Croatia

People may assume that the word ‘cravat’ comes from French, but its ultimate linguistic origin is much more complicated

When Yugoslavia’s dictator split with Stalin in 1948, his potential rivals – politicians, intellectuals, businessmen – found themselves exiled

Ivo Josipović, Croatia’s former president and self-confessed Beatles obsessive, has composed his own opera about the murder of John Lennon

The great European author, who died earlier this month, didn’t leave Croatia – her country left her

With Croatia’s EU accession completed by its adoption of the euro, the European project itself gets a boost

Tight, exciting and nuanced, new six-part Croatian drama thriller Four Strangers is a proper treat

News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.

CHARLIE CONNELLY on an important new book that concentrates on the societies – not the states – that have emerged from communism. In 1996 Britain was, well, a bit full of itself. Nothing new there of course, but this time there was a tangible positivity about a new and vigorous assertion of Britishness. It felt as […]

Six Eurosceptic and Conservative MEPs have failed to vote in support of an appeal to raise funds for Croatia after an earthquake hit the country. The European Parliament proposed a resolution to help the country after the shattering earthquake in Sisak Moslavina on December 29. The 6.4-magnitude earthquake killed several thousand people and caused extensive damage […]