Croatia: Slovenia OKs accession to NATO

On Friday, Slovenia “formally ratified Croatia’s accession to NATO,” allowing the country to join the alliance as scheduled next week. This is significant because, last week, a border dispute with Slovenia threatened to impede Croatia’s admittance. While the Slovenian government continue to maintain that it supported Croatia joining NATO, a nationalist group, the Party of the Slovenian Nation, strongly opposed. This group attempted to quickly gather the 40,000 signatures needed to “force a referendum on Croatia’s NATO bid,” but, by the Thursday deadline, ultimately fell short.

This is not Croatia’s first disagreement with Slovenia – in December, Slovenia vetoed Croatia’s European Union bid.

I found two articles describing these events: one from an English-language Ukrainian newspaper and one from the New York Times. I find it very interesting that the New York Times article is significantly shorter and less detailed…

-- Ellen Leto