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ZAGREB, 17 July 2022 - Croatia has registered 979 new coronavirus cases and nine COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, according to the data released by the national COVID-19 crisis management team on Sunday. There are 9,761 active cases, including 490 hospitalized patients, 20 of whom are on ventilators, while 4,928 persons are self-isolating. In the last 24 hours, 2,993 persons have tested for coronavirus, and one in three has been positive. There have been 1,262 recoveries. Until 16 July, 2,316,018 persons received at least one shot of the vaccination against this infectious disease. The infection has taken 16,156 lives to…

ZAGREB, 17 July  2022 - The ceremony of opening the 69th edition of the Pula Film Festival took place in the city's landmark "Arena" on Saturday evening, with Croatian President Zoran Milanović addressing the event. The festival will run through 24 July and Croatian Programme includes 10 films, while International Programme has 11 films. President Milanović said that "this is a Croatian film festival." "We are a small, open country and a small nation and we cannot but look towards the world. It is not good for us to be introverted," Milanović said praising the inclusion of international filmmakers and…

July 17, 2022 - A superb addition to the Croatian co-working scene, as Croatia's first-ever cowork, Impact Hub Zagreb back in 2013, reopens in a fantastic location much loved by Croatian film lovers.  One of the things I have learned in my time in Croatia is just to go with the flow. Attending events these days always leads to an interesting conversation or two, and so it proved with the recent G2 diaspora conference, DiWine Summer. Among the many participants in an international gathering of 16 nationalities was the happiest Mexican I know in Croatia - Hermes Arriaga, co-founder of…

July 17, 2022 - As has become the norm every year, the City of Split celebrated pride around its old town. The 11th Split Pride parade brought together dozens of people of all ages to show their support for the LGBTQ+ community. As is customary year after year, the city of Split celebrated Pride and Total Croatia News was there to record the festivities. Yesterday the streets of Split were filled with music and smiles, with dozens of people marching together with flags and banners, showing their unconditional support for the LGBTQ+ community. The high temperatures were not an obstacle, and…

July the 17th, 2022 - Belje has won two gold medals for its much loved Slavonian delicacies, shining a well-earned and very much deserved spotlight on the products from the often wrongly overlooked Eastern Croatia. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, at the Faculty of Agrobiotechnical Sciences in the City of Osijek, the very first kulen quality assessment was held in the organisation of this scientific institution, which is a long-term partner of both small family farms (OPGs) and large producers in the standardisation and improvement of kulen production. Kulen is just one of the many Slavonian delicacies which has been winning…

July the 17th, 2022 - All hands are firmly on deck with employees having to work hard in three shifts to make sure the new Croatian euro coins are going to be ready by the end of this year for the official introduction on the first day of 2023. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the governor of the Croatian National Bank (CNB), Boris Vujcic, recently said that the current crisis we're in due to rising inflation and the ongoing war in Ukraine best illustrates the advantage of the Republic of Croatia finally joining the Eurozone. "The markets already know this, they know…

July the 17th, 2022 - The Croatian Adriatic is now totally covered in the sense of measuring by meterological-oceanographic buoys, from up north in Kvarner, all the way down to the extreme south of Dalmatia in Molunat (Konavle). As Morski writes, the final (more precisely the fifth) meteorological-oceanographic buoy from the State Hydrometeorological Institute (DHMZ) was placed recently at a location near the Blitvenica lighthouse, not far from the island of Zirje in the Sibenik archipelago. This completes the construction of the state network of meteorological-oceanographic buoys in the Croatian Adriatic, which represents an important segment of the DHMZ's strategic project…

July the 17th, 2022 - With terrible wildfires raging around the Sibenik area, Istrian firefighters have stepped up their game in informing people about fires and how to avoid causing them at the border crossing. As Morski writes, Istrian firefighters, more specifically members of the Umag public fire department, where busy handing out educational leaflets warning tourists entering the Republic of Croatia about the dangers of fires on Saturday morning at the Plovanija border crossing with neighbouring Slovenia. ''Over the last few days, we have unfortunately witnessed large fires in the wider Istria County area, which, thanks to the quick reaction…

July 17, 2022 - Twenty years a foreigner in Croatia. Part 9 of 20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years - the realities of life in the region, dealing with online trolls.  There is no feeling quite like coming home from the pub, logging on, and then finding your name being trashed on the Internet by a number of people on an online forum.  It happened to me for the first - but certainly not the last - time back in early 2004 when I was running a real estate business on Hvar. There was only one real place…

ZAGREB, 16 July 2022 - Croatia will keep insisting that Serbia starts implementing the 2005 bilateral agreement on the protection of respective minorities, Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman said in his message on Twitter on Saturday. Extending his best wishes to the Democratic Alliance of Croats in Vojvodina (DSHV) on its 32nd anniversary, the FM tweeted that Croatia's government would continue intensified cooperation with Croatian political representatives and the DSHV in Serbia. We will continue offering "political and material support to the ethnic Croat community in Serbia and its efforts to preserve its ethnic identity and rich cultural tradition and…