Bulgaria and Croatia have been accepted in for two year waiting room before these European Union member states will be allowed to join Euro as currency.

Zagreb - Protests by students in the Croatian capital Zagreb demanding free education spread Thursday to the entire country, local media reported.

Around 1,000 students in Zagreb began demonstrating on Monday demanding free education. On Thursday, hundreds of students in Osijek, Zadar, Rijeka and Split joined the strike.

Zagreb/Ljubljana - Croatia on Thursday welcomed the latest European Union proposal for resolving its ongoing border dispute with Slovenia, while Slovenia said it was still studying the proposal. EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn has proposed that borders on the sea and land be determined by an international court made up of five judges chosen by Zagreb and Ljubljana, Croatian media reported Thursday.

Zagreb- Croatia has rejected the European Union's offer of mediation between Zagreb and Slovenia in a border dispute that is delaying Croatia's EU accession talks, local media reported on Saturday.

Croatian President Stjepan Mesic was quoted by the daily Jutarnji List paper as saying that the offer "made no sense." The refusal of the EU offer would also be approved by Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, the paper said.

Zagreb  - Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday send a note to the British embassy in Zagreb demanding an explanation of the Foreign Office's warning to British citizens to wary of a threat from organized crime in Croatia.

"Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked the British embassy in Zagreb to explain such warnings and publish an objective image of Croatia," Croatian foreign affairs ministry spokesman Mario Dragun told the German Press Agency dpa.

Zagreb - In the midsts of the global economic meltdown, tourism-dependent Croatia is anxiously awaiting the first results of the Easter holiday break. With holiday-makers to the former Yugoslav republic providing nearly a quarter of the country's GDP, tourism figures aren't just of interest to the hotel and catering trade - they could well affect the prospects for the government in Zagreb.

Even though first signs show high visitor numbers and packed hotels, any relief is tempered by the knowledge that the year ahead will still be tricky.