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Hit TV Show seeks for Americans looking to buy in Dubrovnik!

TV producer US — Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:34 pm

Author: TV producer US

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 8:34 pm

Hi ! My name is Robert Fielder and I'm one of the producers of "A Place in the Sun - U.S.". This is a tremendously popular UK show, now being made in the United States about Americans purchasing property abroad. "A Place in the Sun - U.S." will be filming in and around the Dubrovnik area at the end of September and early October. We are currently searching for Americans looking to buy property in Dubrovnik and or real estate agents with American clients looking to buy there to be featured on our show. Air travel and accommodations will be provided. If you'd like to be featured on our program please get in touch with me at your earliest convience.
Thank you for your assistance.

Robert Fielder
Segment Producer
"A Place in the Sun" - US
Handbook Productions
310-727-2640
rfielder@handbookproductions

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Hw Women Can Look Good Inside and Out of the Gym ?

jasmine007 — Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:07 pm

Author: jasmine007

Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 6:07 pm

Hello friends

The following tips are are for those gorgeous girls and mature women who spend their quality time in Gym to look the same outside of the Gym as well ?
Have Fun ....

1. Throw out your bodysuits and leg warmers

Avoid oversized shirts and shorts. While these items might feel comfortable they tend to make you look unkept and can be hazardous if they get caught in an exercise machine. If you want to look your absolute best, choose outfits that fit your body well and are in colors that flatter you.

2. Choose clothing that is made for exercise
The t-shirt and jeans that you wear are not be suitable for the gym. Workout clothes are designed to keep sweat and moisture away from the body. Cotton t-shirts, while breathable, can keep moisture close to the skin. Jeans similarly trap moisture next to the body and are also too restricting. Instead, shop for fitness wear that is made to be quick drying and moisture wicking. Look for items with polyester, spandex, and mesh ventilation panels.

3. Wear a good sports bra

An important part of looking good in the gym is wearing a good sports bra. Working out can include alot of jumping and running, activities that can cause breast jiggle and discomfort. If you are heavy breasted, look for sports bras with wide straps that provide good support. Make sure they are made of breathable fabrics to avoid chafing.

4. Wear footwear appropriate for your workout
Look for shoes that are appropriate for your exercise routine. Exercise footwear is designed to be activity specific. If you are a runner, look for a good running shoe. If you are an aerobics fanatic, pick a sneaker that is made for aerobic workouts. Picking the right shoe for your activity will guarantee you get the support you need and help you avoid injury.

5. Avoid wearing jewelry

As a general rule, your jewelry should not be a part of your workout ensemble. While you might want to keep your wedding band on, wearing too many rings can make it difficult to grab weights or handles on exercise machines.

Follow these simple tips and you will not only look good inside and out of the gym, but you will enjoy a successful workout too.

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1.turkowın — Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:34 pm

Author: 1.turkowın

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 10:34 pm

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jelena — Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:40 pm

Author: jelena

Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:40 pm

Yeah... Just fill in a short query „your feedback“ and send it via SMS directly from mobiexplore. I participated in the contest too and it lasts until 25th September.

Cost of living anyone?

consumerofculture — Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:49 am

Author: consumerofculture

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 1:49 am

Dazza230 wrote:

