Croatia is the latest and 28th European Union member state. Zagreb submitted a full membership request in latest February 2003 and now the former Jugoslav federal republic joined the other twentiseven members under the starry EU flag, more than a decade later. Croatian entry into the European peace area was combined with one hope: forgetting mid-nineties’ civil war horrors and letting people moving on once for all. 

The European Union has undeniably made a lot of progress since that day, the Treaty of Rome in 1957.

Almost every aspect of national policy is now determined from Brussels with the European Council and the European Parliament.

The EU now even has its own Foreign Service and is discussing to create your own intelligence and federal police.

After ten years of arduous negotiations, Croatia from July 1, 2013 will become the twenty-eighth member of the EU and will enter the Schengen area by 2015.