Croatian nationals no longer need visas to work there, Austria remains the only EU country that is still restricting access of Croatian citizens to its labour market.

Austria warned in March that it intended to seek the approval of the European Commission to extend the transitional period until 2020.

After an excellent pre-season, Croatian tourism officials are expecting a profitable summer, but experts are concerned about whether the country is ready for an even greater influx of tourists because of a labour shortage.

According to the latest official data from the Croatian Employment Service, the demand for workers in the tourism sector is growing every year.

Canadian ex-soldiers who took part in peacekeeping missions in the Balkans in the 1990s are returning for a ‘Battlefield Bike Ride’ tour from Bosnia to Croatia, honouring foreign troops who served there.

The president, who met with a delegation from the Alliance of Associations of the Families of Captured and Missing Croatian Defenders, told them that state bodies of Serbia will do everything to achieve visible progress in finding missing persons and shedding light on their fate, Beta agency reported.

Grabar-Kitarovic addressed the media and the public in Croatia over the increasingly tense relations between Serbia and Croatia, created by mutual accusations over an exhibition about Jasenovac at the UN headquarters, opened by Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic.

County court in the Croatian coastal city Split issued one-year prison sentence for two Croats who beat a Serb on Orthodox Christmas in 1998.