Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Hrvoje Šarinić (born 17 February 1935) is a Croatian politician.Šarinić was born in Sušak, Rijeka and graduated from the University of Zagreb then-Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy.Šarinić had a business career in Paris, France. He is a dual citizen of both Croatia and of France, as he spent 25 years in France. After the first democratic elections in Croatia, he joined the government of Franjo Tuđman and became head of his personal office.After the parliamentary elections of 1992 he, as member of Croatian Democratic Union, was appointed to the post of prime minister.His cabinet, like all in Tudjman years, was less concerned with foreign policy and war and more with domestic issues. One of those issues was privatisation of state-owned companies. During his time many of the most controversial events of that process took place, including the now infamous takeover of Slobodna Dalmacija in early 1993.By that time Croatian economy continued to decline, Šarinić himself became immensely unpopular and even his native Primorje-Gorski Kotar County rejected HDZ at local elections in February 1993. All that, together with escalating war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, led Tudjman to replace him with Nikica Valentić.Šarinić was not demoted, however. He continued to serve as Tudjman's close advisor and was, for a while, head of Croatian security services.He remained in public spotlight because of his diplomatic missions and frequent negotiations with Slobodan Milošević. After one of those missions he created great deal of controversy by claiming that one of the results of former Yugoslav wars should be "little Greater Serbia".In 1995, he was the government's official representative in the Erdut Agreement.By the end of 1990s, he was gradually pushed from Tudjman's inner circle.. }
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- Hrvoje_Šarinić abstract "Hrvoje Šarinić (born 17 February 1935) is a Croatian politician.Šarinić was born in Sušak, Rijeka and graduated from the University of Zagreb then-Faculty of Architecture, Construction and Geodesy.Šarinić had a business career in Paris, France. He is a dual citizen of both Croatia and of France, as he spent 25 years in France. After the first democratic elections in Croatia, he joined the government of Franjo Tuđman and became head of his personal office.After the parliamentary elections of 1992 he, as member of Croatian Democratic Union, was appointed to the post of prime minister.His cabinet, like all in Tudjman years, was less concerned with foreign policy and war and more with domestic issues. One of those issues was privatisation of state-owned companies. During his time many of the most controversial events of that process took place, including the now infamous takeover of Slobodna Dalmacija in early 1993.By that time Croatian economy continued to decline, Šarinić himself became immensely unpopular and even his native Primorje-Gorski Kotar County rejected HDZ at local elections in February 1993. All that, together with escalating war in Bosnia-Herzegovina, led Tudjman to replace him with Nikica Valentić.Šarinić was not demoted, however. He continued to serve as Tudjman's close advisor and was, for a while, head of Croatian security services.He remained in public spotlight because of his diplomatic missions and frequent negotiations with Slobodan Milošević. After one of those missions he created great deal of controversy by claiming that one of the results of former Yugoslav wars should be "little Greater Serbia".In 1995, he was the government's official representative in the Erdut Agreement.By the end of 1990s, he was gradually pushed from Tudjman's inner circle.".