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ZAGREB, 23 Aug (Hina) - In its indictment against four Croatian Air Force pilots, charged with complicity in a war crime against civilians during Croatia's 1995 military operation "Storm", the Serbian judiciary also states grounds for its jurisdiction over the case, which Croatia has categorically challenged. The Zagreb office of the regional N1 broadcaster on Monday reported having obtained the Serbian indictment, a 26-page document issued on 31 March and upheld by the Belgrade Appeals Court in mid-August. Excerpts of the indictment state, among other things, that the indictees, "by violating rules of international law defined by the Geneva Conventions, ordered…

ZAGREB, 22 August, 2022 - All houses covered by the programme of non-structural reconstruction in the earthquake-affected areas of Petrinja and Glina should be renovated before the start of the heating season, with construction work currently underway on eight apartment buildings in Petrinja and four in Glina. The value of the reconstruction contracts is estimated at HRK 944 million, it was said at a meeting of the task force in charge of dealing with the consequences of the December 2020 earthquake in Sisak-Moslavina County. Gordan Hanžek of the Central State Office for Reconstruction and Housing said at the meeting that non-structural…

ZAGREB, 23 August, 2022 - The net assets of mandatory pension funds stood at HRK 132.3 billion at the end of July 2022, which is HRK 3.2 billion or 2.5% more than in the previous month, a monthly report by the Croatian Financial Services Supervisory Agency (HANFA) shows. In July, the downward trend in the value of the pension fund's net assets, which had lasted since April, ended. After a decrease of HRK 3.1 billion in February, in March, there was a partial recovery in assets with an increase of HRK 2.1 billion in the month, but a decrease was…

ZAGREB, 23 August, 2022 - Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure, Oleg Butković, said on Tuesday that the new Law on the Coastal Belt and Sea Ports would in no way privatise the coastal belt or prevent citizens from using the seaside and that there is no way that the law would enable any misuse of the coastal belt. "We have to adopt a law on the coastal belt and seaports by the end of the year for several reasons," said Butković, stating that it is a precondition to absorb money from the National Recovery and Resilience Program, adding that that…

ZAGREB, 23 August, 2022 - Commenting on potential pressure by new clients from the category of households on the city-owned GPZO gas distributor, Mayor Tomislav Tomašević said on Tuesday that not selling gas was not an option even though gas supplies for new clients had not been procured. "... we did not know that a large number of market suppliers would suddenly give up on gas business and that (new clients) would turn to the GPZO as a public supplier," the mayor told a news conference. GPZO supplying gas to close to 60% of Croatian households Commenting on a report in the Jutarnji…

ZAGREB, 23 August, 2022 - Croatia has registered 720 new cases of coronavirus infection in the past 24 hours and 16 related deaths, the national COVID response team reported on Tuesday. There are 5,515 active cases in the country, including 601 hospitalised patients, 20 of whom are on ventilators. Since the outbreak of COVID in Croatia on 25 February 2020 to date, a total of 1,207,353 cases of the novel coronavirus have been registered, and 16,595 people have died as a consequence, while 1,185,243 people have recovered., including 726 recoveries in the past 24 hours. There are currently 3,595 people self-isolating. To date, 59.59%…

August 23, 2022 - What happens when a teenage girl from Kazakhstan comes to Split? Meet Picigin, the sport that stopped her in her tracks.  As summer continues in great spirit and beaches around the Croatian coast are as active as ever, it is very likely that you will spot an indigenous game, ‘Picigin’ being played amongst locals. Having recently visited Split, it was a pleasant surprise to see several groups of people jumping around the shallow waters to keep a ball in play. Developing an interest in the game, I had explored multiple articles surfacing around the internet –…

August 22, 2022 - TCN is delighted to welcome Marko Lončar to the team. Marko will be adding a little historical perspective, starting with a look at Split under French Administration at the turn of the 19th Century.  “Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.” Napoleon Bonaparte In the wake of the French revolution, revolutionary ideas of liberty, freedom, and equality were spreading over Europe like wildfire. Napoleon, in his war campaigns, made sure that these new values be implemented in the conquered regions and for the benefit of the people so as to set…

August the 23rd, 2022 - What exactly does the new proposal for the Law on Maritime Property bring with it? There are some concerning items to be aware of, and Otoci.eu/Islands.eu has a message for the powers that be. As Andrea Beader/Otoci.eu writes, does the new proposal of the Law on Maritime Property and Sea Ports bring us any restrictions or the fencing off of sea beaches to the public? Reviewing the new proposal of the Law on Maritime Property and Sea Ports, we were taken aback by the proposed items that explicitly enable the limitation of the general use…

August the 23rd, 2022 - Could the Croatian hemp growing industry boost the overall economic picture? Many believe so, but there are many obstacles to anything being made easy, such is Croatia. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, it has been estimated that the value of the industrial hemp market across Europe should be almost nine billion US dollars by the year 2027. In Croatia, there are numerous organisations that deal with the cultivation and distribution of this particular plant, but they also encounter numerous problems, Dnevnik.hr writes. Industrial hemp (Cannabis Sativa L.) is a plant from the cannabis family that contains 0.2…