HIYA MATE, JUST CAME ACROSS THIS SITE AND MAYBE I CAN GIVE YOU A FEW POINTERS. IVE JUST CAME BACK FROM CROATIA (DUBROVNIK). IVE BEEN LOOKING INTO THE IDEA OF MOVING THERE TOO, ONLY THING IS I HAVE NO MONEY TO SET ANYTHING UP THERE!! THE LURE OF GOOD WEATHER AND DIFFERENT WAY OF LIFE ATTRACTS ME!!! CROATIA BASICALLY REALIES ON TOURISM, THERE ARE VERY FEW JOBS AND UNEMPLOYMENT IS VERY HIGH, SO YOU WOULD HAVE TO SET UP A TOURISM BUSINESS VENTURE. IN DUBROVNIK THERE ARE A LOT OF ROOMS TO RENT BY LOCAL PEOPLE WHO WANT TO MAKE AN EXTRA FEW EURO. LAND IS VERY EXPENSIVE IN DUBROVNIK AND ALSO, MOST PROBABLY SPLIT. WHEN I WAS THERE I MET A MAN WHO HAD SPENT 4 MILLION EURO ON HIS VILLA AND IT ONLY HAS 9 APARTMENTS. OK, THIS IS THE EXTREME BUT YOU GET THE POINT. PLACES LIKE CAVTAT AND POREC ARE CHEAPER THAN DUBROVNIK AND MANY PEOPLE ARE BUILDING APARTMENTS THERE.. UP THE OTHER END AT PULA, TOURISM IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE POPULAR AS MORE AIRLINES ARE STARTING TO FLY THERE. IM NOT SURE IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO BUY LAND THEN BUILD OR TO BUY AN APARTMENT BLOCK ALREADY DONE BUT, THERE ARE A LOT OF FOREIGN INVESTERS THERE AND YOU MIGHT HAVE A STRUGGLE TO FIND SOMETHING SUITABLE.

EMAIL ME IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. I HAVE A FEW CONTACTS THERE SO I MIGHT BE ABLE TO HELP..

HOPE THIS HELPS
DARREN

Dazza230 - Looking into heading over to Croatia myself - will secure a long-term rental initially till I get the "lay of the land"

Anyway, couldn't help noticing you had contacts there in Croatia? What areas might they be able to assist a Yank wanting to come over?

I anticipate starting up some type enterprise catering to the burgeoning tourism the coastal resort towns are enjoying. Please email me any info I might find useful and certainly the contact info for the gents you left behind in Croatia. I'll buy 'em a pint or two in your name!

Thanks in advance, Dazza230.

Regards, Bruce

Anyone there?

rainman — Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:49 am

Author: rainman

Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:49 am

Hi Alvin,

Thank you for replying .... I have never been to Croatia and am only in the very early stages of gathering information about the place. So at this moment in time I have not much of a clue where I would like to end up should I make the move.
My biggest stumbling block could be the language barrier, Cyprus is/was obviously not too much of a problem because majority speak English, not to mention, being surrounded
by ex pats!
But I guess my starting point has got to revolve around finances. Ideally I would like to be able to retain my humble property in Cyprus as a safety net should things not work out wherever I go.
My point from my original post about getting views from people who have already made the move is that I did so much research on Cyprus before coming here and made sure [as best possible in the limited time I had] that I had covered every angle. But having got here I have realised that so many of the things I worried about were so unecessary yet other important things I had completely overlooked!
Poor internet access over the last week or so has been frustrating so am only just getting back to research! But if you, or anybody else could share their experiences of Crotia and where best to reside on a limited income I would be so grateful.

Geoff

CROATIA COUNTRY PROFILE / CROATIA COUNTRY GUIDE

Croatia Info — Thu May 17, 2007 3:19 am

Author: Croatia Info

Posted: Thu May 17, 2007 3:19 am

CROATIA COUNTRY PROFILE

Introduction

The lands that today comprise Croatia were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire until the close of World War I. In 1918, the Croats, Serbs and Slovenes formed a kingdom known after 1929 as Yugoslavia. Following World War II, Yugoslavia became a federal independent Communist state under the strong hand of Marshal TITO. Although Croatia declared its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991, it took four years of sporadic, but often bitter, fighting before occupying Serb armies were mostly cleared from Croatian lands. Under UN supervision, the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.

Geography

Location:
Southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia

Geographic coordinates:
45 10 N, 15 30 E

Map references:
Europe

Area:
total: 56,542 sq km
land: 56,414 sq km
water: 128 sq km

Area - comparative:
slightly smaller than West Virginia

Land boundaries:
total: 2,197 km
border countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina 932 km, Hungary 329 km, Serbia and Montenegro (north) 241 km, Serbia and Montenegro (south) 25 km, Slovenia 670 km

Coastline:
5,835 km (mainland 1,777 km, islands 4,058 km)

Maritime claims:
territorial sea: 12 nm
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation

Climate:
Mediterranean and continental; continental climate predominant with hot summers and cold winters; mild winters, dry summers along coast

Terrain:
geographically diverse; flat plains along Hungarian border, low mountains and highlands near Adriatic coastline and islands

Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Adriatic Sea 0 m
highest point: Dinara 1,830 m

Natural resources:
oil, some coal, bauxite, low-grade iron ore, calcium, gypsum, natural asphalt, silica, mica, clays, salt, hydropower

Land use:
arable land: 26.09%
permanent crops: 2.27%
other: 71.65% (2001)

Irrigated land:
30 sq km (1998 est.)

