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This article is about the association in Croatia. For the association in Kosovo, seeCommunity of Serb Municipalities.

Joint Council of Municipalities
Croatian:Zajedničko vijeće općina
Serbian:Заједничко веће општина
Flag of Serbs of Croatia,Croatia, andEU, at the seat of the Joint Council of Municipalities
Member municipalities in dark green
AbbreviationZVO
Formation1997[1] (due toErdut Agreement[2] from 1995)
Founded atVukovar
Legal statusSui generis body formed on the basis ofinternational agreement
PurposeProtection of interests of and rights of Serbs in Eastern Croatia
HeadquartersVukovar[3][4] (regional office inBeli Manastir),[5]Croatia
Location
Region served
Areas that were under the control of formerEastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia
MembershipTrpinja
Erdut
Markušica
Borovo
Jagodnjak
Negoslavci
Šodolovci
Official language
Croatian
Serbian
President
Dejan Drakulić[6]
Secretary
Vinko Lazić[6]
Main organ
Assembly of the Joint Council of Municipalities
AffiliationsSerb National Council
Budget6,363,531Croatian kunas[7] (≈860,000 € or ≈950,000 $) (2019)
WebsiteOfficial site
TV Production

TheJoint Council of Municipalities inCroatia (Croatian:Zajedničko vijeće općina;Serbian:Заједничко веће општина,romanized: Zajedničko veće opština; abbr. ЗВО,ZVO) is an elected consultativesui generis body which constitutes a form of culturalself-government for seven municipalities with an ethnicSerb majority in eastern Croatia (easternSlavonia andBaranya regions). The body was established in the initial aftermath of theCroatian War of Independence as a part of theinternational community's efforts to peacefully settle the conflict inself-proclaimedEastern Slavonia, Baranya and Western Syrmia. The establishment of the Joint Council of Municipalities was one of the explicit provisions of theErdut Agreement which called upon theUnited Nations to establish itsUNTAEStransitional administration.

The Joint Council of Municipalities is not an autonomous administrative unit but a form ofcultural autonomy in conformity with relevantCroatian andinternational law including provisions onlocal government cooperation.[8] The body and some of its partners are actively pushing for formal legal recognition of Joint Council of Municipalities legal personality within theConstructional Act on the Rights of National Minorities with limited success. The proposed change aims to transform its current standing of a free association into a more transparently institutionalized one.

The Joint Council of Municipalities is the founding member of theSerb National Council, national coordination of theSerbs in Croatia.

History

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Background

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Eastern Slavonia, Baranja, and Western Syrmia

During theCroatian War of Independence, a self-proclaimedSerb Autonomous RegionSAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia (Eastern Slavonia) was formed along theDanube river in eastern Croatia. SAO Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia wasethnically cleansed of its non-Serb population and it became part of the self-proclaimedRepublic of Serbian Krajina. Within the Republic of Serbian Krajina, Eastern Slavonia was geographically separated from the rest of the entity, preserved certain institutional specificity, and contrary to the rest of Krajina which aligned itself withRepublika Srpska, Eastern Slavonia closely aligned its policy with theFederal Republic of Yugoslavia. Several Serb military and political officials, including Milošević, were later indicted and in some cases jailed for war crimes committed during and after the conflict in Eastern Slavonia.[9][10]

In the summer of 1995, theCroatian Army took control of the Republic of Serbian Krajina in operationsFlash andStorm. The only area of Croatia that remained under Serb control was Eastern Slavonia.[11] Contrary to Krajina, the international community under the United States leadership opposed military solution in Eastern Slavonia and insisted on reintegration based on preservation of the multi-ethnic character of the region. Opposition to a military solution was fueled by the need not to undermine peace efforts in Bosnia and by the humanitarian consequences of the previous two operations. Contrary to Krajina it was expected that the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia would get involved in the conflict in Eastern Croatia potentially leading to further escalation.

