Stjepan Mesić

The European Court of Human Rights, ECHR ruled on Tuesday that Stjepan Mesic's right to respect for his private life was not violated by the Croatian courts, which the former president argued had failed to protect his reputation.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told the annual commemoration at Jasenovac on Thursday that the Independent State of Croatia, NDH, a fascist puppet state run by the Ustasa movement and supported by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, was "one of the most tragic periods in Croatian history".

Dacic pointed out that Croatia has been designated as an aggressor by the Hague Tribunal.

"This is an internal political demand and propaganda, because Croatia is not doing well. Croatia has been marked as an aggressor. It has been marked in the Tribunal; Serbia has not been marked by any act," he told TV Pink.

As a Croatian investigative parliamentary committee prepares to hear the first testimonies on how the country's biggest private company, Agrokor, was created, many irregularities from the privatisation processes of the 1990s are expected to be revealed.

Montenegro’s capital rejected an opposition plea to revoke the honorary citizenship of former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic over his controversial statements about the Jasenovac WWII concentration camp.

Croatian far-right media published videos shot in 1992 of former President Stjepan Mesic downplaying the crimes committed at the World War II fascist concentration camp at Jasenovac.

RS President Milorad Dodik is "the new Slobodan Milosevic," former Croatian President Stjepan Mesic has said.

Speaking for the Belgrade-based tabloid Alo, he also described "the messages of politicians" exchanged between Zagreb and Belgrade recently as "very dangerous, even if they are the result of the election campaign (in Croatia)."

BELGRADE - Former Croatian president Stjepan Mesic stated Monday that relations between Croatia and Serbia are not as they should be in the best interest of both countries and the region as a whole.

The relations are still burdened by the past, and Zagreb and Belgrade will have to overcome their disagreements soon, Mesic told Belgrade-based daily Danas.

The President of the Zagreb County Court has called for the Croatian law code to contain jail terms for those denying the defensive character of the independence war - but some call it an attack on free speech.

Croatian companies are hailing a number of important agreements reached at a major trade forum in Moscow.

The Croatia-Russia economic forum and investment conference organized on Tuesday gathered more than 250 Russian and 100 Croatian companies.