Croatia

We forecast Croatia's unemployment rate to average 20.0% this year, up from an average 18.0% in 2011. Recent data from the Croatian Statistics Bureau shows that the unemployment rate... 2012-04-25

The European Commission's first report on Croatia's progress towards EU accession under the monitoring process highlighted the same shortcomings, which have dogged Croatia's entire... 2012-04-25

The trials of former Prime Minister Ivo Sanader and top Christian Democratic Union (HDZ) officials are set to go ahead as planned. The HDZ party members are being held on charges of... 2012-03-21

We forecast Croatia's unemployment rate to average 20.0% this year following an annual average rate of 18.0% in 2011. We believe that planned fiscal austerity measures by the Kukuriku... 2012-03-21

The Croatian ambassador to Latvia, Vladimir Matek, recently held a meeting with Latvia's Foreign Ministry state secretary in Riga on February 26, in which Matek thanked Latvia for the... 2012-02-28

We have revised upwards our forecast for the average unemployment rate in Croatia this year to 19.1% from 18.6% previously. This comes on the back of data that showed the joblessness... 2012-02-28

We believe exchange rate stability will prevail in 2012 but expect a steady depreciation of the kuna against the major currencies on the back of a weak economic growth outlook and... 2012-01-26

Croatia and Slovenia have agreed upon the makeup of an EU-sponsored tribunal appointed to arbitrate a border disagreement that stalled Croatia's EU accession bid in 2009. The disagreement... 2012-01-26

Parliamentary elections in December which saw our long-held view for the centre-left coalition (known as the Kukuriku coalition) come to power has played out. We have raised Croatia's... 2011-12-23

We have revised upward our forecast for official unemployment in Croatia to end 2012 at 18.8% and over the course of the year average 18.6% from our previous forecast for end-2012 of... 2011-12-23