After Croatian expression of readiness to intervene militarily, international community efforts and agreement of government in Belgrade local Serb leaders concluded that an agreement is a necessity if they do not want to face the same fate as those in the western parts ofKrajina. Meanwhile,Slobodan Milošević andFranjo Tuđman reached a consensus via theDayton Agreement and on 12 November, theErdut Agreement ended the war in easternCroatia.[11] The transitional period was initiated in which the region was reintegrated and directly governed by theUnited Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium. It was one of the rare cases in which the UN created a protectorate and directly governed the region in question. As an ultimate arbiter in 1997, the UNTAES established predominantly Serb municipalities in the region.[12]

The Erdut agreement guaranteed the Serbs "the highest level of internationally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms". The Serb community was given the right to "appoint a joint Council of Municipalities" basis on which the body was formed.[11] The council was established in 1997[1][13] The council is one of the founding members of theSerb National Council.[14][15]

History of the Municipal Cooperation in Croatia

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Communities of Municipalities in Socialist Republic of Croatia, 1986

Forms of the state-organized or free municipal organization were known in the Croatian legal system since the time of theSocialist Republic of Croatia within theSocialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The so-called communities of municipalities were established in the 1974 constitution as first-level administrative units within the republic. From 1986 their self-governing rights were partially limited. The concept of a free municipal association was used by Serb nationalists in Croatia at an early stage of the conflict in the formation of the self-proclaimedRepublic of Serbian Krajina. At that time Croatian Serb politicianJovan Rašković argued for the creation of the "integral region" via the establishment of an Association of Municipalities.[16] While the Croatian legal system at the time formally permitted such a form of municipal organization the move was perceived as highly controversial and led to some of the first clashes.[16]

The idea of Serb municipal cooperation reappeared in Eastern Slavonia after the collapse of the Republic of Serbian Krajina. Croatian Government unequivocally refused some of the initial comments and proposals by theUnited States PresidentBill Clinton and Ambassador to CroatiaPeter Galbraith which included references to the previousZ-4 Plan proposal. This led to the abandonment of the idea of Serb territorial autonomy in the region. This limited future cooperation to inter-municipal forms of cooperation. As any such cooperation might have been perceived as antagonistic and controversial and therefore prevented, the right to establish a joint council of municipalities was explicitly included in the Erdut Agreement. In June 1996 civil society organizations from the region collected 50,000 signatures and on 28 July that same year, they organized demonstrations "For the Just Peace" in Vukovar in which they requested that the region remain one territorial unit with autonomous executive, legislative and judicial powers.[17] In the second half of the year, they asked Transitional AdministratorJacques Paul Klein to keep the region as an Association of Serb Municipalities with executive powers.[17]

In January 1997 expanded session of the regional Executive Council responded to the Croatian Letter of Intent by requesting the creation of a new Serb county and demilitarization of the region.[17]Vojislav Stanimirović told to media from Belgrade that by dividing Serbs into two counties Croatia is trying to dilute political initiatives by the Serb community.[17] This division led to demonstrations which reached their peak on 11 February when 12,000 gathered in Vukovar.[17] Regional Assembly called the referendum on the territorial integrity of the region on 5 March 1997 with the reported turnout of 100,275 voters or 77.40% out of which 99.01% voted for the region to stay undivided within Croatia.[17] UNTAES officials stated that the question asked in the referendum was never one option recognized in the Erdut Agreement.[17] Later on, Vojislav Stanimirović met with Croatian PresidentFranjo Tuđman where Stanimirović stated that "the best option would be a Serb county, but if neither Croatia nor the international community is willing to accept it then the formation of the council of Serb municipalities as planned in Erdut Agreement is the second-best option".[17]

Formation

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Legal basis for the establishment of the Joint Council of Municipalities was provided in the article 12 of theBasic Agreement on the Region of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia more commonly known as theErdut Agreement. Signing of the agreement led to the establishment of the UN led transitional administration in the region. Signing of the agreement was welcomed in theUnited Nations Security Council Resolution 1023 and the process it initiated was further elaborated in resolutions number1025,1037 and1043.