Natural hazards:
destructive earthquakes

Environment - current issues:
air pollution (from metallurgical plants) and resulting acid rain is damaging the forests; coastal pollution from industrial and domestic waste; landmine removal and reconstruction of infrastructure consequent to 1992-95 civil strife

Environment - international agreements:
party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Sulfur 94, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands
signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Persistent Organic Pollutants, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol

Geography - note:
controls most land routes from Western Europe to Aegean Sea and Turkish Straits

People

Population:
4,495,904 (July 2005 est.)

Age structure:
0-14 years: 16.4% (male 378,615/female 359,231)
15-64 years: 67% (male 1,497,355/female 1,514,993)
65 years and over: 16.6% (male 283,460/female 462,250) (2005 est.)

Median age:
total: 39.97 years
male: 38.01 years
female: 41.76 years (2005 est.)

Population growth rate:
-0.02% (2005 est.)

Birth rate:
9.57 births/1,000 population (2005 est.)

Death rate:
11.38 deaths/1,000 population (2005 est.)

Net migration rate:
1.58 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2005 est.)

Sex ratio:
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
under 15 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.61 male(s)/female
total population: 0.92 male(s)/female (2005 est.)

Infant mortality rate:
total: 6.84 deaths/1,000 live births
male: 6.79 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 6.88 deaths/1,000 live births (2005 est.)

Life expectancy at birth:
total population: 74.45 years
male: 70.79 years
female: 78.31 years (2005 est.)

Total fertility rate:
1.39 children born/woman (2005 est.)

HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate:
less than 0.1% (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS:
200 (2001 est.)

HIV/AIDS - deaths:
less than 10 (2001 est.)

Nationality:
noun: Croat(s), Croatian(s)
adjective: Croatian

Ethnic groups:
Croat 89.6%, Serb 4.5%, other 5.9% (including Bosniak, Hungarian, Slovene, Czech, and Roma) (2001 census)

Religions:
Roman Catholic 87.8%, Orthodox 4.4%, other Christian 0.4%, Muslim 1.3%, other and unspecified 0.9%, none 5.2% (2001 census)

Languages:
Croatian 96.1%, Serbian 1%, other and undesignated 2.9% (including Italian, Hungarian, Czech, Slovak, and German) (2001 census)

Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 98.5%
male: 99.4%
female: 97.8% (2003 est.)

Government

Country name:
conventional long form: Republic of Croatia
conventional short form: Croatia
local long form: Republika Hrvatska
local short form: Hrvatska
former: People's Republic of Croatia, Socialist Republic of Croatia

Government type:
presidential/parliamentary democracy

Capital:
name: Zagreb
geographic coordinates: 45 48 N, 15 58 E
time difference: UTC+1 (6 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
daylight saving time: +1hr, begins last Sunday in March; ends last Sunday in October

Administrative divisions:
20 counties (zupanije, zupanija - singular) and 1 city* (grad - singular); Bjelovarsko-Bilogorska Zupanija, Brodsko-Posavska Zupanija, Dubrovacko-Neretvanska Zupanija, Istarska Zupanija, Karlovacka Zupanija, Koprivnicko-Krizevacka Zupanija, Krapinsko-Zagorska Zupanija, Licko-Senjska Zupanija, Medimurska Zupanija, Osjecko-Baranjska Zupanija, Pozesko-Slavonska Zupanija, Primorsko-Goranska Zupanija, Sibensko-Kninska Zupanija, Sisacko-Moslavacka Zupanija, Splitsko-Dalmatinska Zupanija, Varazdinska Zupanija, Viroviticko-Podravska Zupanija, Vukovarsko-Srijemska Zupanija, Zadarska Zupanija, Zagreb*, Zagrebacka Zupanija

