Twenty-seven people charged with ordering young relatives to carry out burglaries across France and neighbouring countries The trial of 27 members of three Roma families accused of forcing their children into lives of crime has opened in the French city of Nancy. The defendants were charged with ordering the children, most aged 11, to carry out a series of burglaries across France and neighbouring...
s midnight in a disused fort on the Croatian coast and the outdoor dancefloor is jam-packed. Newcomers are forced to scamper up hillsides in search of space to unlock their moves. The DJ set unfolding around me – over the course of nine hours – is from Three Chairs , the Detroit dance supergroup who are playing a rare London date next week. Women clamber onto men's shoulders,...
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 accession is marked by public anxiety that it will be the latest fall guy of the EU political elite's neoliberal ideology Croatia has become the 28th EU member state . The European leaders want us to believe that, in spite of the Union's current crisis, this clearly testifies to the EU's lasting transformative power, its undisputable international role, and the desirability of its political and economic...
s go, Croatia! The country's image is being recast by travel writers dazzled by the Adriatic and charmed by the mitteleuropa -meets-the-Balkans cultural diversity of its cities. And by young visitors with no recollection of the early 1990s – the domovinski rat , or homelands war of 1991-1995 – who have spread the word about Croatia as a Mediterranean country with an appetite for good food, good wine...
Thousands celebrate in Zagreb as Croatia becomes the 28th country to join the EU ...