CROATIA To Become 28th Member of the EU on 01/07/13

[Babz]

Croatia will become the 28th member of the European Union at midnight on Sunday.
EU flags fluttered from a stage in Zagreb's central square ahead of the evening's festivities, though there have been few signs of the gushing welcome that marked past expansions to ex-communist Eastern Europe.
Croatia joins the bloc just over two decades after declaring independence from federal Yugoslavia, the trigger for four years of war in which some 20,000 people died.
But, facing a fifth year of recession and record unemployment of 21 percent, few Croatians are in the mood to party.
They join a bloc deeply troubled by its own economic woes, which have created internal divisions and undermined public support for the union.

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