As Croatia celebrates independence, Serbia mourns
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ZAGREB/BELGRADE() - Croats celebrated its independence victory on Friday while Serbs mourned, with relations between the former-Yugoslav neighbours strained by a war of words that could hinder Serbia's bid to join the European Union.
Serbia's prime minister wrote to the EU this week to protest against what he called anti-Serb politics in Croatia, an EU member which his foreign minister accused of "rehabilitating fascism" after a court annuled a 1946 verdict against a Catholic cleric whom Serbia views as a war criminal.
Croatia's foreign minister replied: "We are not going to allow anyone to talk to Croatia like this."
