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The Moment After: Culture Wars in a Polarized Croatia

Publikace na Filozofická fakulta |
2021

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In 󰀲󰀰󰀱󰀳, an open 'culture war' broke out at the very moment of Croa-tia's EU accession. During the standoff between conservative Catho-lic organizations and the socialist government over a referendum onsame-sex marriage, Prime Minister (now Croatia's President) ZoranMilanović complained to the media that there was a culture war be-ing aggressively waged in Croatia. 󰀱 Tat year, conservative Catholicssteered a school reform project through to the Constitutional Courtbecause of their opposition to sexual education; they also gatheredalmost 󰀷󰀵󰀰,󰀰󰀰󰀰 signatures for a referendum on a same-sex marriageban.

Next to public conflicts over Catholic values, Croatia's past hasproven to have even greater polarization potential. 󰀲󰀰󰀱󰀳 was alsowhen yearly public commemorations of the Second World War in-creasingly pitted a nationalist camp against an anti-fascist one.