The weather is amazing today. May in February. The outdoor cafés in the pedestrian area of central Zagreb are packed. Many a T-shirt can be seen in the milling crowd. Although a couple of brushes with winter are still ahead, the balmy weather is here for a while. Among the misgivings of cloudless skies and high temperatures are the beggars. They are all over the place. To my surprise, I see most of them for the first time. The new poor, as it were. The way things are going in Croatia, which is sinking ever deeper into poverty, there will surely be many more of them by May. Real May, that is. Only the weather remains a mystery, for we had November in May last year. By now, the beggars know it, too. They are doing their best while the weather permits.