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February 2, 2022 - The Croatia national team will participate in a Doha friendly tournament next month as preparation for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar this December.  The Croatian Football Federation management has agreed that the Croatia national team will play a friendly tournament in Qatar in March. Croatia will play two matches in Doha, reports HNS. Croatia will face Slovenia on March 26 and will play Bulgaria three days later. The national team of Qatar will also play in the tournament, against Bulgaria (March 26) and Slovenia (March 29). The matches will be played at the stadiums in…

February 2, 2022 - If you own a dog or plan to bring one on your next adventure in the Pearl of the Adriatic, you will need to take into account the dog-walking rules in Dubrovnik, which from now on will be subject to greater supervision and enforcement by the City's Municipal Police. As reported today by Slobodna Dalmacija, the Municipal Police has published a notice for all pet owners, with a particular emphasis on dog-walking rules in Dubrovnik. In the coming period, the employees of the Department of Municipal Police of the City of Dubrovnik will intensify their supervision…

February 2, 2022 - With film crews in Dubrovnik arriving for the Amazon series Jack Ryan this month, is the Adriatic Pearl ready? At last week's City Council session, Dubrovnik Mayor Mato Franković reminded that filming of foreign productions would soon begin and that film crews have nowhere to go for food & drink because almost all restaurants are closed in winter, reports Dubrovacki Vjesnik. Recall, the new season of the Jack Ryan series will film in Dubrovnik this month, with about 300 people participating in this project. The Amazon Prime series is based on Tom Clancy novels and features…

ZAGREB, 2 Feb 2022 - The agriculture ministry has prepared two programmes to alleviate the impact of growing costs on farms and fisheries. The aid scheme for mitigating costs during the spring sowing season is worth HRK 80 million, while the aid scheme for fishermen and livestock farmers is worth HRK 50 million. The draft aid schemes will be forwarded in the coming days to the European Commission to give its consent and comments, the ministry reported on Wednesday. Apart from these two packages, the ministry is also seeking a way to help cattle breeders who have not been entitled to…

ZAGREB, 2 Feb 2022 - Croatia's construction and zoning ministry has developed a new e-service, a construction site diary application within its zoning information system, the ministry stated on Wednesday. The development of the whole module was financed by the European structural and investment funds. The total project cost amounted to HRK 4.85 million (647,000 euros), with 85% of these costs having been covered by the European Regional Development D+Fund. The application enables authorized persons such as those in charge of construction sites as well as investors, to gain insight on all construction projects and worksite processes, including all events and…

ZAGREB, 2 Feb 2022 - The exhibition about Slana on the island of Pag, the venue of the first concentration camp in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) which operated between June to August 1941, will be opened in the Salon Galić gallery in Split on Thursday. The authors of the exhibition titled "Slana – Radikalni krajobraz" ("Slana – the Radical Landscape”), are Davor Konjikušić, Nika Petković and Goran Andlar. The project was launched in 2016 to conduct interdisciplinary research, while findings from this research served as the basis for the 3D rendering of the camp. The Slana concentration camp was located in the…

ZAGREB, 2 Feb 2022 - The stockpiles of finished industrial goods at the end of December 2021 rose by 0.3% compared to figures from the previous month, but declined by 10.2% compared to December 2020, according to data released by the Croatian National Bureau of Statistics (DZS). Broken down by main industrial groups, compared with November 2021, stockpiles of capital goods increased 3.8%, durable consumer goods by 3.7%, non-durable consumer goods by 3%, and energy stockpiles went up 2.7%. On the other hand, stockpiles of intermediate goods decreased by 4.1%. Contraction year-on-year The stockpiles of capital goods declined 48.6% compared to December 2020, while the stockpiles…

ZAGREB, 2 Feb 2022 - World Wetlands Day, which is observed on 2 February in memory of the conclusion of the Ramsar Convention on 2 February 1971, is being marked by various activities by nature parks and bird reserves throughout Croatia on Wednesday. Croatia is a signatory to the convention concluded in the Iranian city 51 years ago. Croatia's entries into the list of Wetlands of International Importance are the Kopački Rit, Lonjsko Polje, Vransko Jezero (Jezero Vrana), the Crna Mlaka bird reserve outside Zagreb and the delta of the River Neretva. They are organising presentations and birdwatching on the occasion of today's World…

ZAGREB, 1 Feb 2022 - The ruling HDZ's political secretary said on Tuesday that with his latest statements, President Zoran Milanović was trying to remove the government, waging a political coup against it and meddling in the work of state institutions, which he said was unprecedented in Croatian history. "Since 2000, this is the first time that the president of the republic is waging a political coup against the Croatian government and trying to remove the government, and all based on a whistleblower," Ante Sanader told the press. He said the president was also exerting direct pressure on institutions and estimated that he "became…

ZAGREB, 1 Feb 2022 - There is no European, Western European or EU stability without Russia and it is necessary to reach an agreement with it, Croatian President Zoran Milanović said on Tuesday, accusing the West of inciting a war that he hopes will not break out. "I don't even want one Ukrainian to be killed, even one Russian. As for Croats, not a chance," he told the press. "There is no European stability, no Western European stability or European Union stability without Russia in the equation, and it's necessary to reach an agreement with Russia." After telling a female journalist…