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Saturday, 9 April 2022
CoE Commissioner: Those Responsible for Kramatorsk Atrocity Must be Held Accountable
ZAGREB, 9 April 2022 - Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Dunja Mijatović said on Friday those those responsible for serious violations of human rights, such as the attack in Kramatorsk, which could constitute a war crime under international humanitarian law, must be held to account. According to Ukrainian authorities, at least 50 people, including children, were killed on Friday while waiting at the railway station in Kramatorsk for evacuation to safer parts of Ukraine. "Those responsible for serious violations of human rights, such as the attack in Kramatorsk, must be held accountable. "Such attacks may also constitute war crimes under international…
Saturday, 9 April 2022
HOS 9th Battalion Marks 31st Anniversary in Split
ZAGREB, 9 April 2022 - The Croatian Defence Force (HOS) 9th Battalion on Saturday marked its 31st anniversary at a church and the Lora arena in the coastal city of Split, commemorating its 46 members killed in the 1991-95 Homeland War. Addressing a packed Lora arena, the president of the "HOS 9th Battalion" association, and the battalion's wartime commander, Marko Skejo, said, among other things, that members of the battalion had given a major contribution to Croatia's independence, ending his speech by shouting "For the homeland ready", to which the audience did the same. One of the battalion's wartime commanders, Mile…
Saturday, 9 April 2022
KHL Sisak Becomes Croatian Ice Hockey Champion!
April 9, 2022 - With a convincing 5:1 victory against KHL Zagreb in last night's fourth game of the Croatian Ice Hockey Championship finals, KHL Sisak took the Croatian champion title! With that, the 'Knights' of Sisak crowned their excellent season, which they played in the International Hockey League with Slovenian, Serbian, and Croatian clubs. In the playoffs after the IHL, Sisak showed that bringing in several experienced players, three quality American hockey players, and player and coach Luka Jarčov made for a memorable season. In the four final playoff games against Zagreb, Sisak secured their spot on the throne of…
Saturday, 9 April 2022
Meet Dario Gjergja, the Croatian Coach Leading Belgian Basketball
April 9, 2022 - TCN met Dario Gjergja, the coach of the award-winning basketball team Filou Ostende and also of the Belgian national basketball team. This Croat on top of Belgian basketball reaps success and has already won the Coach of the Year title 4 times! Dario Gjergia is a Croatian coach who has found a second home in Belgium. In recent years he has achieved excellent results: during 11 seasons as coach at Filou Ostende, he has already won 10 national basketball championships (with the 11th still ongoing), and since 2008, he is the coach of the Belgian national team, appointed until…
Saturday, 9 April 2022
Croatia Logs 903 New Coronavirus Cases, 15 Deaths
ZAGREB, 9 April 2022 - Croatia has recorded 903 new coronavirus cases and 15 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Saturday. Currently, there are 7,446 active cases in the country. Of them, 532 infected people are being treated in hospital, including 27 placed on ventilators, while 5,400 persons are self-isolating. Since 25 February 2020, when the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Croatia, 1,108,551 people have been registered as having been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, of whom 15,675 have died and 1,085,430 have recovered, including 1,482 in the last 24 hours. A…
Saturday, 9 April 2022
Three Children Killed, Seven Committed Suicide in Croatia in 2021
ZAGREB, 9 April 2022 - In Croatia last year, three children were killed, seven committed suicide and 63 attempted suicide, while 17 were killed in traffic, Children's Ombudsman Helenca Pirnat Dragičević said in her annual report, citing data from the Ministry of the Interior. "Apart from the parents, in certain cases responsibility for children's deaths also lies with the institutions and society in general," the ombudsman said. She added that social services and the judiciary should be faster and more efficient in decision making concerning children. In 2021, her office received 269 complaints about violence against or neglect of children, an increase…
Saturday, 9 April 2022
Croatian Construction Companies Need 20,000 More Workers for Reconstruction
ZAGREB, 9 April 2022 - Croatian construction companies are accumulating losses because of the continued rise in input costs and are wondering whether the situation will escalate to such an extent that they will no longer be able to operate. For the post-earthquake reconstruction of buildings alone, construction companies need about 20,000 more workers, who are nowhere in sight now. Hina asked construction companies and institutions how they saw the present situation in their sector, how they were coping with increased prices of material and fuel, whether they would be able to deliver on the contracts signed without incurring losses, and how…
Saturday, 9 April 2022
Croatia Getting Back to "Old Normal" After Two Years
ZAGREB, 9 April 2022 - Croatia is getting back to the old normal after nearly all restrictions imposed over the last two years to contain the COVID-19 pandemic were lifted at midnight on Friday. All the anti-epidemic rules, except the obligation of wearing protective face masks in health institutions and nursing homes, are no longer in force. Croatia declared the COVID-19 pandemic on 11 March 2020 and since then its citizens lived under various restrictions, including a total lockdown in the spring of that year. The first registered case of this infection in Croatia was reported on 25 February 2020.…
Saturday, 9 April 2022
Croatia Consumes More Vegetables Annually Than Any Other European Country
April 9, 2022 - According to statistics from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), and compiled in a map made by Landgeist, Croatia consumes more vegetables per capita in a year than any other country in Europe. Every day you learn something new about Croatia, and usually, they are things that you may never have imagined. When we talk about rankings, it is well known that Croatia is always among the first when it comes to the most beautiful countries in the world, the safest to walk at night, with the cleanest seas, among the best destinations…
Saturday, 9 April 2022
MSC Fantasia First MSC Cruiser to Sail into Dubrovnik Port in 2022
April the 9th, 2022 - Dubrovnik once had an enormous issue with cruise ships and hoards of day trippers steamrolling into the city, causing infrastructure issues and traffic jams. The pandemic changed all that, with the very first cruiser of 2022, MSC Fantasia, having arrived in the Pearl of the Adriatic on Thursday. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, MSC Fantasia, otherwise the first MSC vessel to arrive in the City of Dubrovnik this year, sailed into Dubrovnik's Port of Gruz on Thursday morning under the command of Captain Antonin Sammartan. This Fantasia class ship which can accommodate up to 4,300 passengers, will…
Saturday, 9 April 2022
Croatian Company Galeb to Make Military Underwear for Next 4 Years
April the 9th, 2022 - The Croatian company Galeb, based in the Central Dalmatian town of Omis well known for its textiles throughout the country and beyond, is set to make military under garments for the next four years. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Brnic writes, the Omis-based textile company Galeb will equip the Croatian Armed Forces with underwear for the next four years. At the tender of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Croatia which was opened at the end of last year, this Croatian enterprise was the only one to submit a binding offer for the job, and the…
