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It takes more than law-making to shift cultural contempt towards gay people

13 Dec 2013: Philip Hensher: Gay marriage is sanctioned from next year and legal protections are mostly in place, but it may take another generation for minds to slowly change
Croatia's vote forbidding gay marriage: a sign of the rotten heart of Europe

4 Dec 2013: Srećko Horvat: Anti-minority moves in Croatia are symptomatic of a Europe-wide slide back to the worst nightmares of the 20th century
Croatians vote to ban gay marriage

1 Dec 2013: Constitution will be amended after 65% of voters back statement that marriage is matrimony between a man and a woman
Dragan Vasiljkovic extradition order to Croatia set aside by federal court judge

22 Nov 2013: Partial victory for alleged war criminal who now faces fresh legal hurdles before a decision can be made on extradition bid
Italy and Spain told to redraft spending plans by Brussels to meet debt rules

15 Nov 2013: European commission's autumn fiscal surveillance report also censures Germany, France and Croatia over reforms or deficit
From Bosnia to Syria: the investigators identifying victims of genocide

10 Nov 2013:
Christian Jennings: Thousands of people are missing because of conflicts. But DNA advances now make it possible to identify bodies from mass graves, providing evidence to bring warlords to trial – and comfort to bereaved families. A harrowing special report
NSA spying on Europe gives the US more intelligence, but not better

29 Oct 2013:
Peter Galbraith: European leaders' outrage is synthetic; we're all in this game. But the NSA's data collection power is not necessarily an advantage
Serbia's forgotten veterans fight new battle for hearts, minds and welfare

21 Oct 2013:
While Croatia's Balkan war veterans rights are enshrined in law Serbian fighters battle Belgrade for even basic benefits
As Lampedusa shows, the EU's attitude to migrants will be its own undoing

10 Oct 2013: Srećko Horvat: By protecting its borders so fiercely the EU is destroying what it is desperately trying to save: a centralised and monocultural Europe
Bosnia's first census as independent state revives ethnic rifts

1 Oct 2013: Tension between leaders of former warring sides as each fears being weakened in quota system set by 1995 Dayton accord
Roma families in court accused of forcing their children into life of crime

30 Sep 2013:
Twenty-seven people charged with ordering young relatives to carry out burglaries across France and neighbouring countries
Three Chairs at Dimensions festival: 'We mad as hell'

17 Sep 2013:
Three Chairs are a Detroit supergroup who tag-team their way through epic nine-hour jazz and techno sets. Ben Beaumont-Thomas witnesses their festival set in the Croatian moonlight
Policing Croatia's border - in pictures

Gallery (12 pictures), 2 Jul 2013:
Croatia became the European Union's 28th member on 1 July and its 870-mile border with non-EU neighbours Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro will now become the bloc's new external frontier
Croatia has become the latest member of the EU periphery

1 Jul 2013: Srećko Horvat and Igor Štiks: Croatia's accession is marked by public anxiety that it will be the latest fall guy of the EU political elite's neoliberal ideology
Croatia: meet the new EU neighbours

1 Jul 2013:
The newest European Union member state has plenty of problems – but look on the bright side: it has great food, miles of stunning coastline and a wealth of culture