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March 10, 2022 - Future Scope Festival is around the corner, when Zagreb's most famous club night celebrates its 20th birthday! A massive celebration is being prepared from May 13 to 15 on the Jarun Island of Croatian Youth with the best international and Croatian musicians of various genres on four stages - from electronic and rock to rap. Impressive names have already been announced, including Sven Väth, Sister Bliss (Faithless DJ set), Stacey Pullen, Mauro Picotto, Sam Paganini, Paul Van Dyk, Terry Francis, Nathan Coles, Nicole Moudaber, Petar Dundov, Rundek and Ekipa, TBF, Elemental, ABOP, Detour, and Boris Štok. Two…

March 10, 2022 - One of the biggest concerts in Croatia this year has been announced - you won't want to miss Tame Impala at Pula Arena on August 17!  For the first time in Croatia, the Australian band Tame Impala, which revolutionized rock with its new sound, will perform at the Pula Arena on August 17, 2022. Tame Impala is a psychedelic music project by Australian multi-instrumentalist Kevin Parker. In his studio, Parker writes, records, performs and produces all the music of the Tame Impala project. On tour, Tame Impala consists of Parker (guitar, vocals), Dominic Simper (guitar, synthesizer),…

March 10, 2022 - TCN meets Kateryna, one of many Ukrainians escaping war to Croatia who is currently with her family in Ludbreg.  My name is Kateryna and I’m Ukrainian.  I've never been so proud to be Ukrainian before, and I'm really happy to share my story with you. I always thought that when I'll tell people my story it will be something unbelievably interesting and positive but everything has changed in a moment.  On the 24th of February, near 5 a.m. I woke up from the sound of explosions, Russia has started a full-scale war against Ukraine. My first thought…

ZAGREB, 10 March 2022 - Seafarers employed in the Jadrolinija Croatian national shipping company on Thursday rallied in the port of Gaženica, Zadar, to protest against low pays and the model of overtime payment. A leader of the independent trade union of seafarers in Jadrolinija, Nikica Grbić, said that the rally had brought together over a hundred seafarers who expressed their dissatisfaction with the retirement package. Gbrić said that upon retirement, former seafarers were paid only HRK 8,000 as severance pay. The unionist said that the negotiations on the national collective agreement had been ongoing for a decade. The disgruntled seafarers criticized the current acting…

ZAGREB, 10 March 2022 - Croatian ski racer Zrinka Ljutić won a bronze medal in the women's giant slalom at the FIS Alpine World Junior Championships in Panorama Mount Resort, Canada on Wednesday. The gold went to Magdalena Egger of Austria, who was by 1.01 seconds faster than Ljutić, and the silver to Emma Aicher of Germany, who was by 0.22 seconds slower than Egger. On Tuesday, the 18-year-old Ljutić became the world champion in the slalom event. To read more about sport in Croatia, follow TCN’s dedicated page. 

ZAGREB, 10 March 2022 - The average price of new flats in Croatia in 2021 was HRK 13,713 per square metre, which is 7.8% more than in 2020, show data from the national statistical office. In the capital Zagreb, the average price of a new flat was HRK 14,672 per square metre, 4.7% more than in 2020, while in other cities it was HRK 12,577 or 12.3% more. The average price of a new flat sold by companies and other legal entities, not including the government-subsidized housing construction scheme, was HRK 13,843 per square metre, 7.6% more than in 2020. The price…

ZAGREB, 10 March 2022 - A former commercial director of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), Dinko Suton, will join the Office of the President as its secretary-general. President Zoran Milanović's decision to appoint Suton has been advertised in the Official Journal and enters into force on 1 April. At the same time, a decision to relieve Mirjam Katulić as secretary-general of the Office of the President has been published, taking effect on 31 March. At one stage Suton was the director of the company Milanović established after leaving the post of prime minister. Katulić, a former employee of the Ministry of Foreign and European…

ZAGREB, 10 March 2022 - As of Thursday, Croatian authorities will be issuing digital EU COVID-19 certificates as proof of recovery based on a rapid antigen test, said the AKD company, a government-owned manufacturing company for the production of high-security printed products (ID cards, passports, etc.). Testing must be performed by an authorized laboratory and the test must be from the EU list of reliable rapid antigen tests. A certificate can be requested and obtained on the 11th day from the first positive test, and its validity is 180 days from the day of testing. For earlier test results it is possible to retroactively claim…

ZAGREB, 10 March 2022 - Croatia has registered 1,728 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours and 18 people have died as a consequence while there are 10,255 active cases, the national COVID response team reported on Thursday. Currently, 821 COVID patients are in hospital treatment 57 of whom are on respirators. Also, 6,302 persons are self-isolating. Under the vaccine rollout scheme, 65.59% of the adult population is fully vaccinated. For all you need to know about coronavirus specific to Croatia, make sure to bookmark our dedicated sectionand select your preferred language if it isn't English.

ZAGREB, 10 March 2022 - The city of Lviv in the west of Ukraine is faced with food and drug shortages as well as a shortage of volunteers to help the newly-arrived refugees who mostly lack safety, Croatian Ambassador to Ukraine Anica Djamić told Hina on Thursday. More than two million people have fled Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an invasion on the country two weeks ago. Djamić said that western Ukraine was faced "with an unprecedented number of refugees". People from the east of the country fleeing daily attacks by Russian forces are trying to reach the west of…