The Role of Croatia in the Expansion of the European Union and NATO

NATO wishes to have relations with stable and well-organized states within clear and stable borders. At the same time the EU is undergoing a continuous, complex and long-term process of socio-political harmonization, involving the standardization of legislation, establishment of common external borders and introduction of a common monetary system. Croatia undoubtedly belongs to the Christian, Central-European and Mediterranean civilizational circle. In the period of the intention of international community to extend the ancient border of the European civilization to the Black Sea by europeanizing of the unstable Balkans Croatia has a very important geographic position. The international community believes that real stabilization of that region could be achieved only by economic development, and broader economic cooperation