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This paper analyses the political background of the departure of the Croatian Heritage Foundation's (CHF) delegation to Australia in summer 1971, i.e. the political reasons behind it and the purpose of the visit. Believing their influence among the expatriates to be great, the CHF decided to use an opportune moment of political divisions among the expatriates in order to neutralise the influence of the political émigrés among the expatriates while simultaneously attempting to gain the support of most expatriates for building closer ties with the homeland and accepting its socialist social-political system. The political divisions among the expatriates, the so-called differentiation process, was a consequence of political differences among the émigrés themselves, the arrival of new expatriates, and the positive influence of political movements in Croatia during the Croatian Spring. This process was particularly prominent in Australia, which was also seen as a bastion of reactionary expatriates, strongly influenced by Croatian political émigrés. The CHF delegation's journey was planned in agreement with political factors from the Socialist Republic of Croatia. The tenets of the Tenth Session of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Croatia and the climate of the Croatian Spring—which included a strengthening of Croatian identity at the expense of Yugoslav identity among expatriates—served as their political milestones. The Football Federation of Croatia worked with the CHF in Croatia, while the managements of the football clubs 'Croatia', Croatian associations that split off from Croatian Halls owned by political émigrés, Committees of the Croatian Cancer League, the 'Croatian Youth' organisation, and parts of the clergy and the pro-Yugoslav émigrés who were ready to work with the rest of the Croatian expatriates were all seen as potential collaborators. The Yugoslav diplomatic missions and consular posts were seen as the factors that should spearhead the differentiation process, but were also ...

The assumption is that expansionary monetary policy is good for reducing unemployment, and vice versa. In this context, the status of monetary policy is defined, which is called monetary conditions. For this, the IFIS Financial Conditions Index published by the Institute of Economics, Zagreb, was used as a synthetic indicator of the state of numerous monetary variables (27 variables). By analysing the movements of restrictive and expansionary monetary conditions presented by the IFIS index and the unemployment rate conducted in this paper, it can be concluded that there is a strong link between the index of macroeconomic monetary conditions and unemployment in Croatia. This relationship operates with a time lag of one year, i.e., a change in monetary conditions leads to a change in the overall unemployment rate after one year. Although there is a link between monetary conditions and youth unemployment, it is weaker because youth unemployment is significantly influenced by other factors. These are primarily emigration after Croatia's accession to the European Union and liberalization of the labour market. ; Pretpostavka je da ekspanzivna monetarna politika pogoduje smanjenju nezaposlenosti, a vrijedi i obrnuto. U tom kontekstu definiran je status monetarne politike koji se naziva monetarnim uvjetima. Za to je korišten indeks financijskih uvjeta IFIS koji objavljuje Ekonomski institut, Zagreb, kao sintetički pokazatelj stanja brojnih monetarnih varijabli (27 varijabli). Analizom kretanja restriktivnih i ekspanzivnih monetarnih uvjeta prikazanih IFIS indeksom i stope nezaposlenosti koja je provedena u ovom radu, može se zaključiti da postoji jaka veza između indeksa makroekonomskih monetarnih uvjeta i nezaposlenosti u Hrvatskoj. Ta veza djeluje s pomakom od godinu dana, odnosno promjena monetarnih uvjeta dovodi do promjene u ukupnoj stopi nezaposlenosti nakon godinu dana. Iako postoji veza i između monetarnih uvjeta i nezaposlenosti mladih, ona je slabija jer na nezaposlenost mladih značajnije utječu drugi ...