Having looked to Belgrade for decades to bail out inefficient state-run companies, Zagreb's former Titoists have based their economic strategy on milking international aid out of Brussels and Washington. Yet contrary to their expectations, significant Western financial assistance has not materialized.
The country is now an economic basket case. The unemployment rate is over 23 percent — a significant increase since the anemic Tudjman years. Zagreb is also saddled with a nearly $10 billion foreign debt. Its annual per capita income is slightly more than $4,000 — half that of neighboring Slovenia and only 60 percent of what it was before Croatia became independent, in 1991. The government's dismal economic record — combined with its inability to defend the country's leading generals, such as Janko Bobetko and Ante Gotovina, from deeply flawed and weak indictments by the Balkans war-crimes tribunal — has led to a substantial loss of support among the electorate.
There you go;current government does not fight "corruption,cronyism ...passed down from Communist era"!!!!What happened with 1989-98 period when Tudjman was in control???Isn`t it true that Rachan and Mesich had inhereted his government apparatus???No,those years had desapeared,Croatia proved that Einstein was right, and achieved a time travel.Jumped from 1989 to 2003 in a Communist Time Machine!
And,what is this about Croats going to Belgrade to bail them out when they were in throuble?Why would those nasty Serbs that "dominated Yugoslavia" bail out their Nemesis,Croats???
And,new government shows no respect for "Croatian patriots...Gotovina and Bobetko"!?
This guy is so pro Tudjman and his Neo Fascist party that,I suspect,he received a "large donation" from Croatian Diaspora(Tudjman cronys and fascists) for his research.
Can`t wait to buy his book.