Independence:
25 June 1991 (from Yugoslavia)

National holiday:
Independence Day, 8 October (1991); note - 25 June 1991 is the day the Croatian Parliament voted for independence; following a 3-month moratorium to allow the European Community to solve the Yugoslav crisis peacefully, Parliament adopted a decision on 8 October 1991 to sever constitutional relations with Yugoslavia

Constitution:
adopted on 22 December 1990; revised 2000, 2001

Legal system:
based on civil law system

Suffrage:
18 years of age; universal (16 years of age, if employed)

Executive branch:
chief of state: President Stjepan (Stipe) MESIC (since 18 February 2000)
head of government: Prime Minister Ivo SANADER (since 9 December 2003); Deputy Prime Ministers Jadranka KOSOR (since 23 December 2003) and Damir POLANEC (since NA February 2005)
cabinet: Council of Ministers named by the prime minister and approved by the parliamentary Assembly
elections: president elected by popular vote for a five-year term; election last held 16 January 2005 (next to be held January 2010); the leader of the majority party or the leader of the majority coalition is usually appointed prime minister by the president and then approved by the Assembly
election results: Stjepan MESIC reelected president; percent of vote - Stjepan MESIC (HNS) 66%, Jadranka KOSOR (HDZ) 34%

Legislative branch:
unicameral Assembly or Sabor (152 seats; note - one seat was added in the November 2003 parliamentary elections; members elected from party lists by popular vote to serve four-year terms)
elections: Assembly - last held 23 November 2003 (next to be held in 2007)
election results: Assembly - percent of vote by party - NA%; number of seats by party - HDZ 66, SDP 34, HSS 10, HNS 10, HSP 8, IDS 4, Libra 3, HSU 3, SDSS 3, other 11
note: minority government coalition - HDZ, DC, HSLS, HSU, SDSS

Judicial branch:
Supreme Court; Constitutional Court; judges for both courts appointed for eight-year terms by the Judicial Council of the Republic, which is elected by the Assembly

Political parties and leaders:
Croatian Bloc or HB [Ivic PASALIC]; Croatian Christian Democratic Union or HKDU [Anto KOVACEVIC]; Croatian Democratic Union or HDZ [Ivo SANADER]; Croatian Party of Rights or HSP [Anto DJAPIC]; Croatian Peasant Party or HSS [Zlatko TOMCIC]; Croatian Pensioner Party or HSU [Vladimir JORDAN]; Croatian People's Party or HNS [Vesna PUSIC] (in 2005 party merged with Libra to become Croatian People's Party-Liberal Democrats or NS-LD [Vesna PUSIC]); Croatian Social Liberal Party or HSLS [Ivan CEHOK]; Croatian True Revival Party or HIP [Miroslav TUDJMAN]; Democratic Centre or DC [Vesna SKARE-OZBOLT]; Independent Democratic Serb Party or SDSS [Vojislav STANIMIROVIC]; Istrian Democratic Assembly or IDS [Ivan JAKOVCIC]; Liberal Party or LS [Zlatko BENASIC]; Party of Liberal Democrats or Libra [Jozo RADOS] (in 2005 merged with HNS); Social Democratic Party of Croatia or SDP [Ivica RACAN]

Political pressure groups and leaders:
NA

International organisation participation:
ABEDA, BIS, CE, CEI, EAPC, EBRD, FAO, IADB, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICCt, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ISO, ITU, MIGA, MINURSO, MINUSTAH, NAM (observer), OAS (observer), OPCW, OSCE, PCA, PFP, UN, UNAMSIL, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNFICYP, UNIDO, UNMEE, UNMIL, UNMOGIP, UNOCI, UPU, WCO, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTO

Diplomatic representation in the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Neven JURICA
chancery: 2343 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20008
telephone: [1] (202) 588-5899
FAX: [1] (202) 588-8936
consulate(s) general: Chicago, Los Angeles, New York

