Ivica Racan; Premier Helped Croatia Recover From Civil Wars From: The Washington Post | Date: April 30, 2007 | Copyright 2007 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Ivica Racan, 63, the former Croatian prime minister who rebuilt economic and trade ties with Europe after the bloody civil wars of the 1990s, died April 29 at a clinic in Zagreb, Croatia. He had kidney cancer.

Mr. Racan had stepped down recently as the leader of Croatia's strongest opposition party, the Social Democratic Party.

A former communist leader, he led a governing coalition from 2000 to 2003 that was fully committed to making Croatia a part of mainstream Europe after a d...

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