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ZAGREB, 16 March 2022 - Caritas Croatia has raised HRK 2.5 million for the Ukraine war victims and is currently collecting material relief, the charity said on Wednesday. There have been about 44,000 calls to a donation line and Caritas will forward all the money raised to Ukraine. People may bring their material relief donations to Caritas warehouses or parishes. All the necessary information is available on the charity's website. Caritas also said that it was participating in providing for and ensuring psychosocial assistance to Ukraine refugees in cooperation with local Croatian Red Cross and Civil Protection branches.   Politics: For more, check…

ZAGREB, 16 March 2022- Agriculture Minister Marija Vučković on Wednesday presented a new land consolidation bill aimed at facilitating the integration of small and irregular parcels into bigger and more regular ones as prerequisites for increasing production, cultivating land, and upgrading local infrastructure. The money set aside to apply the law will help to consolidate 18,000 hectares, but there is interest in consolidating more, the minister said in parliament. Twenty-three local units interested in the consolidation of 46,600 hectares replied to the ministry's call for applications last October, she told independent MP Marijana Petir, who asked if consolidation funds could be increased given the…

ZAGREB, 16 March 2022 - HRT director-general Robert Šveb on Wednesday decided to appoint Rahela Štefanović the editor-in-chief of the national broadcaster's television channels HTV1, HTV2, HTV3, HTV4 and its international channel. Štefanović's appointment followed after 79.78% of the editors, journalists and photo-journalists of the HRT who participated in a non-binding advisory vote supported her nomination. There are 1,356 journalists and staffers eligible to take part in this kind of vote, and 178 or 13.13% participated in it. Štefanović will succeed Bruno Kovačević on 21 March.   Business: For more, check out our business section.

ZAGREB, 16 March 2022 - Dukat continues to increase the buy-up price of milk from its sub-contractors, which will go up by HRK 0.15 per litre as of 1 April and by an additional HRK 0.10 as of 1 May, the Zagreb-based dairy company stated on Wednesday. In addition to the increases in the price for purchased milk in January and March, the aggregate rise will be HRK 0.50 per litre, Dukat's director Duško Glišić, said, according to a press release. Dukat says it is aware of difficulties faced by small farms due to the higher input costs and disturbances on the…

ZAGREB, 16 March 2022 - In February 2022, compared to February 2021, the prices of goods and services for personal consumption increased by 6.3%, the most since August 2008, when annual inflation was 7.1%, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday. In February 2022 inflation continued to increase. In January 2022 it went up by 5.7% on the annual level, in December 2021 by 5.5%, in November by 4.8%, in October by 3.8%, and in September by 3.3%. The first major inflation increase last year was recorded in April (+2.1%). In February 2022, compared to January 2022, the prices of goods and…

ZAGREB, 16 March 2022 - The Solidarna Foundation on Wednesday reported that it has set up a fund to help refugees fleeing Ukraine in the wake of the Russian invasion of that country, particularly women and children who have found refuge in Croatia. The foundation will follow the crisis and use the fund to respond to the needs of refugees and their families in Croatia. It will conduct activities in coordination with civil society groups and public bodies to provide short-term assistance and support as well as long-term support for the refugees. "That includes an open channel for emergency support to…

ZAGREB, 16 March 2022- Ever since the war in Ukraine started, Croatian citizens have been spending HRK 160 million more a week than prior to the war, the Večernji List daily reported on Wednesday. Last week's fiscalised retail turnover was about HRK 2.7 billion as against HRK 2.54 billion a week in the weeks prior to the war. That is a jump of 6% on the week and such a sudden increase occurs only for public holidays or in extraordinary situations. The war that has shocked all of Europe is certainly one of those situations and it has aroused fear of…

ZAGREB, 16 March 2022 - The current geopolitical situation regarding the war in Ukraine, the growth of prices of energy products and inflation are affecting demand in the tourism sector to some extent, but bookings have not stopped, the Croatian Tourism and Sports Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday. The ministry issued the statement following a regular online meeting held this week between Minister Nikolina Brnjac and heads of Croatian Tourism Board (HTZ) offices abroad. Bookings for Croatian destinations have not stopped despite the current geopolitical situation, the heads of the HTZ offices said, noting that by 24 February, when…

ZAGREB, 16 March 2022 - Croatia has registered 2,659 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours and ten people have died as a consequence, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Wednesday. There are currently 10,240 active cases while 6,512 people are self-isolating. There are 712 hospitalised patients, 44 of whom are on ventilators. Croatia has registered a total of 1,077,365 cases of COVID-19 since its outbreak in February 2020 and 15,383 people have died as a consequence while 1,051,742 have recovered from the contagion. To date, a total of 2,234,923 people have been fully vaccinated, which is 65.63% of the adult population.  …

March 16, 2022 - The workshop organized by Kinoklub Zagreb will be hosted by the award-winning filmmakers Sunčica Ana Veldić and Zorko Sirotić, who by moderating and mentoring each individual project will challenge authors to 'find their own voice and expand the established boundaries of film thinking and expectations'. Kinoklub Zagreb is organizing a workshop on author's documentary film intended for advanced participants, who will make a short documentary film in ten terms during April and May, which will then be shown publicly, reports tportal.hr. At the workshop, participants will develop, prepare and independently realize their film, exploring through a series of…