Pursuits
Croatia Sheds Bombs for Wine Cafe Culture as EU Entry Nears
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Under shellfire on Christmas Eve 1991, 13-year-old Maja Biloglav fled Zadar by boat at night, sent away by her parents as the Yugoslav army surrounded the Adriatic town following Croatia’s declaration of independence.
Now 34 and back in Zadar, the administrator for a rental company says she hopes Croatia’s July 1 entry into the European Union will keep nationalism across the former Yugoslavia from festering into violence again.