By MARGIT FEHER ZAGREB, Croatia—Traditional folk music and dancing along with a light show captured this city's main square, which was ringed with blue-and-gold European Union flags and Croatia's national standard, as the small Balkan country made its official, though bittersweet, midnight entry into Europe's club of democracies. It was a big step for Croatia, which emerged as an independent state from the bloody conflict that engulfed the Balkans in the 1990s as the former Yugoslavia disintegrated. The country worked for more than a decade to satisfy EU membership requirements. Enlarge Image Close...
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