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July 4, 2022 - It had been rumored for days, and now Olympique Marseille has officially confirmed Igor Tudor as the club's new coach. The Croatian coach signed a contract with the former European champion for two years. The former head of Hajduk will sit on the bench of the French club after Croatia, Greece, Turkey, and Italy. Last season, Tudor successfully led Hellas Verona, and those results attracted one of the biggest French clubs ever and a great rival to PSG. Tudor boasts over 50 caps for the Croatia national team and at the club level, he spent most of his…

July 4, 2022 - The Croatia women's handball team advanced to the Mediterranean Games final in Oran after defeating Serbia 31-20 (16-12) in the semi-final match. The Croatia women's handball team is in the Mediterranean Games final in Oran! They defeated Serbia, a favorite in the tournament, by 11 goals. Croatia opened the game well and Tena Petika scored for 2:0, which gave Croatia security. For the majority of the first half, Serbia went for goals, but in the 15th minute, Croatia took the lead again. Katarina Pavlović lifted Croatia to +3 in the 20th minute and in the 28th Croatia…

ZAGREB, 4 July 2022 - Croatia has registered 57 new coronavirus cases and three related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Monday. The number of active cases now stands at 5,498, including 297 infected persons who are being treated in hospital, of whom seven are placed on ventilators, while 2,561 people are self-isolating. Since 25 February 2020, when the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in the country, 1,151,523 people have been registered as having contracted the novel virus, of whom 16,082 have died and 1,129,943 have recovered, including 892 in the last 24 hours.…

July 4, 2022 - Croatia will face the USA and two yet-to-be-revealed African teams in the 2023 Handball World Cup group stage in January.  Croatia will play in Group G, and its opponents will be the United States of America and two African national teams - the champion and the third-placed team from the championship there, which will be held in July. Coach Hrvoje Horvat spoke about the interesting draw:  "We wanted to avoid the European teams from the third and fourth pot, and let me remind you that Hungary, Serbia, Slovenia, and the Netherlands were there, and we succeeded.…

ZAGREB, 4 July 2022 - A total of 433 foreign police officers from nine countries will be helping their Croatian colleagues in Split-Dalmatia County as part of the Safe Tourist Destination project, launched in 2008. Their role will be to help in communication between Croatian police and foreign nationals to ensure a more pleasant stay for foreign visitors and foster a sense of safety among them, Split-Dalmatia County police chief Slobodan Marendić told a press conference on Monday. The foreign police officers will be on duty in Split, Trogir, Omiš, Makarska, and at the airport and maritime police stations. They…

ZAGREB, 4 July 2022 - An exhibition of contemporary drawing, featuring 70 American and Croatian artists, opens at two venues in the southern coastal city of Split on Tuesday – the Gallery of the Multimedia Culture Centre and the Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition, entitled "DRAW – What Is Contemporary Drawing and What Can It All Be?", is curated by Tomas Vu, Brian Novatny, Stipan Tadić and Marija Stipišić Vuković. ​The project was initiated by Tomas Vu, a visual artist, professor, and artistic director at the LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies at Columbia University in New York. It…

July 4, 2022 - The eighth MEETING G2 (https://meeting-g2.com/​) conference entitled "DIWINE SUMMER" will be held in Zagreb tomorrow, focusing on business connections between the homeland and the Croatian diaspora. The goal of the conference is to connect winemakers of Croatian origin from all over the world, but also the other business people who want to cooperate with the diaspora, regardless of the business sector in which they work. Some of the best Croatian winemakers from all over the world will gather live and virtually in the premises of the Croatian Heritage Foundation (https://matis.hr/). Meeting G2 is happy and honored…

July 2, 2022 - We're going to take a look at the destinations you can visit by ferry from the main Croatian ports. In this fifth installment of our Croatia Ferry Guide 2022, where to go from the port of Zadar? When advertising the Adriatic Sea and the Croatian islands abroad, the experience of being on board a sailboat, yacht, or catamaran is usually highlighted. However, there is no destination a Croatian ferry can't reach, and why not mention that it's totally worth saving a good amount of euros on sailboat rentals and crews? Today we tell you more about…

July the 4th, 2022 - Croatian Eurozone accession is looming, with the date on which the kuna will be sent to the history books being marked out as the 1st of January, 2023. There are a lot of practical and logistical issues to now tackle, and filling the country's ATMs with euros instead of kuna is just one of them proving to be a challenge. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, rapidly approaching Croatian Eurozone accession requires very many adjustments. While there won't be much work in the conversion of cashless payments, cash payments bring a series of challenges for everyone - from…

July 4, 2022 - The latest flight news to Croatia as Iberia Croatia flights are boosted from Madrid to Zagreb, Split, and Dubrovnik, running daily by the end of the month!  Spanish airline and OneWorld alliance member Iberia has increased the number of flights to Croatian airports this month, reports Croatian Aviation.  Compared to June, Iberia offers a greater number of weekly operations to three Croatian airports from its main hub in Madrid this month. Namely, Iberia will increase the number of operations to Split and Dubrovnik at the end of July, and for now, daily flights to these two…