CROATIA HAS TOUGH TASK TO DRIVE CORRUPTION AND FRAUD DOWN TO EU LEVELS

BY MARK ROWE CROATIA is certainly talking a good game when it comes to cracking down on fraud as its European Union (EU) membership negotiations continue apace. The promised land of a seat at Brussels was sufficient to help Social Democrat law professor and classical music composer Ivo Josipovi? (NOTE - SPELLING IS CORRECT) win Croatia's presidential elections at the start of the year on a clear anti-corruption and anti-graft platform. Indeed, Mr Josipovic has pledged to back the centre-right Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor's (NOTE - SPELLING IS CORRECT) drive to ...


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