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January the 16th, 2022 - Economic analyst Andrej Grubisic has spoken among a series of others to state his feelings about the recently released official Croatian 2021 Census data, noting an uncomfortable truth about just how many people are employed in the country's public sector. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, economic analyst Andrej Grubisic was a recent guest of N1 on which he commented on the repercussions of a smaller number of residents of the country on the sustainability of the pension system. He says fewer people in the country means that they will see the greatest repercussions of pressure on…

January 15, 2022 - The transit feature in Google Maps allows users to view public transportation options and keep track of departure times and stops IT company Exevio from Rijeka helped implement the Google Transit feature in their city after a year of collaboration with Google, announced the bus company Autotrolej. Autotrolej allowed Google access to their unified database of routes, timetables and other relevant data. After a successful collaboration of the local bus company with the tech giant, getting around Rijeka by bus will be easier than ever for locals and tourists alike. Google Transit is a service within…

January 15, 2022 – Meet Vanja Maksimović, the owner of Lima Baby – a shop with handmade pieces of bedding and mats for your little ones Meet Vanja Maksimović, a young laboratory technician, soon-to-be mother of two, and business owner. Vanja says that she has always been the energetic, creative type with a constant bug to decorate and redecorate, to change things up, doing it all on her own. If you follow her on Instagram, you will know exactly what I mean – she has salvaged so many old pieces of furniture and turned them into not only perfectly usable but…

January 15, 2022 - The census results were released this week, with most seeking explanations for the large number of Croats who have left the country in recent years. In a separate study, it is confirmed that more Croats emigrated in the last 8 years than during Yugoslav times. Based on estimates by Croatian diplomatic missions and consular offices, Croatian Catholic missions, and censuses in countries where Croatian emigrants and their descendants reside, until a few years ago it was estimated that about 3,200,000 Croatian emigrants and their children live outside Croatia, reports Zadarski.hr. The largest Croatian diaspora is currently in…

January 15, 2022 - Croatia beats Serbia 23:20 in the second match of Group C at the EHF Euro 2022 in Szeged, Hungary.  The Croatia men's handball team met Serbia on Saturday night to advance to the second round of the European Championship in Hungary. Recall, Croatia fell to France in the first match of Group C on Thursday.  Coach Hrvoje Horvat is still battling the coronavirus among his players. Today, Zvonimir Srna and young goalkeeper Matej Mandić dropped out of the squad. This match saw the return of Luka Cindrić, which was certainly a huge advantage for Croatia.  The…

January 15, 2022 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Saturday that demography was the biggest challenge for the Croatian people in the years ahead. Everyone must contribute and the government has taken a series of measures to enable young families to "stand on their feet," he added. "At the end, whatever it undertakes, the state can't decide for someone how large a family they will have," he said on Croatian Radio when asked about the 2021 population census, which shows that Croatia has 3,888,529 inhabitants, 396,360 fewer than in 2011. Today Croatia has roughly the same population size as in 1948, but then there…

January 15, 2022 - In the last 24 hours 8,958 coronavirus cases, out of 18,381 tests, and 35 deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Saturday. There are 55,046 active cases, including 1,688 hospitalised patients, of whom 229 are on ventilators, while 25,990 persons are self-isolating. Croatia has registered 811,703 coronavirus cases to date. The death toll is 13,073. To date, 56.16% of the population has been vaccinated, including 66.87% of adults, of whom 64.17% fully.

January 15, 2022 - How many uhljebs quit Croatia since 1991? A closer look after the new census results.  According to the new census, Croatia has 3,888,529 inhabitants, which means that it has lost 400,000 inhabitants since the last census in 2011, the Central Bureau of Statistics announced. Index.hr reports that since the 1948 census, Croatia has not recorded such a low number. Since 1991, it has lost 895,736 inhabitants, almost all of Zagreb. The drastic drop in population begins a year after Tudjman's overwhelming HDZ victory in the country's first democratic elections. Although the war broke out since then,…

January 15, 2022 - When Croatia achieved international recognition on 15 January 1992, the Homeland War was on and almost one-third of the country was under occupation by the Yugoslav People's Army and Serb rebels. On the evening of 15 January 1992, the then president Franjo Tuđman said that date would be carved in golden letters into the 14-century-long history of the Croatian people on the territory between the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers and the Adriatic Sea. To his associates, he said, "We have created the internationally recognised Croatia. Let's celebrate tonight and then roll up our sleeves in building…

January 15, 2022 - A Roman goddess Venus statue in Zadar has been discovered at the construction site of a future hotel. It is about 1800 years old.  A statue of the Roman goddess Venus was found on the construction site of a future hotel in the center of Zadar, about a meter high, preserved from the knees to below the chest, made of marble, and about 1800 years old, reports Slobodna Dalmacija.  "Academician Nenad Cambi, our greatest expert on antiquity, believes that it is most likely a statue of the goddess Venus. Its full height was about two meters,…