• 20.02.2024.
• Zagreb, HR

Robert Badinter passed away

Robert Badinter, French lawyer, scientist and politician, honorary doctor of the University of Zagreb and corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, passed away on Friday, February 9, 2024 at the age of 96. Badinter chaired the Arbitration Commission of the Peace Conference on Yugoslavia, which concluded in 1991 that the SFRY was in the process of disintegration, on the basis of which, on January 15, 1992, the countries of the European Union recognized the state independence of Croatia and Slovenia within the existing borders. We published his biographical novel Idiss in 2022.