Politics of Croatia

Former Croatian Serb Leader Goran Hadzic, who is on trial for war crimes in The Hague, alleged that the UN’s Dutch psychologist told him to rely on God to give him strength.

Grabar Kitarovic urged Croatians to unite to solve the country's problems as she was inaugurated on Sunday at a ceremony on St Mark's Square in Zagreb's old town.

"There is nothing we cannot achieve when we are united. I believe in you, my country Croatia," she said in her speech at the inauguration.

BELGRADE - The president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, Miodrag Linta, on Monday urged new Croatian President Kolinda Grabar Kitarevic to demand that Zoran Milanovic's government honour the rights of ethnic Serbs that are guaranteed by the constitution, the law and international agreements signed by Croatia.

Grabar Kitarovic, the victorious candidate of the opposition centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ, went to share her unexpected triumph in the early hours of Monday morning with the protesting disabled veterans from the 1990s conflict at the tent they have set up in front of the war veterans' ministry.

Croatian anti-corruption investigators on Monday detained the Mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandic.

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Croatian President Ivo Joipovic has axed one of his chief advisers for slating the country's 1991 independence referendum as illiberal and undemocratic.

Professor Dejan Jovic expressed his highly controversial thoughts on the referendum on independence from Yugoslavia earlier this week in an academic journal, "Political Thought".

A new poll conducted by IPSOS Puls agency shows that Croatia's governing Social Democratic Party, SDP, is no longer the secondmost popular party after the opposition centre-right Croatian Democratic Union, HDZ.

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Croatia and the Hungarian energy company MOL started an arbitration process before the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris on Monday over the management rights of the Croatian energy company INA.

Former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic told his war crimes trial that Serbs in Croatia were justified in wanting an independent state like the Croats after Yugoslavia broke up.

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.