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ZAGREB, 9 July, 2022 - Transport and Infrastructure Minister Oleg Butković will be the new Deputy Prime Minister for Economy, and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković will propose his appointment to the parliament next week, the government confirmed on Friday. "The Prime Minister has decided that the new Deputy Prime Minister for the Economy will be Oleg Butković, and he will make this proposal to MPs next week," the government's spokesman Marko Milić told Hina. Butković's nomination and appointment follows after Finance Minister Zdravko Marić, who was also a Deputy Prime Minister, stepped down at his own request. Prime Minister Plenković will also table the candidacy…

July 9, 2022 - In the Wimbledon Juniors final, Mili Poljičak will play against American Michael Zheng, who beat Spaniard Martin Landaluce in the semi-final match.  Croatian tennis player Mili Poljičak advanced to the Wimbledon final in the junior competition, defeating Spaniard Pablo Rodenas 7-5, 6-2 in the semi-final match on Friday!  The young Split tennis player, who will turn 18 in less than a week, dominated almost the entire match against Rodenas. In the first set, he led 4-1 and had a break point for a 5-1 lead, but then came the only crisis period in the match for the…

July 9, 2022 - Ultra Europe returned to Split on Friday after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic. TCN was live from Park Mladeži on night one and caught up with US-based musical duo Sofi Tukker ahead of their first Ultra mainstage performance and Croatia debut.  It's no surprise that Ultra Europe organizer Joe Bašić is thrilled that one of the world's largest electronic music festivals is back and better than ever in the Dalmatian capital.  "We are back where we were before and are even better. I'm getting comments from all over that Ultra Europe is stronger than ever. The most important…

ZAGREB, 8 July 2022 - Real estate prices in the European Union and the euro area in Q1 2022 saw the highest increase in more than 15 years, and in Croatia their growth was above the European average, a report by the European statistical office has shown on Friday. In Q1 2022, real estate prices in the EU rose by 10.5% year-on-year, the largest increase since the end of 2006. At the end of 2021, they went up by 10.1%. In the euro area, real estate prices rose by 9.8% in Q1 2022, which is the largest increase since 2005,…

ZAGREB, 8 July 2022 - A Bosnia and Herzegovina-Croatia cross-border conference was held on Friday in Osijek on how to enhance the regional cooperation of Croats from Bosnia and Herzegovina with Croatia. This is a project aimed at improving regional cooperation and exchange of experiences in the implementation of cross-border projects, which the Development Agency in Žepče, central Bosnia, is implementing in partnership with the County Development Agency of Osijek-Baranja County and 11 local self-governments in Bosnia and Herzegovina areas predominantly populated by Croats. The director of the Žepče Development Agency, Branka Janko, underscored that the agency has been operating…

ZAGREB, 8 July 2022 - In the past 24 hours, 1,349 new cases of the SARS-CoV-2 virus infection were recorded in Croatia, and five COVID patients have died, the national COVID response team reported on Friday. The number of active cases on Friday was 8,220. Among them, there were 339 patients receiving hospital treatment, of whom 12 patients are on ventilators. There are currently 4,347 people in self-isolation. To date, a total of 4,965,512 tests have been conducted, including 3,942 in the last 24 hours. To date, 1,156,932 cases of COVID have been diagnosed and 16,101 COVID patients have died,…

ZAGREB, 8 July 2022 - On the occasion of National Nikola Tesla Day - the day of science, technology and innovation, observed on 10 July, President Zoran Milanović received scientists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute on Friday, who presented the results of research on the impact of microplastics in aquatic ecosystems. Researchers from the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI), the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of Graz and a PhD student from the Institute of Physics in Zagreb presented their innovative research, the President's Office said in a press release. The results obtained by studying the interactions of microplastic…

ZAGREB, 8 July 2022 - The Sabor adopted the Law on Cultural Councils and Financing Public Needs in Culture on Friday by a majority vote. The law regulates the financing of public needs in culture, the allocation of premises for cultural and artistic activities, the establishment and role of cultural councils and the work of the national council for culture, as well as the issue of decision-making on financial resources. The law is aimed at improving, simplifying and organising the system more efficiently and enabling multi-annual financing. Ahead of the vote, Miroslav Škoro (For a Just Croatia) reiterated that the…

ZAGREB, 8 July 2022- In June 2022, industrial producer prices jumped 24% on the year, going up for the 16th consecutive month, which was the highest increase since 2011, according to the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. In March 2021, producer prices were up 3.5% year on year, last December the increase was 16%, followed by 17.1% in January, 17.2% in February, 19.5% in March, 21.9% in April and 23.7% in May. The increase in producer prices was in large part due to energy prices. With the exclusion of energy, industrial producer prices in June 2022 were 0.7% higher on the…

ZAGREB, 8 July 2022 - Croatia has officially started negotiations on joining the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman said on Friday. "I wish to announce that at the meeting with Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development Deputy Secretary-General Ulrik Vestergaard Knudsen, we officially started the negotiations," said Grlić Radman, who participated in the meeting between Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and Knudsen in Government House. "This is a historic moment for us today... after joining the Schengen Area, after joining the euro area, this will really be the 'icing on the cake," he said…