The country is scheduled to begin its membership talks with the Union on 17 March, but the EU has made that conditional on Zagreb's full co-operation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and particularly on the handover of fugitive General Ante Gotovina.
Zemlja bi, kako je planirano, 17. marta trebalo da počne razgovore o učlanjenju u Uniju, ali je EU to uslovila potpunom saradnjom Zagreba sa Međunarodnim krivičnim sudom za bivšu Jugoslaviju (MKSJ), a posebno predajom odbeglog generala Ante Gotovine.