Towards the end of the transitional administration Croatian Government addressed members of theUnited Nations Security Council on 13 January 1997 in theLetter of Intent of the Government of the Republic of Croatia in Regard to Finalization of Reintegration of Areas Under the Transitional Administration in local context more commonly known simply as theLetter of Intent. This letter was perceived as a precondition for successful end of the UNTAES mission's mandate and it was signed by then Deputy Prime MinisterIvica Kostović. In it Croatian Government reassured the United Nations Security Council of its intention to organize free and fair local elections in which Serbs and other ethnic communities in the region will be enabled to participate. Article 4 of the letter provided guarantees of proportional Serb participation in political life in Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja counties on the basis of theConstitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia (the first version of the act adopted in 1991) and the Law on Local Government and Self-Government. Article 4 state that the Serb community in the areas which were under the UNTAES administration will form the Joint Council of Municipalities. The letter state the intention to hold regular meeting between Council's representatives and thePresident of Croatia each four months.[17]

The founding Charter of the organization was signed byJure Radić andMiloš Vojnović on 15 July 1997 at theOsijek Airport in the presence ofUNTAES HeadJacques Paul Klein.[17] In early August the president of Committee for Civic, Human and Minority Rights, Branko Jurišić, complained to representatives of the European Union Monitoring Mission that the council had not been registered inZagreb although it had already begun to carry out most of its tasks on the ground.[17] This condition would last until the end ofUNTAES mission in 1998.[17]

Contemporary period

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The 31st Plenary MeetingVenice Commission on 20–21 June 1997 adopted itsMemorandum on the revision of the Croatian constitutional law of Human Rights and Rights of Minorities in which it recommended "inclusion of elements of the "Letter of intent of the Government of the Republic of Croatia on the peaceful reintegration of the region under transitional administration" in the Revised Constitutional Law".[18] Commission expressed its opinion that revised Constitutional Act should:

set out the framework for the functioning and competence of the "Joint Council of Municipalities" and of the "Council of the Serb Ethnic Community", in accordance with the principles enshrined in theEuropean Charter of local Self-Government, theFramework Convention for the protection of national minorities and Recommendation 1201 (1993) of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.[18]

Already before the end of the UNTAES mission on 15 January 1998 Croatian Parliament suspended implementation of certain elements of theConstitutional Law on Human Rights and Freedoms and Rights of National and Ethnic Communities or Minorities in the Republic of Croatia related to territorial autonomy of the Autonomous Districts of Knin and Glina. In that respect the law was not fully in force and both the Government and the Venice Commission favored introduction of a new constitutional act whereby the commission recommended that “The rights of national minorities acquired by international agreements before the date this constitutional act takes effect may not be restricted or changed by this Constitutional Act”.[19]

Number of meetings took place between the 1997 Government's decision on establishment of the Joint Council of Municipalities and 1999 registration in which Serb political representatives and members of Croatian Government negotiated the appropriate format of registration of the new entity.[20] Representatives of the council requested that together with its sui-generis nature it should have properties of public-legal entity.[20] Members of Croatian Government were divided whether to support the request for this type of registration or not which blocked the council from participation in some forms of official communication and standards and fixed streamlines of public funding.[20]

Upon the insistence from Serb representatives and the Venice Commission temporary solution was reached until the enactment of the newConstitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia in 2003.[20] Based on it Joint Council of Municipalities was registered on the basis of the Government of Croatia formal decision published in official gazetteNarodne novine (NN 137/1998, document number 1673) while Serb National Council was registered on the basis of the Law on Non-government Organizations.[20] While the Government of Croatia formal decision defines the Joint Council of Municipalities as a public-legal entity in practice it enjoyed the rights and obligations of non-governmental organization making both organizations just one among many entities instead of legally recognized umbrella organizations in Eastern Slavonia and Croatia respectively.[20]

