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Friday, 11 March 2022
Milanović: Drone Arrived From Ukraine, Was Not Directed Against Croatia
ZAGREB, 11 March (2022) - President Zoran Milanović said on Friday that an unmanned aerial vehicle's crash in Zagreb was a serious incident, and the assessment is that the incident was not directed against Croatia, and that it was likely that control had been lost over the drone that had probably come from Ukraine. The unmanned aerial vehicle fell in the area of Jarun, and fortunately there were no human casualties, the president said at an extraordinary news conference. An investigation is under way to establish how it could happen that a six-tonne aerial vehicle, the size of an aircraft, had not been detected why flying all the way…
Friday, 11 March 2022
Zagreb Aircraft Crash: Arrived Via Hungary, Ukraine Says It Isn't Theirs
March the 11th, 2022 - The Zagreb aircraft crash which caused an explosion in the capital at around 23:00 last night has been attacting the headlines and even more rumours. You can click here and here to read what we know so far, as well as here for an official government response to the event. Here's an update from Index - a loud bang was heard in part of the City of Zagreb just after 23:00 last night. Police and firefighters quickly reacted and took to Jarunska cesta where the incident had taken place. A large crater was left in the…
Friday, 11 March 2022
Croatia's 2021 Electronic Communications Market Revenues Up 3.6%
ZAGREB, 11 March (2022) - The Croatian electronic communications market generated HRK 11.5 billion in revenues in 2021, up by 3.6% on 2020, while investment increased by 20.5% to exceed HRK 3 billion, according to data from the regulatory authority for network industries HAKOM. Of the total revenue, HRK 615 million was generated by very high capacity fixed networks, which is an increase of 115.5% compared with 2020. The number of optical fibre connections increased by 33.7%. Revenues from broadband internet services increased by 11%, from network and cable leasing services by 4.6% and from pay television by 4.2%. The…
Friday, 11 March 2022
Government Issues Official Statement in Response to Zagreb Explosion
March the 11th, 2022 - Following last night's bizarre Zagreb explosion which involved the falling of pieces of aircraft and two parachutes close to Jarun, as well as many rumours, the government has issued an official statement. Here it is translated into English in full: ''A meeting of the competent bodies of the security and defense system was held in the Office of the National Security Council, attended by the Deputy Prime Minister for National Security and Minister of Croatian Veterans Mr. Medved, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Mr. Bozinovic, Minister of Defense Mr. Banozic, Director of…
Friday, 11 March 2022
Zagreb Explosion: Was it a Soviet Drone That Fell Last Night? Maybe
March the 11th, 2022 - We wrote this morning about an unidentified object which fell from the sky here in the City of Zagreb at around 23:00 last night, with a lot of speculation circulating as to what it was, and more importantly, why it was anywhere near Zagreb. Could a Soviet drone have been the cause of the loud Zagreb explosion last night? Potentially. As Index/Nenad Jaric Dauenhauer writes, as Index learned during the night from some well-informed sources, according to the information gathered so far, which was obtained by the competent services during the investigation, a drone crashed in…
Friday, 11 March 2022
Explosion in Zagreb: The Hole, the Plane, the Parachutes...
March the 11th, 2022 - An explosion in Zagreb could be heard last night at 23:00, and a very strange situation has unfolded since then, with an impact hole, parts of a plane and parachutes discovered. All aviation services claim to not have ''lost'' any aircraft. Here's the situation as we currently understand it, with the latest information first. As Jutarnji/Tomislav Kukek/Anamaria Hanzek writes, the Zagreb police have also now spoken out about the incident near Jarun: ''On March the 10th, 2022, just after 23:00, the Zagreb Police Administration received several reports from people that they felt a detonation in the…
Friday, 11 March 2022
Inflation-Curbing Measures Not Enough for Croatian Transport Sector
March the 11th, 2022 - Despite the fact that the Croatian Government is set to put its inflation-curbing measures into force on the 1st of next month, for the very hard hit Croatian transport sector, which is still reeling from the pandemic, it won't be enough. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Suzana Varosanec writes, the Croatian transport sector and bus carriers are already on their knees owing to the pandemic, the restrictions on travel and a lack of help from the state, and now with inflation and soaring fuel and oil prices, things have been made ten times harder. Oil prices on reference markets…
Friday, 11 March 2022
German Croatian Holiday Booking Boomed Before Russian Ukraine Invasion
March the 11th, 2022 - German Croatian holiday booking was exceeding 2019's pre-pandemic levels and experiencing a real ''boom'' just before Vladimir Putin's shock invasion of neighbouring Ukraine a couple of weeks ago. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, up until the beginning of the unjustified Russian invasion of Ukraine last month, German Croatian holiday booking levels were truly excellent, even better than in pre-pandemic 2019, but what the rest of the tourist season will look like this year is uncertain because the entire European market is currently in a state of shock. This is how Romeo Draghicchio, director of the…
Friday, 11 March 2022
Zagreb Lower Town to See Festival of Lights for First Time
March the 11th, 2022 - The Zagreb lower town (donji grad) is set to be lit up by the Festival of Lights for the first time, joining upper town (gornji grad) in the return of this festival following a coronavirus-induced two year break. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Lucija Spiljak writes, following a two-year break, the Festival of Lights is returning to the City of Zagreb, and it will be held in its fourth edition from March the 16th to the 20th, when visitors will be able to enjoy 32 artistic light attractions at 31 locations from 18:00 to 23:00. Along with the city's…
Friday, 11 March 2022
Ana Hrgovcic of Biljke.Plants: Oasis for Urban Jungle Growth in Zagreb
March the 11th, 2022 - Ana Hrgovcic is creating a real little jungle in the very heart of the City of Zagreb, and her urban jungle idea will surely appeal to all plant lovers. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes, the Croatian brand Biljke.Plants, which deals with the design of plant terraces, started its business back in 2020, at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, when the owner Ana Hrgovcic came up with the idea of making plant decorations for interior styling. The idea quickly developed into a business venture thanks to, as Ana Hrgovcic herself says, perseverance and product quality.…
Friday, 11 March 2022
Flight Reservations to Croatia and Eastern Europe Drop Due to War in Ukraine
March 11, 2022 - Flight reservations to Croatia and Eastern Europe have dropped from February 24 to March 2 due to the war in Ukraine. Due to the war in Ukraine, the number of flight bookings within Europe is falling, and the biggest drop in demand is recorded in Eastern Europe, reports Croatian Aviation. A company that collects and analyzes data on travel, Forward Keys, published data on the movement of demand for flights after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The data compares reservations from February 24 to March 2 with those in the week before the Russian invasion of…
