ZAGREB, April 18, 2018 - The Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs issued a statement on Tuesday in connection with the European Commission's Enlargement Report for 2018, saying that Croatia strongly supported the further process of EU enlargement to all Southeast European countries.

ZAGREB, April 17, 2018 - In a rather dramatic warning to the European Parliament on Tuesday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said that the European Union had to offer Southeast European countries a prospect of EU membership so as to avert a repetition of conflicts like those that occurred in the 1990s.

ZAGREB, April 16, 2018 - The EU-Western Balkans summit, which will be held next month, will not give as strong a message as the one held in Thessaloniki in 2003, but it will clearly emphasise European Union membership prospects for Southeast European countries, Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Marija Pejčinović Burić said in Luxembourg on Monday.

ZAGREB, April 15, 2018 - The European Union is no closer to its goal of halving the number of road fatalities by 2020, as their number in 2017 was only slightly lower than the previous year.

ZAGREB, April 15, 2018 (Hina) - Croatia's development policy and its complementarity with the goals and activities of the European Union's development and humanitarian policy were the topics of a meeting between Foreign Minister Marija Pejčinović Burić and European International Cooperation and Development Commissioner Neven Mimica in Zagreb.

ZAGREB, April 14, 2018 - President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on Friday received European Commission Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness Jyrki Katainen and discussed structural reforms, the Juncker plan and European defence policy, the President's Office said in a press release.

ZAGREB, April 13, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković on Friday refuted media speculation that he had the ambition to take a senior position in the European Union. He was in parliament presenting the conclusions of the European Council reached on March 22 and 23.

In 2017, Croatian researchers and innovators have registered just ten patents.

ZAGREB, April 11, 2018 - Croatia will send by April 17 its response to Slovenia's letter to the European Commission in which it proposed that a suit be filed against Croatia for non-compliance with the arbitration ruling on the border dispute, after which it will orally present its stance to the European Commission on May 2, the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MVEP) told Hina on Wednesday.

ZAGREB, April 10, 2018 - The Slovenian government will send a written request to the European Commission asking it to accept the role of a mediator in the dispute between Slovenia and Croatia over transferred savings accounts held by Croatian citizens in the now defunct, Yugoslav-era, Ljubljanska Banka Zagreb, Slovenian media reported on Tuesday referring to a statement by Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec.