Croatia was a completely different country in 2001 to the one that had declared its independence a decade earlier. The scars of war remain, but the election of Stipe Mesic as President and Ivica Racan as Prime Minister and changes in economic policy have provided an impetus towards membership of the many supranational institutions of Western Europe.
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