ICE - special Croatia's Adriatic zone a new source of friction with Slovenia
As the New Year began Croatia began enforcing what it calls an ecological and fisheries zone in the Adriatic Sea. The goal of the zone is to protect Adriatic Sea fishing stocks which Croatia says are being depleted by Italy's larger fishing fleet. Croatia had agreed to allow exemptions for EU countries, especially its neighbours Italy and Slovenia, but its decision to enforce the zone of the has once again upset those ever-fragile relations between Croatia and Slovenia.
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