Ivo Sanader is a Croatian former politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from 2003 to 2009. He is currently serving a 18-year prison sentence for corruption in Lipovica prison.
Zoran Milanović is a Croatian politician serving as the president of Croatia since 2020. Prior to assuming the presidency,he was prime minister of Croatia from 2011 to 2016,as well as president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) from 2007 to 2016.
Full diplomatic relations between Croatia and Israel were established on April 9,1997 following Croatia's independence from SFR Yugoslavia. Croatia has an embassy in Tel Aviv and honorary consulates in Ashdod,Caesarea,Jerusalem and Kfar Shmaryahu. Israel has an embassy in Zagreb. Relations between the two countries are described as friendly and highly cooperative. In recent years,Croatia and Israel have intensified bilateral relations and defence and security cooperation. Croatia is one of the countries Israel occasionally turns to inside the EU to advocate on its behalf and it generally abstains or votes with Israel on key EU votes at the UN. Israeli president Reuven Rivlin described Croatia in 2019 as "Israel's strong ally in the EU,the UN and other multilateral organizations."
Tomislav Karamarko is a Croatian politician who served as First Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia from January to June 2016. He served in the Cabinet of Jadranka Kosor as Minister of the Interior from 2008 to 2011.
Martina Dalić is a Croatian economist and finance official who was a Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia and Minister of Economy,Small and Medium Entrepreneurship and Crafts in the Cabinet of Andrej Plenković.
Josip "Joža" Horvat was a Croatian writer. He was the author of many novels,short stories,dramas,screenplays,essays and radio dramas,translated into at least nine languages,including Russian,Chinese and Esperanto.
Andrej Plenković is a Croatian politician serving as the prime minister of Croatia since October 2016. He was previously one of eleven Croatian members of the European Parliament,serving from Croatia's accession to the European Union in 2013 until his resignation as MEP when he took office as prime minister. Plenkovićhas also been serving as the president of the Croatian Democratic Union since 2016.
Vlado Košić is a Croatian bishop and leader of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sisak.
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 5 July 2020. They were the tenth parliamentary elections since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and elected the 151 members of the Croatian Parliament. 140 Members of Parliament were elected from geographical electoral districts in Croatia,three MPs were chosen by the Croatian diaspora and eight MPs came from the ranks of citizens registered as belonging to any of the 22 constitutionally recognized national minorities.
Zlatko Hasanbegović is a Croatian politician and historian who has served as a member of the Croatian Parliament since 2016. He served as Minister of Culture in the cabinet of Tihomir Oreškovićfrom 22 January to 19 October 2016. Hasanbegovićis also a member of the Zagreb Assembly and one of the founders of the Independents for Croatia party.
Damir Krstičević is a Croatian general and politician who served as the Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister from 2016 until his resignation in May 2020,which he tendered due to the deaths of two Croatian military pilots in an aircraft accident.
Gordan Grlić-Radman is a Croatian diplomat and politician serving as Minister of Foreign and European Affairs since July 2019.
Ivan Malenica is a Croatian lawyer and politician serving as Minister of Justice and Public Administration since 2020.
Parliamentary elections were held in Croatia on 17 April 2024 to elect the members of the 11th Sabor. Prior to the elections,the government consisted of a coalition of the Croatian Democratic Union and Independent Democratic Serb Party,with parliamentary support of five national minority MPs,two MPs from the Croatian Social Liberal Party and Croatian Demochristian Party,and one independent MP,Silvano Hrelja.
The Fifteenth Government of the Republic of Croatia was the Croatian Government cabinet formed on 23 July 2020,following the 2020 election. It was led by Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. The cabinet was dissolved on 17 May 2024 and was succeeded by a new government presided over by Plenkovićfor the third consecutive time.
Nikolina Brnjac is a Croatian politician of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for Croatia since 2024. She served as Minister of Tourism and Sports from 2020 to 2024 in the PlenkovićII Cabinet.
The 2020 Zagreb shooting,commonly referred to as the St. Mark's Square attack,occurred on 12 October 2020 in Zagreb,Croatia,when 22-year-old Danijel Bezuk approached Banski dvori,which houses the office of the Prime Minister and serves as the meeting place of the government,on St. Mark's Square and started shooting at it with an assault rifle,wounding a police officer in the process. In the aftermath,the perpetrator ran off to a nearby neighborhood and committed suicide.
On 10 March 2022 at 23:01 CET,an unidentified Soviet-made Tupolev Tu-141 reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) crashed in Zagreb,the capital of Croatia. With an unidentified operator and unknown destination,the origin of the drone is presumed to be connected to military actions during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The drone's flight over Croatia,Hungary and Romania prompted criticism of the countries' defense systems as the UAV was detected but not cleared. In response,the Croatian government restricted airspace over populous cities and received military support from France and the United States who dispatched multiple fighter-jets to Croatia days later for joint exercises.
Ukraine and Russia have had hostile relations since 2014 Russian occupation of Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea. In February 2022,a major escalation happened after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. This article concerns influence of Russo-Ukrainian conflict on Croatians and Republic of Croatia.
Zagreb protest was a political protest organized in Zagreb,Croatia,on 17 February 2024 by a coalition of 11 left-wing,liberal opposition parties against the government of Andrej Plenkovićand the Croatian Democratic Union. The protest was held under the name "Enough! Let's go to the elections!".
