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August the 14th, 2022 - If you need to get a new Croatian passport of ID card over the coming days in the City of Zagreb, then there's something you need to do before you head to the dreaded desks and the friendly and knowledgeable clerks at your local administrative police station. We've all had the masochistic pleasure of waiting for hours clutching a number that isn't due to come up on the screen we're all staring at for an age in an airless room listening to people being repeatedly told they're missing a document. MUP is a special place where…

August the 14th, 2022 - Zagreb's iconic blue trams and buses belonging to ZET (Zagreb electric tram) are set to undergo some much needed modernisation as Croatia finally begins properly entering the digital age. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, ZET recently presented a few novelties with which it plans to modernise passenger transport offered in the Croatian capital city on the whole. In the trams, they will install screens that will actually show the tram's route, how long it takes to get to the next station, as well as which other lines passengers can be transferred to. As part of the…

August the 14th, 2022 - Maersk has set up a Rijeka-Czech Republic service connecting this former industrial Northern Adriatic city and the town of Paskova in the Czech Republic. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the first direct freight, container and rail service from Rijeka to the Czech Republic has now been established, connecting the Port of Rijeka via the container terminal at Brajdica with the town of Paskova near Ostrava in the far east of the Czech Republic. Emmanuel Papagiannakis, executive director of Jadranska vrata, which manages the Brajdica terminal, emphasised that the Czech market is one of the most important…

August the 14th, 2022 - Is the Croatian socialist past responsible for the big wage gap between the country and other European Union member states which were never part of Yugoslavia? One Croatian Employment Service (HZZ) analysis says an emphatic yes. As Marija Brnic/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the growth of wages over the last year has been mostly attributed to the chronic lack of workers in Croatia, but calls are regularly heard from the ranks of Croatian businessmen to the government to undertake tax reforms and finally reduce the high burdens due to which workers' wages are low compared to other countries,…

ZAGREB, 13 August, 2022 - Croatia has registered 1,215 new COVID cases and 12 related deaths in the past 24 hours, the national COVID response team reported on Saturday. The number of active cases in the country currently stands at 7,747, of whom 607 are hospitalised and 26 of them are on ventilators, while 5,398 people are self-isolating. Since the beginning of the pandemic, a total of 1,200,113 COVID cases have been recorded in Croatia, and 16,484 patients have died as a consequence. To date, 68.84% of adults have been vaccinated.

ZAGREB, 12 August, 2022 - The Croatian Medical Chamber (HLK) appealed to media and citizens on Friday not to generalise about possible omissions in the medical treatment of reporter Vladimir Matijanić and aggressively accuse doctors and nurses, a vast majority of whom, it said, do their job responsibly. "We understand the concern and anger of Croatian citizens over this death, but inciting hate against doctors and other medical professionals can only have negative consequences for the entire society," the HLK said in a statement after the circumstances of the death of reporter Vladimir Matijanić, who died on 5 August as a consequence…

ZAGREB, 12 August, 2022 - Water restrictions in Istria have yielded results, and the situation is under control, the CEO of the state-owned Hrvatske Vode water management company, Zoran Đuroković, said on Friday, noting that water resources should be protected from pollution and calling for their sensible use. Speaking in an interview with the Nova TV broadcaster, Đuroković said that this year's drought had the most serious consequences in the regions where water consumption was the highest - in Istria and Istria County, where 300,000 tourists are currently staying. "The water restrictions have been complied with, and water consumption has been…

ZAGREB, 13 August, 2022 - A hot air balloon festival will be held by the River Drava in Prelog on September 2-4, and visitors will be able to enjoy balloon flights, an exhibition and lectures about the history and future of hot air balloon flying, the event's organisers said on Saturday. Ljubomir Kolarek, the mayor of the northern town of Prelog, said that more than 300 tethered rides will be organised for visitors. The organisers expect the event to feature 10-15 hot air balloons as well as pilots from the Czech Republic, Hungary, North Macedonia and Brazil. Speaking on behalf of the organisers, Igor Mikloušić…

August the 13th, 2022 - There have been some absolutely horrific stories about the state of the Croatian healthcare system of late, and so it might seem as if nothing within the four walls of a hospital can be trusted. While that is absolutely not true at all, it is more than understandable that people fear potential illness. Some good news is that HZZO will now foot the bill for a test that can be done in a private facility, without all of the long waiting times typically associated with busy, overworked state hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Magnetic resonance…

August the 13th, 2022 - The height of the scorching summer tourist season is now well and truly upon us, and with more and more foreign visitors entering the country either by air and then hiring cars, or by road through Croatia's many land borders, Croatian Motorways (HAC) has issued some advice to all those using the country's roads to head to their various destinations, usually on the coast. Yet another busy summer weekend is upon us, and with an absolutely tragic accident involving a bus recently, which took the lives of several individuals, Croatian Motorways has made sure to…