Monthly Archives: April 2013

Sir Arthur Evans in Dalmatia 10 May 2013, Oxford

CBR will be at this. Email to attend as below and tell them we sent you! The British-Croatian Association invites you to: Date: Friday 10 May 2013, 14:00 – 17:30 Venue: Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH Entrance is … Continue reading

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Not for Turning: Margaret Thatcher and Croatia/Bosnia

By Brian Gallagher With the recent death of Margaret Thatcher,  a couple of biographies of her have been published. One is ‘Not for Turning’ by Robin Harris. Harris, of course, was one of her top advisers and thus uniquely placed … Continue reading

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Egg on Tim Judah’s and BBC’s faces – pursuing the truth of Franjo Tudjman

Croatia, the War, and the Future Regardless of the fact that BBC (with Tim Judah’s help?) changed the wording in the relevant part of Tim Judah’s article “Croatia: From isolation to EU Membership” there is still egg on Judah’s and … Continue reading

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Sick and Tired of BBC Perversions

Croatia, the War, and the Future It’s a real shame that someone at BBC doesn’t think twice and actually stops someone else (or self) at BBC from publishing lies, half-truths or perversions of truth about Croatia (in the context of … Continue reading

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Analysis: The Croatian Labourists performance in the European elections

By John Pindar While there has been attention given to the very close result between the HDZ and its allies and the SDP plus its allies, it may not have been noted that the Croatian Labourists – Labour Party took … Continue reading

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The Croatian EU Elections 2013 – Are the Croats trying to outdo the British for Euroscepticism?

Analysis by CBR Editor Brian Gallagher Croatia has just elected 11 MEPs to take their place in the European Parliament when Croatia enters the European Union. Effectively, it was the EU’s 2009 elections come late for Croatia. They will only … Continue reading

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Croatian European Elections in London 2013

The Croatian European elections have been underway today, to what appears to be a low turn out. For Croatian citizens aboard, voting was already underway yesterday as well as today. London is no exception as can be seen from our … Continue reading

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Croatian European Elections 2013 – Our coverage.

Croatia is going to the polls tomorrow in order to elect MEPs in order to have them in place when Croatia joins the EU on 1 July. Croatians overseas are already voting. CBR will provide some coverage tomorrow of the … Continue reading

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Concert by the Mozartine girl’s choir – London 21 April

The Croatian chaplaincy have forwarded us details of this event U Godini vjere i ulaska Republike Hrvatske u Europsku Uniju radost nam je u uskrsnom vremenu pozvati Vas na koncert hrvatskog djevojačkog zbora Mozartine iz Zagreba. Istog dana slavit ćemo … Continue reading

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Margaret Thatcher (1925 – 2013) on Croatia

Margaret Thatcher passed away today. One of her greatest achievements came when she was no longer Prime Minister. She came out in support of recognising and arming Croatia in 1991 when Serbia had invaded and she did the same for … Continue reading

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