Vesna Pusić
Milorad Pupovac

In 2010 request to amend legal standing of the entity reached the Parliament of Croatia during the discussion on amendments of the Constitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities. The original proposal by theCabinet of Jadranka Kosor to lawmakers included constitutional amendment accepting requests for a changed legal standing with the following provision:

In the area of Vukovar-Syrmia and Osijek-Baranja County and in accordance with theBasic Agreement on Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium of 12 November 1995. (Erdut Agreement) and theLetter of Intent of the Croatian Government of 13 January 1997., the Joint Council of Municipalities functions as a legal entity.[21]

This proposal by the center right government provoked a heated Parliamentary debate with criticism arising from the centrist liberalCroatian People's Party and followed by the center left MPs. Opponents argued that this proposal will create a kind of local government unit with no parallel in the rest of the country.Milorad Pupovac, MP of the Serb national minority condemned the MPs who were willing to recognize the full independence ofKosovo, while objecting to the autonomy of the local Serbian community.[22] President of theIndependent Democratic Serbian PartyVojislav Stanimirović condemned MPVesna Pusić (then-President of the National Committee for Monitoring Accession Negotiations with EU).[23]

At the Joint Council of Municipalities Emergency Council Meeting on the next day then PresidentDragan Crnogorac condemned statements by Pusić,Ingrid Antičević-Marinović,Josip Leko andZoran Vinković.[24] He also said;We are not autonomists or separatists, we are legally elected representatives in the local government and members of the Council.[24] Pusić explained her attitude later in the weeklyNovosti where she said that she believes that the council should definitely exist but that it does not need constitutional protection.[21] Eventually a compromise was reached that the council would receive preferred status, ensured by an ordinary, not constitutional law.[25]

The Joint Council of Municipalities is the target of sharp criticism by the Croatian right-wing groups. TheCroatian Party of Rights[26] claims that the Council represents a continuation and continuity of Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia.[27]

Since the2013 enlargement of the European Union when Croatia joined the Union as its 28th member state the country is faced with the rise of nationalism and intolerance towards minorities.[28] Those developments pushed the Council of Europe to express alarm over the rise ofright-wing extremism andneofascism in Croatia.[29] One of the first escalation of increased right-wing sentiments happened in 2013 in Vukovar and the rest of the country with theAnti-Cyrillic protests in Croatia. Joint Council of Municipalities called press conference related to protests which attracted the highest media interest since the end of the UN led reintegration in 1997.[30] At the conference Milorad Pupovac called politicians "not to play with fire" and warned then president of theCroatian Democratic UnionTomislav Karamarko not to interfere into legal field of the interpretation of theConstitutional Act on the Rights of National Minorities in the Republic of Croatia.[30] During the term in office of theThirteenth Government of the Republic of Croatia between 22 January and 19 October 2016 in which Tomislav Karamarko served as theFirst Deputy Prime Minister of Croatia state funding for the Joint Council of Municipalities was brought into question.[31] Since the2016 elections new Prime MinisterAndrej Plenković is trying to ease growing political tensions by controlling his own party and leading it towards more moderate course.[32] However, financial andsocial pressure which the Joint Council of Municipalities faced triggered renewed calls for the change in its legal status. At the Third Grand Assembly of theSerb National Council which took place in theVatroslav Lisinski Concert Hall in February 2018 and was attended by both thePresident of CroatiaKolinda Grabar-Kitarović and thePresident of SerbiaAleksandar Vučić Assembly adopted pronouncement requesting that "institutions of the Serb community, and the Serb National Council and the Joint Council of Municipalities in particular, must be granted the status of minority self-governments".[33]

President of the Republic of Croatia subsequently issued following statement:

In the Republic of Croatia, as a democratic state, everyone has the right to make a request for the fulfillment of rights that he or she considers important, including the Serb National Council, while at the same time everyone else has the right to support or not such a request. To the extent that the fulfillment of these requirements would presuppose amendments to the law or the adoption of new ones, it is the responsibility of the Government of the Republic of Croatia and the relevant bodies of the Croatian Parliament, or the responsibility of the Croatian Parliament.[33]

