Former Croatia PM Racan dies of cancer

ZAGREB, Apr 29 (Reuters) Croatia's former prime minister Ivica Racan, who allowed first free elections in 1990 and later set the country on the road towards European Union membership, died of cancer today.

Racan died in hospital at the age of 63, his Social Democratic Party (SDP) said in a statement, after kidney cancer discovered in February spread to his brain.

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