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May the 22nd, 2022 - The German Lurssen Group has opened its Rijeka engineering centre, which will come very handy when it comes to the development of ideas and design. As Morski writes, the German Lurssen Group, which specialises in the design and production of luxury megayachts, has opened the doors of its brand new Rijeka engineering centre. It will develop ideas and design some of the most modern and expensive vessels in the world there, and after the Rijeka engineering centre, the German group has announced further investments. Since entering the Croatian market just a couple of years ago,…

ZAGREB, 21 May (Hina) - Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomašević has held talks with Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey on the margins of the conference "What is the green narrative?", and invited her to visit the Croatian capital. A delegation of the City of Zagreb, led by Tomašević, was on a two-day official visit to Berlin, the Zagreb city administration said on Saturday. Tomašević and Giffey discussed ways to deepen cooperation between the two cities, and the sustainable development and green policies they pursue, the city administration said. Emphasis was put on affordable housing, waste management, transport, notably bicycles as a mode of transport, public…

ZAGREB, 21 May, 2022 - Croatia has recorded 462 new coronavirus cases and seven COVID-related deaths in the past 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Saturday. Currently there are 3,440 active cases in the country, including 264 persons who are hospitalised and of whom six are on ventilators. Since the outbreak of the epidemic in Croatia, a total of 1,134,027 COVID cases have been registered and 15,961 people have died as a consequence. A total of 1,676 people are self-isolating. So far 4,856,461 people have been tested, including 2,524 in the past 24 hours. By Friday, 5,250,900 doses of a COVID vaccine had…

ZAGREB, 21 May, 2022 - Several thousand people gathered in Kumrovec, northern Croatia, on Saturday to celebrate the Day of Youth, which was a state holiday in former Yugoslavia that served to officially commemorate Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito's birthday, and which this year coincides with Tito's 130th birth anniversary. The traditional celebration in Tito's place of birth was organised by the Federation of "Josip Broz Tito" Associations of Croatia, Krapina-Zagorje County and Kumrovec municipality. When this many people gather, and they come from almost all parts of our former common state, it is justified to ask what it is that brings them…

Maya 21, 2022 - The 'maestro' of Croatia and Real Madrid will be the face of the SofaScore sports application.  Luka Modrić, captain of the Croatia national football team and superstar midfielder for Real Madrid, is becoming the face of the SofaScore sports application, reports Gol.hr.  "We have agreed on the best Croatian footballer, and negotiations for MMA and cricket are underway. We want every sport represented in the application to represent the best Croatian athlete. For some sports, such as cricket, it is difficult to find prominent Croatians, but we are trying to find the best local representative for…

May 21, 2022 - It was a great day for Croatia's doubles teams, as Nikola Mektić and Mate Pavić celebrated the Geneva Open doubles title, while Ivan Dodig and his American partner Austin Krajicek became Lyon Open champions! Croatian tennis players Nikola Mektić and Mate Pavić won the Geneva Open doubles title on Saturday, defeating Pablo Andujar Alba and Matwe Middelkoop 2-6, 6-2, 10-3 in the final. The Olympic winners reached their ninth consecutive victory after an hour and nine minutes of play and celebrated their 11th title since joining forces.  After losing the first set, Mektić and Pavić fought back…

May 21, 2022 - The renowned Croatian director Rajko Grlić writes in detail the secrets behind the camera of the remembered love scenes in his films ''You Love Only Once'' (1981) and ''The Border Post'' (2006). Rajko Grlić writes for Telegram.hr In the small inside pocket of a velvet jacket, I found a note that tries to answer the question I am most often asked: "How are love scenes filmed?" "Love scenes", which is a euphemism for those sweet-simple things that are not talked about out loud in good families, are not recorded easily or quickly. Moreover, these recordings are not overly pleasant…

ZAGREB, 21 May, 2022 - The Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) director Daniel Markić has said in an interview with the Večernji List daily that Russia has stepped up cyber attacks against Croatia, and the targets have mainly been ministries and the tax administration so as to steal sensitive information. Not only state institutions but also big companies have been targeted by cybercrime groups and state-sponsored groups, Markić was quoted by the Večernji List newspaper as saying on Saturday. He recalls that over the recent years, NATO and the European Union have started naming who is behind such cyber attacks. Considering the…

ZAGREB, 21 May, 2022 - The European Commission's "REPowerEU", which envisages that JANAF can become a strategically important oil pipeline and that the Krk LNG terminal should increase its capacities, creates great opportunities for Croatia as a future energy hub in this part of Europe, expert Igor Dekanić tells Hina. On 18 May, the Commission unveiled "REPowerEU" as its response to the hardships and global energy market disruption caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. On that occasion the EC said that "there is a double urgency to transform Europe's energy system: ending the EU's dependence on Russian fossil fuels, which are used as an economic…

ZAGREB, 21 May, 2022 - The former military underground air base at Željava at the border between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina will be repurposed as a motorsport race track, the Večernji List daily reported a few days ago. This September the facility will be used as a venue for a 402 Street Race contest for cars of +1500  horsepower. Croatian speed car driver Darko Konopek was quoted as saying that the Željava race track could make it possible for drivers to speed up to 500 kilometres per hour. The organiser of the 24-25 September race contest, Zlatko Ružić, said that the events during the…