Municipalities

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The member municipalities are:Trpinja,Erdut,Markušica,Borovo,Jagodnjak,Negoslavci, andŠodolovci.[34] These municipalities are all located inVukovar-Syrmia andOsijek-Baranja counties. Jagodnjak, Markušica, Šodolovci and Trpinja have a development index of less than 50% of the Croatian average,[35] among the poorest municipalities in Croatia. Borovo, Erdut and Negoslavci have an index of between 50 and 75%.[35] According to 2021 census, these municipalities had a population of 18,925 inhabitants and an area of 587.65 square kilometres, comparable withIsle of Man by territory and withPalau by population.[36] The council's mandate extends to protecting the rights of all 60,500Serbs who live in territory of the former Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia.[37] The Joint Council of Municipalities is not a body of territorial autonomy although its mandate is territorially defined.[38]

Any municipality or town in these two counties where Serbs constitute a certain percentage of the population automatically participate in its work. However, no authority of municipalities was formally transferred to the council. The municipalities also co-operate outside the Council in matters that are not within Council jurisdiction, such as joint appearances at fairs.[39][40]

MunicipalityTrpinjaErdutMarkušicaBorovoJagodnjakNegoslavciŠodolovciTotal
Population (2021)4 166[36]5 534[36]1 800[36]3 685[36]1 504[36]1 012[36]1 224[36]18 925
Area123.87 km2[41]158 km2[42]73.44 km2[43]28.13 km2[44]105 km2[45]21.21 km2[46]78 km2[47]587.65 km2
Settlements7[48]4[42]514[45]17[47]29
Educational institutions854242328
Municipal budgets (2022; in EUR)2,698,223[49]4,292,724[50]1,213,454[51]3,130,342[52]2,340,114[53]1,733,383[54]1,318,166[55]16,726,406

Structure

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The Council consists of an elected Council Assembly, the Commission for Election and Appointment, the Secretariat, the Office of the President and two Offices of vice-presidents who are the vice-presidents of the two counties.[3] Four committees are an integral part of the council:[56]

  • Committee for Civic, Human and Minority Rights
  • Committee for Education, Culture and Sport
  • Committee for Media, Information and Faith Issues
  • Television Production Council

At least once every four months, the Council delegation meets with the President.[57][58] The council has established contacts with theRepublic of Serbia.[59][60][61][62] The Council takes part in projects with the EU and the Ministry of Diaspora of Republic of Serbia.[5]

Assembly of the Joint Council of Municipalities

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Number of Councilors
Percentage of Serbs in Eastern Croatia based on which councilors are selected (2011)

Assembly of the Joint Council of Municipalities is the representative body for the Serb community in Eastern Slavonia. The Assembly is made up of elected members of the Serbian ethnic community from Eastern Slavonia regardless of their party affiliation. They are elected in parts of Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja counties. The election procedure and umber of Councillors is defined in the Statute of the Joint Council of Municipalities.[63]

The municipal councils in which the Serbian community constitute majority, appoints 2 Councillors to the Assembly of the Joint Council of Municipalities.

The statute provides regulation for city councils in which Serb community constitute majority or minority of the population. If Serbs are majority is certain town in Eastern Slavonia they appoint the following number of Councillors:

  • cities with population over 30,000- 6 Councillors
  • cities with population from 10,000 to 30,000- 4 Councillors
  • cities with population up to 10,000- 3 Councillors

The municipal or city councils in which the Serbian community is a minority, appoint half these numbers.

