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Foreign direct investments have a great impact on any national economy. They contribute to economic growth and bring modern technology into the national economy. After political democratization and economic liberalisation in Central and Eastern European countries, many of them manifested deficiency of capital for investments in the national economies. Geographically, Croatia is located in the region of Central Europe. Croatia has shown intention to be a member of the European Union. Unfortunately, Croatia nowadays is not included with other countries from the region of Central Europe and Eastern Europe in a program of unification to EU. However, Croatia is included in the package with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia, Macedonia and Albania. All these countries are treated as a Western Balkan group and they are not included in any program of unification with EU. Even Romania and Bulgaria have much better chances to be included in EU sooner than Croatia. The Croatian government's "economic" explanation for this fact is due to a lack of interest of foreign investors for Croatia. The question is: is the amount invested by foreign investors through foreign direct investments really significantly smaller in Croatia than in other Central and East European countries? That is why it is necessary to research how foreign investors targeted often Croatia? What is the position of Croatia on the world FDI market compared with other Central and Eastern European countries? First of all, the main characteristics of FDI need to be examined.

Although victims of aggression, Croats have been labeled as intolerant & aggressors themselves. However, contrary to expectation, several independent studies of tolerance have shown a relatively high level of political tolerance in Croatia. In an American study, data pointing to the toleration paradox were interpreted as inconsistent toleration. Also, some incidents that occurred in Croatia pertaining to the toleration paradox were used as indicators of the lack of tolerance. 2 Tables, 12 References. Adapted from the source document.

Between 1986 and 1999, radical and far-reaching changes occurred in Croatia, which were presumed to have considerably affected the changes in the attitudes and behavioral patterns of the young. To perceive these changes more clearly, we need a reminder of Croatia in the middle 1980's and at the end of the past century. At the time of the first research, Croatia was, along with Slovenia, the most developed republic in the former state, the Socialist Federate Republic of Yugoslavia. Its ethnic composition was relatively heterogeneous since almost a quarter of the population did not belong to the majority - Croatian. The political system, like in rest of Yugoslavia, was normatively defined as self-management socialism. The ideological and political postulates this political system was based on included, among others, the brotherhood and unity of (the constitutional) nations and ethnic groups, social ownership, workers' self-management, a social and class conflict-free society guaranteeing a relatively high minimum of social rights (employment, and through this it, health and retirement insurance, and even the right to public housing), and on the monopoly of the Communist Party authority, as the working class's "avant-garde" and the main promoter of the cult of J. Broz Tito. This totalitarian society, during the mid 1980's, faced an economic and political crisis that constantly deepened after Tito's withdrawal from the political arena. The disappearance of the autocratic party and state leader, who was the unquestionable political authority and arbiter for almost four decades, hastened the surfacing of, what had been up to then, suppressed antagonisms as well as non-dogmatic ideas. It was actually a period of a certain political liberalization, visible in the decreasing of ideological pressures and in the questioning of the socialist project as the best possible form of social and political system for a community, but also in the escalation of national conflicts that would, in the end, bring about the disillusion of ...

In today's world, migrations of populations are increasingly more frequent due to a variety of reasons. Different states approach this issue in a different way. Thus, we may distinguish between those that employ more restrictive immigration policies & those that are open to immigration. The Republic of Croatia has built its immigration policy on the fact that it is among the countries with the biggest diasporas in the world. Since its people emigrated from Croatia for many years after WWII, the new Croatian government after the independence shaped its immigration policy that was supposed to stimulate its emigrants to return to Croatia. The Ministry of Immigration was founded with the task of implementing the state's policy of immigration regarding the return of emigrants. 3 Tables, 10 Figures, 1 Graph. Adapted from the source document.