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Slovenia 🇸🇮 wants to build the Mokrice hydropower plant on the Sava, just 450 m from the border. Croatia 🇭🇷 says no, warning it could threaten Zagreb's drinking water.
#Slovenia 🇸🇮 #Croatia 🇭🇷 #Sava#Yugoslavia
Another loss for Yugoslav rock: Mišo Hrnjak, bassist of the legendary Azra, has died at 66.
He played on Azra's first three cult albums with Johnny Štulić, the same day Croatia 🇭🇷 mourned Mišo Kovač.
#Croatia 🇭🇷 #Azra#Yugoslavia#NewWave
Serbia 🇷🇸 marks two years since the Novi Sad canopy collapse that killed 16 people.
Patriarch Porfirije holds a memorial service at Belgrade's Temple of Saint Sava today, as students lead a commemorative walk in Novi Sad.
#Serbia 🇷🇸 #NoviSad#Yugoslavia
Croatia 🇭🇷 has lost a legend: Mišo Kovač has died at 85.
The Šibenik-born singer sold over 20 million records, the best-selling artist in Croatia 🇭🇷 and all of former Yugoslavia. Farewell in Split, burial in Zagreb.
#Croatia 🇭🇷 #MišoKovač#Yugoslavia
"Montenegro 🇲🇪 is heading to the EU 🇪🇺 and it's welcome," says Croatia's 🇭🇷 President Zoran Milanović, hosting Montenegrin President Jakov Milatović in Zagreb. His warning: the EU must not become a "superstate."
#Croatia 🇭🇷 #Montenegro 🇲🇪 #EU 🇪🇺 #Yugoslavia
High school staff across Una-Sana Canton in Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦 will go on general strike on November 9 after mediation with the cantonal government failed.
#Bosnia 🇧🇦 #BiH 🇧🇦 #Strike#Yugoslavia
Serbia's 🇷🇸 organized crime prosecutors already had a case open against ALTA Bank's owner, says prosecutor Bojana Savović.
Her warning to officials: even trying to destroy documents is a crime.
#Serbia 🇷🇸 #AltaBanka#Yugoslavia
Collapsed Serbian 🇷🇸 ALTA Bank had lent €22 million to the Republika Srpska government in Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦.
It was also planning to buy both Addiko banks in Sarajevo and Banja Luka.
#Bosnia 🇧🇦 #Serbia 🇷🇸 #Banking#Yugoslavia
Four vice-governors of Serbia's 🇷🇸 central bank are asking prosecutors to investigate their own institution over ALTA Bank.
They say they only learned the bank's real state at an emergency session on Friday night.
#Serbia 🇷🇸 #AltaBanka#NBS#Yugoslavia
Lifeline extended: the US 🇺🇸 renews licences so Russian-owned NIS can keep Serbia's 🇷🇸 Pancevo refinery running until Dec 11, supplied via Croatia's 🇭🇷 JANAF pipeline.
Hungary's 🇭🇺 MOL can keep negotiating to buy NIS.
#Serbia 🇷🇸 #Croatia 🇭🇷 #Yugoslavia
Pope Leo XIV names a new envoy for Medjugorje, Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇧🇦⛪
Retired Italian 🇮🇹 bishop Francesco Cavina replaces Archbishop Aldo Cavalli as apostolic visitor to the famous pilgrimage site.
#Bosnia 🇧🇦 #Medjugorje#Vatican 🇻🇦 #Yugoslavia