Lifestyle

May 30, 2022 - As the second anniversary of two lawsuits against TCN CEO Paul Bradbury approaches, the latest court hearing in Diary of a Croatian Lawsuit, a diary which will run and run and run.  One of the things that I have learned about being sued in Croatia is that it is very important to be in control of your calendar. This is true both for the lawyers and the defendant. Without proper control of the calendar, lawyers can double book appointments (not once, but twice) leading to a delay in the hearing. This is something we observed in…

May 30, 2022 - Croatian Statehood Day 2022 has been marked by the famous waterfall! Croatia celebrates Statehood Day on May 30, when the foundations of a modern Parliament were laid in 1990, confirming its historical role in preserving Croatian statehood. On this occasion, Niagara Falls shone in the colors of the Croatian flag, reports HRT. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken congratulated the Croatian people on Statehood Day on behalf of the United States of America. "The United States looks forward to further deepening relations with Croatia, strengthening trade and investment ties, strengthening energy security, tackling the climate crisis,…

ZAGREB, 29 May 2022 - As many as 86% of members of Generation Z in Croatia would rather go to a bank to conclude a contract on a loan than resort to the Internet banking for that purpose, it was said at a recent Digital Touchpoint conference in Zagreb. During the conference, organised by the ASEE and Payten companies, the findings of a survey conducted by the Ipsos pollster among 300 respondents were presented. Surprisingly, youngsters, who are growing up with the Internet, prefer going to a bank to conclude a contract on a loan. Generation Z (or Gen Z for short), colloquially also…

ZAGREB, 29 May 2022 - Over the past 12 months Croatians ordered more than 1.7 million burgers on Glovo, which makes Croatia one of the ten countries where Glovo operates with the largest number of burger orders, Glovo said this past Friday ahead of International Hamburger Day, 28 May. A total of 850,000 burgers were ordered by residents of Zagreb on Glovo in the past year. Zagreb is followed by Sisak, where 34% of orders on Glovo were burgers, and by Velika Gorica, Varaždin, Rijeka and Karlovac. Croatians most frequently order cheeseburgers, classic hamburgers and chicken burgers and they order them most often on Fridays…

May 29, 2022 - Among the growing number of foreigners relocating to Croatia, international students are increasingly visible. So who are these foreign students choosing Croatia, and why? In the fifth of a new series, we get the perspectives of life and study in Croatia through the eyes of its foreign students, continuing with Nirupam Kumar Mundra from India.  Among the many foreign tongues heard around the Croatian capital these days is the growing number of students choosing to do their graduate programmes in Croatia. A safe, affordable EU country, with a rapidly expanding programme of high-quality graduate courses in…

May the 29th, 2022 - The brand new DUBoak facility, a Malinska maritime heritage centre, has now opened its doors to the public and will showcase all that this area has to boast of when it comes to its rich maritime history and heritage. It's not exactly news to anyone that the Republic of Croatia as a whole has an enormous tie to the sea, with the Adriatic part of the country drawing a long and extremely rich history based on the depth of its relationship with it. From food to trade, transport and defense, these ties continue to bind…

May the 29th, 2022 - Three Dubrovnik-Neretva beaches are now more accessible to people with various forms of physical disabilities thanks to a new move within the wider MIMOSA project. As Morski writes, three Dubrovnik-Neretva beaches have now finally been properly and safely equipped with lifts for people with disabilities. They were procured as part of the praiseworthy MIMOSA project. From this summer season onwards, people with disabilities will be able to enter the sea on three more Dubrovnik-Neretva beaches more easily on the beaches in Orebic, Slano and in Molunat, which lies to the south of the city. Lifters…

ZAGREB, 28 May, 2022 -  President and Armed Forces Supreme Commander Zoran Milanović held a formal reception on the occasion of Croatian Armed Forces Day and said that the state and its leadership had to recognise the national interest, it had to be continuous and couldn't change from cycle to cycle. Over 30 years have passed and it's good to repeat some truths. You were young men then and stood up in the defence of your homeland without weapons, without the organisation the other side had, and Croatia armed itself without anyone's help, said Milanović, addressing representatives of the Croatian…

ZAGREB, 28 May, 2022 - About 25 same-sex couples in Croatia have children - about 15 lesbian couples with their own biological children and a dozen couples who have adopted, Saturday's Jutarnji List daily quoted Daniel Martinović, president of the Dugine obitelji (Rainbow Families) NGO, as saying. Since 2014, when the Life Partnership Act went into force, only three same-sex couples have applied for adoption and they have all been turned down, he said after the High Administrative Court ruled this week that all same-sex couples who are registered life partners have the same adoption rights as heterosexual couples. The court thus overruled the relevant…

ZAGREB, 28 May 2022 (Hina) - The Croatian Competition Agency (AZTN) on Friday okayed the intention of the implementation of concentration as a result of the takeover of RTL Croatia by CME Media. The AZTN finds that this is a horizontal concentration in the media market. CME is not present on the relevant markets in Croatia, and this concentration enables it to take over the RTL position, which will not change the structure of the market, says the regulator. In mid-February the PPF Group said that its CME Media Enterprises (CME) subsidiary had signed an agreement to acquire 100% of the RTL Croatia commercial…