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July 11, 2022 - Manuel Neuer's Dalmatia holiday continued in Dubrovnik, where the famous footballer was spotted wearing a Hajduk goalkeeper jersey with an Ožujsko in hand at a famous Elaphiti islands restaurant.  Last week, famous German goalkeeper Manuel Neuer decided to start his pre-season preparations before rejoining his club and embarked on the adventure of a lifetime, cycling from Germany to Croatia. "My kind of pre-season before pre-season! Nice guys and a bike ride to Croatia! Let‘s goooo!" Neuer captioned his Instagram post last Thursday.  Manuel Neuer has never hidden his love for Croatia, which has become his go-to…

July 11, 2022 - The latest flight news to Croatia as Trade Air domestic lines are delayed further until August 1, and Ryanair plans to restore its Zagreb network after months of flight reductions and suspensions.  Croatian private airline Trade Air has once again postponed its domestic PSO lines, which was previously announced on July 18, reports Croatian Aviation.  As stated in the announcement on the airline's official website, Trade Air is once again postponing the start of operations on domestic PSO lines. The mentioned lines have been suspended since May, and the beginning of operations was first announced for…

July 11, 2022 - Twenty years a foreigner in Croatia. Part 3 of 20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years - meet the bureaucracy and mindset double act.  I am a child of the Soviet Union.  No, this is not some revelation that I have been leading a double life all these years, more an explanation that my exposure to the socialist/communist bureaucratic mentality started more than 30 years ago with my first forays into Eastern Europe before the Berlin Wall came down and then a summer in Moscow when the Soviet Union was still a thing.  And therefore,…

July the 11th, 2022 - The Croatian companies Infobip, Koncar and Tehnix received special recognition at the recently held 17th edition of the Croatian exporters' convention. As Mladen Miletic/Poslovni Dnevnik writes, at the recently held 17th convention of Croatian exporters, in addition to awards in 19 different categories, awards were also given for achievements and contributions in the digital transformation and green transition of Croatian companies. This special award was given on the occasion of the fifteenth anniversary of the "Golden Key/Zlatni kljuc" award, and it was won by three companies: INFOBIP d.o.o., KONCAR - Elektricna vozila d.d. and TEHNIX d.o.o.…

July the 11th, 2022 - The famous Zagreb attraction which draws crowds from all over each and every year, the Museum of Illusions, is set to move its headquarters across the pond to the USA. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Ana Blaskovic writes, the City of Zagreb's much loved Museum of Illusions, a Croatian creation that received an additional spring in its step in terms of global expansion with the entry of the venture capital fund Invera Equity Partners, is moving its headquarters across the Atlantic Ocean to the USA. Although in the business of selling (optical) illusions according to a successful museum-style formula,…

July the 11th, 2022 - Croatian history is turbulent, often violent, and is as rugged as the landscape itself. But wars, changes of state and changes of often rather brutal regime aside, it's also absolutely full of strange little stories like this one. Did you know that Pirovac was called Zloselo (which literally translates to evil village) until 1930? As Morski/Ivo Glavas writes, When looking at how Pirovac was once referred to back in April 1930, you might find yourself raising an eyebrow or two... "As is known, recently, at the request of the village of Zloselo in the Municipality…

July the 11th, 2022 - Jarun divers recently recovered a disgraceful 700kg of rubbish from the bottom of this popular central Zagreb lake as part of a wider environmental action - Think Green. As Morski writes, a recently held environmental action Think Green/Misli Zeleno has had significant and positive effects on the community, working to further raise the public's general levels of awareness of the importance of environmental protection and the relationship between man and nature. This was the joint conclusion of all the participants of the 27th edition of the project organised by the Diving Club to clean the sea…

ZAGREB, 10 July 2022 -  In the past 24 hours, 757 new cases of the SARS-CoV-2 virus infection have been diagnosed in Croatia, and another four COVID patients have died, bringing the COVID-related death toll to 16,107, the national COVID response team reported on Sunday. Currently, there are 8,287 active cases, including 369 hospitalised patients, 13 of whom are on ventilators. Since the first registered case of infection with the novel virus in Croatia on 25 February 2020, the country has reported 1,159,177  cases of this infectious disease. There have been 1,134,783 recoveries, including 1,043 in the last 24 hours. Nearly 71% of…

ZAGREB, 10 July 2022 - Culture Minister Nina Obuljen Koržinek said on Sunday that the meaning of the word "Libertas" (freedom), which is the motto of the 73rd Dubrovnik Summer Festival, was entwined in the aesthetics and spirit of the festival. Addressing the special ceremony of the festival's council just before the ceremony of the opening of "Dubrovačke Ljetne Igre" on Sunday evening, the Croatian minister said that the Hymn to Liberty.would be listened to with special emotions and with the thoughts about the developments in Ukraine and Europe. The 73rd Dubrovnik Summer Festival will open on Sunday, 10 July…

ZAGREB, 10 July 2022 - An action plan for construction and demolition waste is to be adopted in the autumn, and this has been chosen as a priority for efforts to switch to the circular economy, the head of the sustainable waste management department in Croatia's economy ministry says in an interview with Hina. The official Sanja Radović has told Hina in the interview published on Sunday that the preparation of the five-year action plan for the circular economy has been supported by the World Bank. Recently, a committee for the circular economy has been set up. According to Radović, as much as 70% of…