Croatian parliament suspends fishing zone to salvage EU bid

Croatia on Thursday temporarily suspended its control of a contested fishing zone, hoping to salvage the country's effort to join the EU by 2010, reports the IHT.

Its MPs voted 77-9 to accept prime minister Ivo Sanader's request to postpone applying the country's jurisdiction over fishing in part of the Adriatic that has irked EU members Slovenia and Italy. Other deputies in the 151-seat chamber abstained from the vote.

 

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