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March the 22nd, 2022 - Former Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has claimed that she and Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is currently waging an unjustified and utterly bizarre war on neighbouring Ukraine, would ''talk for hours''. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the former Norwegian Prime Minister will leave his position in the Defense Alliance next autumn after serving a period of eight years and become the governor of the Norwegian Central Bank, and it is speculated that he will be succeeded by a woman from an Eastern European country. Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic didn't want to comment on a possible new position in…

March the 22nd, 2022 - Croatian exchange offices have been seeing a bit more traffic than they usually would at this time of year as people claim there is a ''euro shortage'' and that these offices are buying euros ''like oil''. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the ongoing war in Ukraine is affecting everything, and the operation of Croatian exchange offices hasn't been immune. Since the Russian invasion began last month, there have been crowds outside of exchange offices across the country, and Croats are buying euros en masse. These queues and crowds, Croatian exchange office employees say, last for days. "There's…

21 March 2022 - On the occasion of International Day of Gifted Pupils, President Zoran Milanović on Monday met with representatives of the Rijeka-based Centre  for Gifted Children. This year the centre from Rijeka is organising "Gifted Awareness Week" during which it will hold workshops for children and youth, lectures for teachers, expert associates and parents, it was said during the meeting. The centre's representatives mentioned the problems related to the system of education for gifted children in Croatia. "Croatia does not have a system to identify gifted children in kindergartens and schools nor a comprehensive system to care for gifted children at…

21 March 2022 - The HRK 267 million project for upgrading Osijek's tram infrastructure was launched on Monday in that eastern Croatian city and the works are expected to be completed within the next two years. Osijek Mayor Ivan Radić said that the project includes the adaptation to low-floor trams, which involves the reconstructing of 9.5 kilometres of tram tracks, the entire contact grid and 23 tram stops which will be adjusted for use by disabled persons. A total of HRK 200 million (€27 million) will be ensured from EU funds while the remainder will be secured by the state government and Osijek City authorities.…

21 March 2022 - Minister of the Sea, Transport and Infrastructure Oleg Butković presented 45 contracts for port construction and reconstruction in Zadar, Šibenik-Knin, Split-Dalmatia and Dubrovnik-Neretva counties at a ceremony in Zadar's Gaženica Port on Monday. The contracts, worth HRK 47.7 million (€6.36m) in total, will finance the construction and reconstruction of ports open to public transport, the modernisation and construction of fishing infrastructure, and the repair and reconstruction of the maritime domain in general use. "This is the continuation of the large investment cycle for ports and seafronts. We are a country that lives off the sea and is…

21 March 2022 - Croatia has recorded 292 new coronavirus cases and 16 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Monday. The number of active cases currently stands at 9,488. Among them are 677 infected people who have been hospitalised and 40 of them of them are on ventilators, while 7,514 people are self-isolating. A total of 4,623,826 people have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 virus to date, including 1,679 in the last 24 hours. Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in Croatia, 1,084,304 people have been registered as having been…

 21 March 2022 - A Zagreb University research team has established a test that enables the measurement of the quantity of antibodies that can neutralise the SARS-CoV-2 virus, creating preconditions for the development, control and application of specific immunoglobulins in COVID-19 treatment in Croatia. The research team of the Center for Research and Knowledge Transfer in Biotechnology, headed by Beata Halassy, has successfully established a wild-type SARS-CoV-2 neutralisation test, creating conditions for the development, control and application of specific immunoglobulins in the treatment of COVID-19 in Croatia, the University of Zagreb said in a press release. "This is the most relevant…

21 March 2022 - On the occasion of International Forest Day, Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomašević on Monday took part in a reforestation drive in the city's Maksimir Park, saying that the city administration wanted to increase the number of trees in the city's parks by 20%. "This year we have stepped our efforts compared to last year and I believe that we will achieve that goal by the end of our term," the mayor said at the event, held to plant saplings on the first day of the spring. The drive was organised by the public institution "Maksimir" in cooperation with…

21 March 2022 - Economy and Sustainable Development Minister Tomislav Ćorić said on Monday that he expected fuel prices to go down on Tuesday, with the price of diesel being slightly above HRK 12 and the price of petrol slightly below HRK 12, while the price of blue-dyed diesel would be around HRK 8 per litre. Ćorić, who was taking part in a reforestation drive in Zagreb's Maksimir Park, told reporters that the state could not guarantee that this would be the start of a process of price decline, adding that that would depend on prices on reference markets and further developments in the…

21 March 2022 - International Forest Day, 21 March, this year focuses on the theme "Forests and sustainable production and consumption", to warn that forest renewal and sustainable management helps fight climate change and crises that occur due to the loss of biodiversity.  Forests are threatened by climate change, wildfires, water disruptions, bacteria, fungi, and air, soil and water pollution. Globally, the loss of forests will continue due to climate change despite efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which is why sustainably managed forests fulfil all generally useful functions and produce goods and services for the integral sustainable development of communities.…