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Rise and Fall of Prime Minister Ivo Sanader

By Boris Divjak, Senior Fellow, Adriatic Institute for Public Policy and Member of Board of Directors of Transparency International, Berlin, Germany

Having been formally appointed the Prime Minister of Croatia on 23 December 2003, Dr. Ivo Sanader succeeded late Ivica Racan at the moment when the previous government was losing pace and struggled to maintain internal cohesion, which led the ruling six-party coalition into avoiding most painstaking reformist decisions.

The Economist magazine: Corruption in Kosovo

Time to go straight

The EU and America are no longer prepared to tolerate graft in Kosovo

Mar 18th 2010 | PRISTINA | From The Economist print edition

ON MARCH 10th a small earthquake shook Kosovo. A worse one would have toppled many of the country’s new, shoddily constructed buildings. Worryingly for Kosovo’s leaders, other parts of the national edifice are also coming under test—and they may not fare so well.

In February 2009, a year after Kosovo declared independence from Serbia, the mood among the new country’s foreign supporters was upbeat. The Serb minority was staying put. Serious violence was negligible. The UN mission that had run Kosovo since 1999 was winding down fairly smoothly. But a year on, Kosovo’s leaders are under unprecedented foreign attack for tolerating high-level corruption.

Kosovar newspapers report that foreign officials are concerned about a particular minister suspected of embezzling several million euros from the state. The papers have not named him, but their heavy hints make his identity all too clear. In quick succession Catherine Ashton, the EU’s foreign-policy chief, Stefan Fule, its enlargement commissioner, and Chris Dell, the American ambassador, have all called for action.

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