Business

May 30, 2020 - The biggest Croatian entrepreneurs will come together for the Entrepreneurial Mindset for Students conference, which will be held on Tuesday, June 9, 2020, at 10 am. Poduzetnik.biz writes that when we talk about the future, it is extremely important that more and more educational institutions in our country put their focus on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial topics, but some things cannot be learned in school. Entrepreneurship, namely, is not only the ability to start a business, but also the skill of solving problems "on the go", the ability to properly communicate and delegate, as well as creative and…

As Novac writes on the 29th of May, 2020, the Ministry of Agriculture and HBOR have prepared a new financial instrument called ''working capital for rural development", for which 130 million kuna has been provided, and loans will be approved directly by HBOR, with an interest rate of 0.5 percent, while users will be exempt from having to pay all fees. This is a new programme for lending liquidity to farmers and processors of agricultural products and entities operating in the forestry sector whose business is being negatively affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the Ministry of Agriculture and the…

As Suzana Varosanec/Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 29th of May, 2020, the largest hotelier on the Crikvenica Riviera, Jadran is a company with a total of nine solid buildings in the hotel segment, and along with its bungalows and pavilions, boasts 2,500 beds. After the lockdown, they plan to raise their occupancy to the level of 600 to 700 beds by the end of June, ie to 25 percent of its hotel accommodation capacities. The first hotel guests are expected this weekend at the Esplanade Hotel in the very centre of Crikvenica. It is a boutique hotel with 27 rooms…

May 29, 2020 — Wine cellars in Croatia are hitting the bottom of the barrel as restaurant orders and guests fall because of the pandemic. The Croatian Chamber of Commerce said winemakers across the country saw sales plunge up to 80 percent in comparison to last year. Many expect some recovery throughout the rest of the year,  predicting a 60 percent drop for 2020. The cellars of žlahtina in Vrbnik, a dry white wine, and Pavlomir reported 90 percent drops in sales. Croatia’s tourism and wine industries are heavily intertwined, with 70 percent of wine sales happening during the tourist…

May 28, 2020 — Croatia’s retailers will return to normal Sunday operating hours this weekend. But unions claim the sudden return to normal ignores labor laws. The Croatian Association of Employers is aware the law requires workers to know their schedules a week ahead of time, but the group claims the extraordinary situation voids the rule, according to Jutarnji List. If they abide by the Labor Act, shops should be closed on Sunday, May 31. The law, the trade unionists warn, is clear: employers must deliver employees’ schedules at least seven days in advance. Since the Civil Protection Directorate revoked its ban on…

Novalja and its famous Zrce beach is one of Croatia's top destinations, but as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis that ensued, the area remains quiet and desolate for now. Novalja is without people, and Zrce is without its parties. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 28th of May, 2020, the owners of Novalja's apartments and hotels have prepared protective equipment, disinfectants, everything has been arranged, but there have been no reservations made. Only one guest from France contacted an agency that rents a hundred apartments on the popular island of Pag. Those who have…

ZAGREB, May 27, 2020 - The German government has made a donation of technical equipment valued at €85,000 to Croatia's Civil Protection in its efforts to deal with the consequences of the March 22 earthquake in Zagreb and its environs The donation has come from the German Technisches Hilfswerk (THW) civil protection organisation controlled by the German federal government and Germany's Ambassador to Croatia, Robert Klinke formally presented the donation to Assistant Interior Minister Dami Trut at the civil protection logistics centre in Jastrebarsko, on the outskirts of Zagreb. The equipment consists of ten light balloons and one hundred diesel heaters…

ZAGREB, May 27, 2020 - Health sector unions on Wednesday did not sign an annex to the collective agreement for public sector employees, expressing disappointment with the government's offer and noting that they had enabled the relaunching of the economy and the reopening of borders and were against the restriction of their rights. Considering the crisis caused by coronavirus pandemic, the government had proposed that the planned 2% base pay increases in June and October, and the holiday allowance for public and government sector employees be suspended. "Most public sector and government employees' unions have said that they will accept the government's…

ZAGREB, May 27, 2020 - Unions representing workers in the health and welfare sectors said on Wednesday, ahead of a meeting with government officials, that their members were against a government proposal for the suspension of planned base pay increases of 2% in June and October and of the holiday allowance. Renata Culinovic Caic of the HLS doctors' union told reporters that it was owing to the work of medical and social workers that the relaunching of tourism and economy after the crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic had been made possible and that given the circumstances, doctors could not accept…

In addition to EU cash for the Zadar business zone and an intelligent transport system, the University of Zadar also received a grant for the project of renovating the old Technical School. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 25th of May, 2020 on Monday, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković presented the mayor of Zadar, Branko Dukić, with four contracts for European Union projects worth a massive 135 million kuna in total, and pointed out that the City of Zadar has proven to be one of the most efficient in terms of using EU funds. This is a grant for the project…