Croatia

Following Zagreb’s example, grassroots-based municipalist movements can lead a new progressive wave in the Balkans.

Zagreb’s green-left municipal government is restoring the city’s capacity to deliver quality public services amid surging energy prices.

How the cost of living crisis affects the everyday lives of people around Europe.

The recent local elections in Croatia, and in particular Zagreb, have been marked by the overwhelming success of the Green-Left coalition.

Promising results for Green and like-minded forces in Croatia and Montenegro are cause for cautious optimism despite an uphill battle against corruption and discontent elsewhere in the region.

The Croatian parliamentary election of July 2020 promised to be a very tight race. What forecasts failed to predict is the green-left coalition breakthrough.

Youth movements have shaken up the political landscape across Europe. But countries in eastern and southern Europe saw smaller protests in 2019. We hear why from activists in Croatia.

An analysis of how and why the EU accession process for the Western Balkans seems to be going nowhere, and what this might mean for the region.

A last minute bid by activists in Zagreb to join together and stand in city elections led to a result that could make waves within a political climate of corruption and apathy.

Despite high hopes for Croatia’s multifarious small parties, and disappointment for the centre-left Social Democrats, Croatia’s September elections have revealed a relative return to stability with the two main established parties retaining most of the seats and leverage in the parliament.