#CROATIA

Friday saw Croatia’s parliament approve a coalition government dominated by the conservative, pro-European HDZ party headed by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic.

The first portal disseminating Russian propaganda has been launched in Croatia, publishing translations of articles from Russian state news agencies into Croatian, as reported by the Balkan editorial office of Al Jazeera on Saturday.

The last parliamentary elections in Croatia did not produce a winner who could form a new government on his own. The results clearly indicate that the extreme right will also have to be part of the future majority. This means that the party that stood third in the elections, the Homeland Movement (DP), is likely to play a key role, noted the Serbian weekly NIN.

LOT Polish Airlines is offering about 150,000 seats on flights from Warsaw to Zagreb, Dubrovnik, and Split this year, the company’s CEO Michał Fijoł said on Friday. Croatia tops the list of the most popular holiday destinations for Poles.

Croatia's ruling HDZ is on track to win the parliamentary vote on Wednesday with 65 seats in the 151-seat parliament, preliminary results based on 31.69% of the polling stations counted showed.

The Croatian Democratic Community and its leader, current PM Andrej Plenković, are fighting to stay in power.

The Prime Minister of Croatia and leader of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ), Andrej Plenković, warned that the country’s president and the informal leader of the main opposition bloc, Zoran Milanović, is pushing the country and its people into the embrace of the ‘Russian world.’ This was reported by N1 television on Saturday. The parliamentary elections in Croatia will take place on Wednesday.