Croatia

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/2/2023
  

  Croatian Filmmaker Seeks to Polish Image of Late Leader by Casting... Kevin Spacey?

  Franjo Tudjman, whose post-Yugoslavia brand of ethnonationalism has been harshly criticized, remains a favorite of the Croatian right. It's unclear how casting Kevin Spacey to play him will help polish his image, however. 

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• SOURCE: Yale News
  7/8/2020
  

  In Memoriam: Historian and Politician Ivo Banac

  “He was a true friend, a generous colleague, and an internationally recognized scholar who thought and wrote with passion and verve."

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• SOURCE: Jewish News
  7-18-18
  

  Historians accuse Croatia of covering up World War II Crimes

  The charge was leveled after Croatia’s parliament passed legislation last month barring public access to archive materials on individuals aged 100 and over, living and deceased.

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• SOURCE: Balkan Transitional Justice
  9-28-16
  

  Now it’s Croatia that’s hiding its ghastly World War Two past

  A British historian says Croatians are disregarding the facts and claiming that Ustasa did not commit massive crimes against Serbs, Jews and Roma.

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• SOURCE: Balkan Transitional Justice
  4-13-16
  

  Croatian Historian Condemns Minister’s WWII Rhetoric

  Natasa Matausic, a historian who specialises in Croatia’s World War II history, said the country’s new culture minister Zlatko Hasanbegovic should apologise for past statements praising fascist fighters.

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  11-20-13
  

  Some Croatian fans, player Joe Simunic celebrate World Cup berth with pro-Nazi chants

  Simunic and fans chanted a war call used by the Croatian Ustashe, pro-Nazi collaborators.

• SOURCE: The Art Newspaper
  7-30-13
  

  Diocletian’s palace gets laser facelift

  Conservators in Croatia have completed a ten-year project to remove more than 1,700 years of grime from the courtyard of the palace of the Roman Emperor Diocletian (AD244-311), in the coastal city of Split. Lasers were used as the primary method to clean the peristyle of the fourth-century imperial residence—an innovative technique that is normally reserved for cleaning individual sculptures or details of larger architectural elements, as opposed to whole structures. According to the architect Goran Niksic, who works for the city, this is the first time lasers have been used on this scale in Croatia to clean stone.

• SOURCE: Bloomberg News
  6-30-13
  

  Croatia joins EU with history

  Croatia became the 28th member of the European Union, capping a decade of judicial and economic overhaul to shed the remnants of communism and its wartime past.Tens of thousands celebrated the entry of the second former Yugoslav republic into the EU with fireworks, five-story projections of its history and technology, concerts, dance performances and street parties across Zagreb. European Commission President Jose Barroso and other EU officials gathered at the central square as Croatian and blue-and-yellow EU flags fluttered in the evening breeze above revelers’ heads.The Adriatic country, which emerged as an independent state in 1991 during the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia, is looking to EU membership to help solidify peace throughout the Balkan region as tensions still smolder in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo. Leaders are also counting on EU ties to lure foreign investors to the $63 billion economy and end four years of recession and stagnation....