Croatia Makes a Break with the Past

Reporting on the presidential elections in Croatia some weeks ago, the BBC described them as a competition between "a professor and Al Capone". The winner, Ivo Josipovic, is a 52-year-old university law professor and a composer of classical music. With his white hair, baby-face and timid smile, he gives the impression of a pleasant, albeit bookish, central European man, the total opposite of the Balkan macho stereotype.

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