{"id":4438,"date":"2020-03-18T13:37:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T13:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2020-03-18T13:37:27","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T13:37:27","slug":"croatia-signs-accession-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4438","title":{"rendered":"Croatia signs accession treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<header>\n<h1>Croatia signs accession treaty <\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">Date of 1 July 2013 set for Croatia to be 28th member.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">European Voice<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Toby Vogel<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2011-12-14T22:02:00+00:00\">12\/14\/11, 10:02 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2014-04-12T22:25:42+00:00\">4\/12\/14, 10:25 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>Croatia is set to join the European Union on 1 July 2013 after President Ivo Josipovic and Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor signed its treaty of accession on the sidelines of the summit on Friday (9 December).&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Croatia is now on course to be the first country in six years to join the EU, after Bulgaria and Romania in 2007. After Slovenia, which joined in 2004, Croatia will be only the second EU member state out of the seven republics that emerged from the rubble of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. <\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s signing ceremony set in motion a ratification process that will start with a referendum in Croatia, expected to take place early in 2012, and will extend across national procedures in the member states over the following months. Until it becomes a full member, Croatia will be able to attend EU meetings as an observer. <\/p>\n<p>Kosor said that Friday was a \u201chistoric moment\u201d for her country, following six years of negotiations plagued by worries over domestic reform and co-operation with a United Nations war-crimes tribunal, and a border dispute with Slovenia that added almost a year to the talks. <\/p>\n<p><H3>Elections <\/H3><\/p>\n<p>The ceremony came just days after Kosor\u2019s Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), in power for much of Croatia\u2019s 20-year history as an independent state, lost a parliamentary election to the opposition Social Democrats (SDP). <\/p>\n<p>Zoran Milanovic, the leader of the SDP, which won a landslide victory, is expected in the coming days to receive from Josipovic a mandate to form a government. <\/p>\n<p>Jos\u00e9 Manuel Barroso, the president of the European Commission, said that Croatia had demonstrated that it met the \u201cstrict conditions of the enlargement process\u201d and that this should be seen as a \u201cclear signal\u201d to other Balkan countries, including Serbia and Montenegro, that the EU remains open to further expansion. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Toby Vogel<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.nrlshops.com\/rugby-Jerseys' title='cheap nrl jerseys'>cheap nrl jerseys<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatia signs accession treaty Date of 1 July 2013 set for Croatia to be 28th member. 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