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ZAGREB, 14 Jan 2022 - Regional Development and EU Funds Minister Nataša Tramišak and the director of the Split University Hospital Centre (KBC Split), Julije Meštrović, on Friday visited the construction site of the future Integrated Emergency Services (IES), where building works are being carried out intensively. The minister said that the works are going on according to the plan and the first stage is expected to be completed by the middle of this year. Tramišak revealed that KBC Split has plans and is preparing documents for other strategic projects, including the construction of a new hospital building and that EU funds have been…

ZAGREB, 14 Jan 2022 - Over the past 30 years, since it gained independence, Croatia has lost 895,736 residents or close to 19% of its population, show data from the national statistical office (DZS). The size of the population has been shrinking since 1991 when the country had a population of 4,784,265, and in 2021, according to data of the census conducted that year, it had a population of 3,888,529. This means that in the 30 years of its independence, Croatia has lost 18.7% of its population. In 2001 the country had a population of 4,437,460 and in 2011 4,284,889. In the decades…

ZAGREB, 14 Jan 2022 - Opposition Homeland Movement party deputy leader Mario Radić said on Friday that the results of the latest census showed that Croatia was perishing, with the largest population drops having been registered in peripheral counties due to lack of any state policy for those areas. "Everything that has been happening to us, all the scandals - JANAF, Krš-Pađene, HNB - are resulting in Croatia's going to ruin and the only thing we are doing is trying to prove who is less responsible for it," Radić told a news conference, stressing that two parties (HDZ and SDP) had ruled…

January 14, 2022 - More on the Croatian census 2021, as the pace of emigration in Osijek means that there are now only three Croatian cities with more than 100,000 inhabitants. As previously reported on TCN, the Central Bureau of Statistics published the first results of the 2021 census in the morning. Index.hr has some further information from the Croatian census 2021 regarding the cities in Croatia. The results contain data on the total number of enumerated persons and on the total number of inhabitants, households and housing units at the level of the Republic of Croatia, level 2 statistical…

ZAGREB, 14 Jan 2022 - In the last 24 hours, Croatia has performed 17,926 coronavirus tests, and 48% of them, or 8,555 have returned positive, while the infection has taken 32 more lives, raising the COVID-related death toll to 13,038, the country's COVID-19 crisis management team reproted on Friday. There are currently 55,789 active cases of the infection in the country, including 1,710 hospitalised patients of whom 205 are on ventilators. Since the first registered case of the infection with the novel virus in Croatia in late February 2020, 802,745 cases of the disease have been reported so far, and…

ZAGREB, 14 Jan 2022 - Croatia's population in 2021 is estimated at 3,888,529, downsizing by 396,360 (9.25%) since the previous census in 2011, according to the first results of the census, presented by the national statistical office on Friday. Vukovar-Srijem County population contracted by a fifth Broken down by region, the biggest drop in the population of 19.54% over the last 10 years was recorded in the eastern county of Vukovar-Srijem. Sisak-Moslavina County saw a drop of 18.5%, and Slavonski Brod-Posavina County's population shrank by 17.53%.  On the other hand, the slightest decline, -2.54%, was in the population of the capital city…

January 14, 2022 - Confirmation of what many suspected, as the population of Croatia officially falls below 4 million, reports Index.hr. The Central Bureau of Statistics has published the first results of the 2021 Census. According to the 2011 Census, there were 4,284,889 inhabitants in Croatia. Demographer Andjelko Akrap, who has been warning about bad demographic trends for years, told Index last night that he was sure that the new census would show that it has less than four million inhabitants. It should be reminded that Croatia was hit by a large wave of emigration after joining the EU, especially…

ZAGREB, 14 Jan 2022 - This year, 206 future professional firefighters have enrolled in the Croatian State Fire School, and after the establishment of the school's departments in the capital city of Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, and as of this year in a fourth department established in Osijek. Training for the future firefighters started this week. In her address to firefighting students, acting principal, Matea Novosel, said that they have chosen an occupation in which they can perform a humanitarian and professional mission. Addressing the students in Zagreb, Chief Fire Commander, Slavko Tucaković, said that Croatia could be proud of its 150-year-long firefighting tradition.

January 14, 2022 - Tonči Glavina, State Secretary of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, believes that 2021's success is due to excellent tourist season preparation. Despite all the challenges, the last tourist year achieved extraordinary results. Considering the circumstances, and compared to the results in 2020, slightly less than 70 percent of arrivals and 80 percent of overnight stays were recorded in 2021 compared to 2019.  Slobodna Dalmacija spoke with Tonči Glavina, State Secretary of the Ministry of Tourism and Sports, who believes that the success stems from the excellent preparation for the tourist season. "And I intentionally say season,…

January 14, 2022 - Filip Hrgović and Tony Yoka have agreed to fight in the IBF Final Eliminator for the Heavyweight World Championship. Filip Hrgović has finally won the fight of his career! His opponent will be his biggest rival yet, Frenchman Tony Yoka, reports Gol.hr. After famous boxing promoter Eddie Hearn announced the news, it was officially confirmed by Hrgović's managers, the Sauerland brothers.  "CONFIRMED: @TonyYoka has formally accepted tonight in writing the challenge to fight @Filip_Hrgovic in a final IBF Final Eliminator for the Heavyweight World Championship - El Animal has found a dance partner," reads their announcement on…