Croatia and the European Union: A Troubled Relationship

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Acknowledgements

The profile was completed in mid-July 2005. The authors would like to thank Thomas Diez and Zlatko Šabič for their careful reading of the manuscript.

Notes

¹ Furthermore, ‘Croatia needs to remain committed to regional cooperation within the framework of the Stabilization and Association Process for the Western Balkans’ (Commission of the European Communities, 2004b: 6).

² The data on Croatia's 1991 national census are from pp. 5–11 of the Report submitted by Croatia pursuant to Article 25, Paragraph 1 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, received on 16 March 1999, ACFC/SR(1999)005, www.coe.int/T/e/human_rights/Minorities/2._FRAMEWORK_CONVENTION_(MONITORING)/2._Monitoring_mechanism/3._State_reports/PDF_ACFC_SR(1999)005%20E%20%20state%20report%20Croatia-1.pdf. For the data on Croatia's population and its ethnic composition see pp. 6–10 of the Second report submitted by Croatia pursuant to Article 25, Paragraph 1 of the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, received on 13 April 2004, ACFC/SR/II(2004)002, http://www.coe.int/T/e/human_rights/Minorities/2._FRAMEWORK_CONVENTION_(MONITORING)/2._Monitoring_mechanism/3._State_reports/2._Second_cycle/PDF_2nd_SR_Croatia.pdf.