Most members of Council Assembly of Joint Council of Municipalities are members ofIndependent Democratic Serb Party. In 2017 VI Convocation was formed by 24 delegates, 2 from each of Beli Manastir, Borovo, Markušica, Trpinja, Negoslavaci, Šodolovaci, Jagodnjak and Erdut and 1 from each ofStari Jankovci,Nijemci,Darda,Kneževi Vinogradi,Popovac andTompojevci.[64] Deputies of Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja are appointed members of the Assembly. 2 delegates for Vukovar were not appointed in 2017 and their appointment was postponed for a short period.[64]

Local unit in Eastern SlavoniaNumber of

Assembly Councillors

Municipality with Serb majority2
Municipality with Serb minority1
Town with Serb majority (population over 30,000)6
Town with Serb minority (population over 30,000)3
Town with Serb majority (population 10,000-30,000)4
Town with Serb minority (population 10,000-30,000)2
Town with Serb majority (up to 10,000)3
Town with Serb minority (up to 10,000)1

President of the Council

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The incumbent president of the Joint Council of Municipalities is Dejan Drakulić fromIndependent Democratic Serb Party.

  Independent Democratic Serb Party  Non-party

OrderMandatePresidentParty
52021–Dejan Drakulić Independent Democratic Serb Party
42017–2021Srđan Jeremić Independent Democratic Serb Party
32005–2017Dragan Crnogorac Independent Democratic Serb Party
22001–2005Jovan Ajduković Independent Democratic Serb Party
11997–2001Miloš Vojnović Independent Democratic Serb Party

Symbols

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Coat of arms of the Joint Council of Municipalities
Flag of the Joint Council of Municipalities (also theethnic flag of Serbs of Croatia)
Bože pravde is the anthem of the Joint Council of Municipalities (also the national anthem ofSerbia)

As an entity of cultural autonomy, the Joint Council of Municipalities defines official ethnic and cultural symbols which are used in eastern Croatia. Decision on the flag, coat of arms and anthem of Serbs in eastern Croatia was adopted on 14 November 1997.[65] The flag described in the statute of the Joint Council of Municipalities is identical to theflag of Serbs of Croatia subsequently accepted by theSerb National Council.[65] As such it is used around the country on different minority institutions. In addition to the flag, the council's statute defines the usage of the coat of arms of Serbs of Croatia, which is based on the traditional double-headed heraldicSerbian eagle andSerbian cross on a red shield.[65] Behind the shield is a mantle whose internal side is dark blue fringed in the old-gold and with amitre on top.[65] As the Serb National Council does not define the coat of arms, it is therefore used exclusively in eastern Croatia.[65] The statute of the Joint Council of Municipalities definesBože pravde as the anthem of Serbian national minority.[65] While the majority of ethnic communities in Croatia use symbols of their mother countries, this is not the case with Serbs in eastern Croatia as they accepted their symbols during the existence of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and modern symbols of theRepublic of Serbia were accepted only in 2006.[65]

International cooperation

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Over the years the council established contact with various international representatives and partners. Council officials had formal meetings with foreign officials, including with formerPresident of SerbiaBoris Tadić,[66]US Ambassador in Zagreb,[67] and President of theGovernment ofVojvodina,Bojan Pajtić.[68] The council is supporting its member municipalities in joint presentation at international events such as trade fairs.

Education

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Eastern Slavonia, as the area of daily activity of the Joint Council of Municipalities, is characterized by the existence of the regular elementary and secondary school education in minority languages including in Serbian. This type of education is classified in Croatian legal system as the Model A of minority education. Education is conducted either in Croatian or in minority language (Serbian, Hungarian etc.) in accordance with the national curriculum. Education in minority languages involve the so-called national curriculum in which students learn their language for the same number of hours per week as Croatian, while in social science and humanistic subjects such as history, geography, arts and music their national curriculum accounts for one third of the entire studied curriculum, Croatian national content accounts for the second third while European or wider international content covers the last third of the curriculum.