Diplomatic representation from the US:
chief of mission: Ambassador Ralph FRANK
embassy: 2 Thomas Jefferson, 10010 Zagreb
mailing address: use street address
telephone: [385] (1) 661-2200
FAX: [385] (1) 661-2373

Flag description:
red, white, and blue horizontal bands with Croatian coat of arms (red and white checkered)

Economy

Overview:
Once one of the wealthiest of the Yugoslav republics, Croatia's economy suffered badly during the 1991-95 war as output collapsed and the country missed the early waves of investment in Central and Eastern Europe that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since 2000, however, Croatia's economic fortunes have begun to improve slowly, with moderate but steady GDP growth between 4% and 5% led by a rebound in tourism and credit-driven consumer spending. Inflation over the same period has remained tame and the currency, the kuna, stable. Nevertheless, difficult problems still remain, including a stubbornly high unemployment rate, a growing trade deficit and uneven regional development. The state retains a large role in the economy, as privatisation efforts often meet stiff public and political resistance. While macroeconomic stabilisation has largely been achieved, structural reforms lag because of deep resistance on the part of the public and lack of strong support from politicians. The EU accession process should accelerate fiscal and structural reform.

GDP:
purchasing power parity - $50.33 billion (2004 est.)

GDP - real growth rate:
3.7% (2004 est.)

GDP - per capita:
purchasing power parity - $11,200 (2004 est.)

GDP - composition by sector:
agriculture: 8.2%
industry: 30.1%
services: 61.7% (2004 est.)

Labour force:
1.71 million (2004 est.)

Labour force - by occupation:
agriculture 2.7%, industry 32.8%, services 64.5% (2004)

Unemployment rate:
13.8% (2004 est.)

Population below poverty line:
11% (2003)

Household income or consumption by percentage share:
lowest 10%: 3.4%
highest 10%: 24.5% (2003 est.)

Distribution of family income - Gini index:
29 (1998)

Inflation rate (consumer prices):
2.5% (2004 est.)

Investment (gross fixed):
28.6% of GDP (2004 est.)

Budget:
revenues: $14.14 billion
expenditures: $15.65 billion, including capital expenditures of NA (2004 est.)

Public debt:
41.7% of GDP (2004 est.)

Agriculture - products:
wheat, corn, sugar beets, sunflower seed, barley, alfalfa, clover, olives, citrus, grapes, soybeans, potatoes; livestock, dairy products

Industries:
chemicals and plastics, machine tools, fabricated metal, electronics, pig iron and rolled steel products, aluminum, paper, wood products, construction materials, textiles, shipbuilding, petroleum and petroleum refining, food and beverages; tourism

Industrial production growth rate:
2.7% (2004 est.)

Electricity - production:
12.51 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - consumption:
15.2 billion kWh (2002)

Electricity - exports:
406 million kWh (2002)

Electricity - imports:
3.966 billion kWh (2002)

Oil - production:
21,000 bbl/day (2004 est.)

Oil - consumption:
89,000 bbl/day (2001 est.)

Oil - exports:
NA

Oil - imports:
NA

Oil - proved reserves:
93.6 million bbl (1 January 2002)

Natural gas - production:
1.76 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - consumption:
2.84 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - exports:
0 cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - imports:
1.08 billion cu m (2001 est.)

Natural gas - proved reserves:
34.36 billion cu m (1 January 2002)

Current account balance:
$-1.925 billion (2004 est.)

Exports:
$7.845 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Exports - commodities:
transport equipment, textiles, chemicals, foodstuffs, fuels

Exports - partners:
Italy 23.1%, Bosnia and Herzegovina 14.7%, Germany 11.5%, Austria 9.6%, Slovenia 7.7% (2004)

Imports:
$16.7 billion f.o.b. (2004 est.)

Imports - commodities:
machinery, transport and electrical equipment, chemicals, fuels and lubricants, foodstuffs

Imports - partners:
Italy 17.3%, Germany 15.7%, Slovenia 7.1%, Austria 7.1%, Russia 7%, France 4.3% (2004)

Reserves of foreign exchange and gold:
$8.563 billion (2004 est.)

Debt - external:
$26.4 billion (2004 est.)

