Last year was a year of economic turmoil and political struggle for Croatia. Although the governing elite initially denied the possibility of the Croatian economy entering recession, the gloomy end of 2008 was followed by the worst blow to the financial and industrial sector since the war years.
Besides bringing a drastic rise in unemployment, an increase in foreign debt, widespread trade union and student strikes, and various cuts in the state budget and consequent tax increases, the ...
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