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ZAGREB, 20 March 2022 - Construction and Zoning Minister Ivan Paladina and War Veterans' Minister Tomo Medved, who heads the national crisis management team for post-quake reconstruction, visited Petrinja on Sunday and on that occasion they said that the reconstruction process was at a turning point. They held a working meeting with local authorities. The lion's share of the administrative procedure, as a precondition for the start of building work on damaged structures, has been finished. Now, the process of the post-quake reconstruction has reached a turning point. During their stay in Petrinja, the ministers also met local activists who told…

ZAGREB, 20 March 2022 - Since the start of the war in Ukraine, over 8,300 refugees have arrived in Croatia, and Interior Minister Davor Božinović said on Sunday that Europe was braced for the growing pressure on three fronts: energy security, defence costs and accommodation of refugees. "This is an unprecedented humanitarian issue in Europe. Thousands, tens of thousands of people are leaving Ukraine. We can expect an influx of refugees in all EU member-states, including Croatia", Božinović noted. "The United Nations' recent projections about up to four million people fleeing Ukraine seems today as a conservative scenario, since the…

ZAGREB, 20 March 2022 - The latest round of the negotiations on amending Bosnia and Herzegovina's electoral law, which was held in Sarajevo on Sunday, ended inconclusively, with Bosnia Croat leader Dragan Čović saying that "there are absolutely no conditions" for holding general elections in October. Čović also accused the Bosniak leader Bakir Izetbegović (of the SDA BiH party) of the failure. Most of the participants in the negotiations which were held today under the mediation of managing director at the EU's External Action Service, Angelina Eichhorst and US Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Michael Murphy, who confirmed that the round of the…

ZAGREB, 20 March 2022 - Demand for new cars in the European Union (EU) dropped in February 2022 for the eighth consecutive month due to supply chain disruptions, with Croatia also recording a decline, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) reported this week. A total of 719,465 new cars were registered in the EU in February 2022, which is 6.7% fewer than in the same month in 2021 and the lowest number since 1993 when ACEA began collecting data. Compared with January 2022, the number of new car registrations fell by 6.0%. Among the leading markets, Italy and France reported…

March 20, 2022 - The gourmet scene in the Croatian capital is improving vastly - meet the top Zagreb restaurants and best newcomers, according to the new Gault & Millau dedicated guide to the best 100 restaurants in Zagreb and Zagreb County.  "Oh, and the FOOD." It is a sentence I have heard a lot in the last 12 months talking to tourists and digital nomads about what they like about Zagreb. There is a definite buzz about the city, with more and more foreign accents heard on an increasing number of street corners. The city is fast becoming a…

ZAGREB, 20 March 2022 - Croatia has recorded 901 new coronavirus cases and 10 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Sunday. The number of active cases currently stands at 10,697. Among them are 661 infected people who have been hospitalised and 44 of them are on ventilators, while 8,338 people are self-isolating. Over 4.62 million tests for the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been conducted to date, including 4,034 in the last 24 hours. Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in Croatia, 1,084,012 cases of this infectious disease have been diagnosed. As many as…

ZAGREB, 20 March 2022 - A new round of applications for subsidised housing loans starts on Monday when the relevant APN agency starts receiving the requests, while the government has set aside HRK 50 million (€6.7 million) for this purpose. After the completion of a public call for banks to submit their offers, on 4 March, APN concluded contracts with 14 credit institutions on subsidised housing loans. The lowest effective rate of 1.99% for both the kuna- and the euro-pegged loans was given by two banks: Erste&Steiermarkische banka and Karlovačka Banka for the latest round. According to the data provided by the ministry, 22,169 requests for subsidised…

ZAGREB, 20 March 2022 - On the occasion of World Oral Health Day (WOHD), observed on 20 March, Health Minister Vili Beroš said on Sunday that the prevalence of tooth decal among children aged 12 was declining. |The latest data show that Croatia's Decayed, Missing, and Filled Teeth (DMFT) index has fallen from 4.3 to 2.6, which means that dental caries incidence is on a decline", Beroš said. Decayed, Missing, and Filled Teeth (DMFT) index has been used since the 1930s, and is today the predominant population-based measure of caries experience worldwide. It is one of the most common methods in oral epidemiology for…

ZAGREB, 20 March 2022 - To date, over 8,300 Ukrainians fleeing the war have found refugee in Croatia, Interior Minister Davor Božinović said on Sunday. "Croatia has very well responded to the developments so far. However, watching what is going on, we can see that we will have to be braced for various consequences even for the ordinary citizens, and unfortunately, the worst stage of the war is about to happen", he said after a meeting of the interdepartmental task force for providing protection for refugees from Ukraine. "This is an unprecedented humanitarian issue in Europe. Thousands, tens of thousands of people…

ZAGREB, 20 March 2022 - Animals and family pets that arrive from Ukraine with their owners fleeing the war, will be eligible to free-of-charge vaccination and registration in Croatia, the association "Animal Friends Croatia" stated on Sunday. The association recalls that the administration of Veterinary and Food Safety of the Ministry of Agriculture has issued detailed instructions and a list of veterinary organisations and vet clinics that conduct free-of charge rabies vaccination, preventive dehelmintization and microchipping. The NGO also stated on 18 March on its web site that "the administration of Veterinary and Food Safety of the Ministry of Agriculture has published a form to…