Glory gone as Croatia's oldest shipyard closes

The smell of machine oil and scrap metal lingers in the musty workshops of the Kraljevica dock, the only reminder of the glory of Croatia's oldest shipyard. That, and two nearly finished boats that may never be completed.

The workers, in gray or blue overalls, shuffle around, smoking and talking. Most of the machinery is at least 50 years old and unmanned.

From time to time, someone spots the cameras and microphones of visiting reporters and shouts a curse against the faraway officials who are sending the shipyard into bankruptcy to comply with European Union competition rules.