In Croatia, European issues are trumped by domestic preoccupations

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For the purposes of this article, we sought clues on the EU programmes by reaching out to the main political parties. Namely: the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ, which won 40% of the seats in the parliamentary elections); the Social Democrats (SDP, 28%); the Homeland Movement (DP, rightwing populist, 9%); The Bridge (Most, conservative, 7%); We Can! (Možemo, eco-socialist, the Croatian equivalent of Spain’s Podemos, 6%).

Although…