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Croatia Clashes With EU Over Adriatic Eco-zone
By pushing ahead with his plan to restrict fishing off Croatia's Adriatic coast, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has clashed with the European Union, which Croatia hopes to join in a few years. Trouble broke over a 40-mile (72-kilometre) ecologically-protected belt (ZERP) in the Adriatic, which the Zagreb parliament declared in 2003 but suspended, pending negotiations with EU. Croatia's Adriatic neighbours and EU states Slovenia and Italy say that ZERP - which regulates fishing, including seasonal bans, the size of ships, nets and the catch - would hit their fishermen hard.
Croatia has been an EU membership candidate since 2004, and is negotiating accession with a target date of no later than June 2009.
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