Secondary schools in predominantly Serb settlements are located inDalj (Dalj High School) andBorovo (part of Vukovar high school). High schools in Vukovar and Beli Manastir provide regular education in Serbian as well. Elementary schools in Serb majority municipalities, some other Serb minority settlements and in towns of Vukovar and Beli Manastir provide regular elementary education in Serbian. The Joint Council of Municipalities actively lobby for transfer of the "founding rights" of regional elementary schools from Vukovar-Srijem and Osijek-Baranja counties to its member municipalities.[69] The Council wants to register those schools in which at the moment education is already provided exclusively in Serbian as public Serbian minority schools, therefore enabling them to officially offer exclusively Model A minority education.[69] This idea is opposed by the Vukovar-Srijem County which insist that Croatian-language education should be the primary choice in all schools, while minority language education should be second regular alternative option available only to members of certain minority group.[69] Joint Council of Municipalities at the same time insist that education in Serbian should be available to all students and not only to ethnic Serbs.[69] As of 2011 95% of students in Serbian-language classes in Vukovar were ethnic Serbs, while 86% of students in Croatian-language classes were ethnic Croats.[70]

In some of those schools minority right to establish separate classes led to effective separation of pupils on national basis which led to some criticism of the practice which critics described as segregation.[71] As this separation is not the result of the majority community exclusion of the minority but of conscious and intentional decision and preference of minority communities this form of separation is not conventionally perceived as segregation in international legal instruments such as theConvention against Discrimination in Education. No institutions of higher education operate in any of majority Serb settlements. The majority of Serb students from the region attendUniversity of Novi Sad,University of Osijek,University of Belgrade,University of Zagreb andUniversity of Banja Luka. LocalPolytechnic Lavoslav Ružička Vukovar does not provide education in Serbian despite being active in the region of Eastern Slavonia.

TheCultural and Scientific Center "Milutin Milanković" is located in Dalj. Committee for Education, Culture and Sport of Joint Council of Municipalities conducts activities aimed at fosteringSerbian and theSerbian Cyrillic alphabet, through preservation of memories of important individuals and events from the past ofSerbian state andethnic group.[72]

Culture

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The Joint Council of Municipalities organizes multiple cultural events:"Selu u pohode"(English: "Village Revisited"),"Međunarodni festival dečijeg folklora"(English: "International Festival of Child Folklore"),"Horsko duhovno veče"(English: "Choir Spiritual Night") and"Izložba likovnog stvaralaštva"(English: "The exhibition of fine art").Veteran Football League brings together 10 soccer clubs. The Council sponsors Chess Leagues and a Shooting League. The council also publishes a monthly magazineIzvor[3](English: "Source") and, in co-operation withRadio Television of Serbia andRadio Television of Vojvodina, it broadcasts twice per month a TV show named"Hronika Slavonije, Baranje i zapadnog Srema"(English: "Chronicle of Slavonia, Baranja and Western Syrmia").[56] New media project named srbi.hr[73] started in April 2018 in a form ofweb portal. JCm collaborates with local minority media such asRadio Borovo, and has a 25% stake inRadio Dunav in Vukovar[74] and educational institutions such asSerbian Orthodox Secondary School.[75]

On 23 May 2011, the Joint Council of Municipalities celebrated the "Day of the Joint Council of Municipalities". The day began by laying flowers on the grave of the first President of Council, Miloš Vojnović at a New cemetery inVukovar.[76][77] After that, in the hotel "Lav", a ceremony took place. Council President Dragan Crnogorac stated:

From this important date (i.e. the date of the establishment), Joint Council of Municipalities, as an internationally recognised institution in Croatia, works on preserving of rights and interests of the Serbs, their cultural and educational autonomy, Serbian traditions, customs, language, and the Cyrillic alphabet, but also works on reconstruction, development, and improvement of the entire life of all citizens and because of this it is respected and stable partner of the government and of all entities that are committed to these values.[78]

Gallery

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  • Trpinja Elementary School
    Trpinja Elementary School
  • Bobota Elementary School
    Bobota Elementary School
  • Monument in front of the school in Bobota
    Monument in front of the school inBobota

See also

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Further reading

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References

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