http://aa.com.tr/en/analysis-news/clock-is-ticking-for-the-balkans/648957 Author: Jahja Muhasilovic The recent parliamentary elections in Croatia show that the country’s prospects do not seem bright. Due to the failure to form a government over the last 10 months, parliamentary elections had to be repeated. The nationalist Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) won the elections last November with only a slight lead and thus will have to look for a coalition partner to form a functioning government. Founded by Croatia’s first President Franjo Tudjman, HDZ is a right-wing party that, in its governing body and voting base, incorporates members who are not hiding their sympathies for the infamous Ustashas, an organization responsible for the killing of hundreds of thousands across the region during World War II. One of the well-known people who openly sympathize with the Ustashas is Croatia’s Culture Minister Zlatko Hasanbegovic. What is more important is that HDZ’s victory is raising