Economic aid - recipient:
ODA $166.5 million (2002)

Currency (code):
kuna (HRK)

Exchange rates:
kuna per US dollar - 6.0358 (2004), 6.7035 (2003), 7.8687 (2002), 8.34 (2001), 8.2766 (2000)

Fiscal year:
calendar year

Communications

Telephones - main lines in use:
1.89 million (2005)

Telephones - mobile cellular:
2.984 million (2005)

Telephone system:
general assessment: NA
domestic: reconstruction plan calls for replacement of all analog circuits with digital and enlarging the network; a backup will be included in the plan for the main trunk
international: country code - 385; digital international service is provided through the main switch in Zagreb; Croatia participates in the Trans-Asia-Europe (TEL) fiber-optic project, which consists of two fiber-optic trunk connections with Slovenia and a fiber-optic trunk line from Rijeka to Split and Dubrovnik; Croatia is also investing in ADRIA 1, a joint fiber-optic project with Germany, Albania, and Greece (2000)

Radio broadcast stations:
AM 16, FM 98, shortwave 5 (1999)

Television broadcast stations:
36 (plus 321 repeaters) (September 1995)

Internet country code:
.hr

Internet hosts:
18,825 (2006)

Internet users:
1.451 million (2005)

Transportation

Railways:
total: 2,726 km
standard gauge: 2,726 km 1.435-m gauge (984 km electrified) (2004)

Highways:
total: 28,344 km
paved: 23,979 km (including 455 km of expressways)
unpaved: 4,365 km (2002)

Waterways:
785 km (2006)

Pipelines:
gas 1,340 km; oil 583 km (2006)

Ports and harbours:
Omisalj, Ploce, Rijeka, Sibenik, Vukovar (on Danube)

Merchant marine:
total: 73 ships (1,000 GRT or over) 750,579 GRT/ 1,178,786 DWT
by type: bulk carrier 25, cargo 12, chemical tanker 2, passenger/ cargo 25, petroleum tanker 4, refrigerated cargo 1, roll on/ roll off 4
foreign-owned: 1 (Denmark 1)
registered in other countries: 31 (2005)

Airports:
68 (2006)

Airports - with paved runways:
total: 23
over 3,047 m: 2
2,438 to 3,047 m: 6
1,524 to 2,437 m: 2
914 to 1,523 m: 4
under 914 m: 9 (2006)

Airports - with unpaved runways:
total: 45
1,524 to 2,437 m: 1
914 to 1,523 m: 7
under 914 m: 37 (2006)

Heliports:
2 (2006)

Military

Military branches:
Ground Forces (Hrvatska Vojska, HKoV), Naval Forces (Hrvatska Ratna Mornarica, HRM), Air and Air Defense Forces (Hrvatsko Ratno Zrakoplovstvo i Protuzrakoplovna Obrana, HRZiPZO)

Military manpower - military age and obligation:
18 years of age for compulsory military service, with 6-month service obligation; 16 years of age with consent for voluntary service; Croatian Military Police planning to end conscription in 2005 (December 2004)

Military manpower - availability:
males age 18-49: 1,005,058 (2005 est.)

Military manpower - fit for military service:
males age 18-49: 725,914 (2005 est.)

Military manpower - reaching military age annually:
males: 29,020 (2005 est.)

Military expenditures - dollar figure:
$620 million (2004)

Military expenditures - percent of GDP:
2.39% (2005 est.)

Transnational Issues

Disputes - international:
discussions continue with Bosnia and Herzegovina over several small disputed sections of the boundary; the Croatia-Slovenia land and maritime boundary agreement, which would have ceded most of Pirin Bay and maritime access to Slovenia and several villages to Croatia, remains un-ratified and in dispute; as a European Union peripheral state, neighbouring Slovenia must conform to the strict Schengen border rules to curb illegal migration and commerce through southeastern Europe while encouraging close cross-border ties with Croatia

Refugees and internally displaced persons:
IDPs: 12,600 (Croats and Serbs displaced in 1992-1995 war) (2004)

Illicit drugs:
transit point along the Balkan route for Southwest Asian heroin to Western Europe; has been used as a transit point for maritime shipments of South American cocaine bound for Western Europe