Zagreb Summit puts enlargement to South-East Europe back on the agenda

As the first European summit organised outside the European Union, under the French presidency of the EU, the Zagreb Summit brought together the heads of state and governments of the EU-15 member states, as well as those of the countries of South-East Europe (Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Albania). It marked an important phase in the approach of the countries of the region to the EU in anticipation of their future integration, as part of the Stabilisation and Association Process. For Croatia, it marked the beginning of the process that would lead, thirteen years later, to Croatia's accession to the European Union.

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Šibenik Cathedral designated as a World Heritage Site

Among the first buildings of the Early Renaissance, the Šibenik Cathedral of St. James was built from 1433 to 1477. It is a work of the architect Juraj Dalmatinac (Giorgio da Sebenico, circa 1420–1473), but its upper part was finished by Nikola Firentinac (Niccolò Fiorentin, 1418–1506). Of all Croatian monuments, it best illustrates the passage from the flamboyant Gothic style to Renaissance. The cathedral was the first building in Europe whose stone vault was built without mortar or wooden structural elements, only with stone panels chiselled to fit and interlock.