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April 8, 2022 - The City of Split announced a brand new electronic music festival this summer led by Alda Croatia and Insomniac, which will bring leading names in the electronic and international music scene to the Žnjan area of the city.  Big music projects were announced to the public today by the largest international production company, Alda, and the organizer of major world events, Insomniac, which will take place this summer on the Adriatic, specifically in Pula and Split. According to the organizers, over 150,000 visitors from around the world are expected in the Adriatic thanks to these events,…

ZAGREB, 8 April (2022) - Split Mayor Ivica Puljak and his deputies Bojan Ivošević and Antonio Kuzmanić formally tendered their resignations on Friday, thus leaving their offices. Puljak, Ivošević and Kuzmanić resigned after local prosecutorial authorities indicted Ivošević for threatening an editor at the Split-based Slobodna Dalmacija daily, Nikolina Lulić. Puljak had come under harsh criticism from other politicians and media for not distancing himself from Ivošević even after he was indicted. Instead, he took many by surprise by opting to stand by his first deputy and go with him and his second deputy, Antonio Kuzmanić, to a snap election. "To…

ZAGREB, 8 April (2022) - Croatia has recorded 1,091 new coronavirus cases and eight COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Friday. Currently, there are 8,040 active cases in the country. Of them, 564 infected people are being treated in hospital, including 28 placed on ventilators, while 5,280 persons are self-isolating. Since 25 February 2020, when the first COVID-19 case was confirmed in Croatia, 1,107,648 people have been registered as having been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, of whom 15,660 have died and 1,083,948 have recovered, including 1,684 in the last 24 hours.…

ZAGREB, 8 April (2022) - The government on Friday rejected the unions' proposal to increase base pay for public sector workers by 4 per cent as of 1 April, and the unions demanded that Prime Minister Andrej Plenković join in the negotiations by next Wednesday. The government stood by its proposal that base pay could not be increased by more than 2 per cent, Preporod Union leader Željko Stipić told the press after the meeting. The unions want the prime minister to join in the efforts to resolve this issue, arguing that the amount of money in question was not…

ZAGREB, 8 April (2022) - BAT Group is continuing its investment cycle in the Kanfanar factory with an additional HRK 400 million (€53 million) to be invested in new categories of tobacco products, which confirms its status of a leading private foreign investor in Croatia, company officials said on Friday. BAT Adria director-general Zvonko Kolobara said the new investment built on last year's HRK 200 million (€27 million) investment in new production lines for heated tobacco products. Kolobara said the new investment would require new hiring but he could not specify how many new workers would be employed. Speaking of the black market, he…

April 8, 2022 - After the overwhelming success of the debut last year, Amnesia is heading back to Zrće Beach on Pag Island from Sunday, May 30 to Thursday, June 2, 2022. The world-famous club will raise the bar as it brings an authentic Ibiza experience to the hedonistic Zrće Beach with a multi-stage event and an international line-up of DJ talent from across the house and techno spectrum as well as boat parties, after-parties, and plenty of day time water sports, and high octane activities plus onsite Glamping. The 2022 edition kicks off with a hell of a warm-up party…

April 9, 2022 – Numerous social and demographic measures and activities carried out in the city’s institutions have been recognized at the European level. Koprivnica Mayor Mišel Jakšić announces the European Capital of Inclusion and Diversity Award.  Last week, as Lokalni.hr writes, Koprivnica received great news from the European Union capital, Brussels: confirmation of entry among the 23 finalist cities in the run for the European Capital of Inclusion and Diversity Award. As many as seven Spanish cities entered the final for this important award, including Barcelona and Bilbao; four cities from Germany (Cologne, Mannheim), three from Italy (Bologna), two from…

April 8, 2022 - Minister of the Sea, Transport, and Infrastructure Oleg Butković spoke for HRT about major transport infrastructure projects in Croatia that are underway and plans for the future. He especially commented on the Pelješac Bridge and the Omiš bypass. "We do not have the exact date of the Pelješac Bridge opening yet, but everything is going well. The bridge is finished, and we are now concentrating on the access roads. As for the bridge itself, the procedure is more about documentation, and access roads are being worked on in a hurry. We expect the opening of the Pelješac…

April the 8th, 2022 - The old Zadar Maraska building which is so very well known in that ancient Dalmatian city will soon take on an entirely different look as its transformation into a brand new Hyatt Regency hotel has allegedly begun. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, work has finally begun on the construction of the Hyatt Regency hotel in the old Zadar Maraska building, as reported by the local Zadarski portal. All appears to be going to plan if we're to look at the fact that it was announced by the regional director of Dogus Croatia, Burak Baykan last October…

April the 8th, 2022 - Cavtat's Hotel Supetar is set to be transformed into a small boutique hotel under the Adriatic Luxury Hotels (ALH) brand. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, this summer, Adriatic Luxury Hotels (ALH) will bring a hotel brand in the segment of small luxury boutique hotels to Croatia's southernmost town, under which the newly renovated Hotel Supetar will operate. The investment worth almost two million kuna per room includes a thorough renovation of Hotel Supetar, which had three stars before its reconstruction, but is located in a top location in Cavtat. The hotel will join the luxury…