Why Croatia's President Is So Happy to Be Joining the EU Now
Interview with President of Croatia Josipovic on Croatia's imminent entry to the EU.
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For Croatia, it is all over bar the fireworks. The former Yugoslav republic will join the European Union on July 1, and without a second thought for the bloc's economic traumas.
I asked President Ivo Josipovic, while he was in London last week, why on earth his country would want to become the EU's 28th member now. Iceland's new government, after all, last week decided to freeze its EU membership talks and the U.K. is thinking seriously about leaving.