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ZAGREB, 5 January, 2022 - City Councillor Renato Petek of the Social Democratic Party on Wednesday posted on his Facebook profile that the Zagreb Holding utility company's plan was "shameful and scandalous" as it intends to lay off pregnant women, women on maternity leave and parents with disabled children. "Shame and scandal upon the Holding management for lack of empathy and sensitivity towards pregnant women, women on maternity leave and parents caring for disabled children in the plan for lay-offs. Unfortunately, it is true that the Holding's correspondence to unions contains a list of names and surnames of protected groups including pregnant…

ZAGREB, 5 January, 2022 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Wednesday at a government session that there was a record-high number of new coronavirus infections, as many as 8,587, which, he said, was also due to the Omicron variant. The number of new infections in the last 24 hours is around 50% higher than last week and twice the number of two weeks ago. "The figures are as expected and prove that the new variant, Omicron, is probably very much present in Croatia as well. It will not spare anyone, we know that it is a much more transmissible variant…

ZAGREB, 5 January, 2022 - In 2021 45,289 new passenger vehicles were sold, up 25.5% from 2020, when 36,084 cars were sold, and in December 2021 alone 2,484 cars were sold, up 19.5% on the year, according to the Promocija Plus market research agency. Volkswagen was the best selling make in 2021 with 5,783 cars sold, or 12.7% of all cars sold, followed by Škoda with 4,571 cars sold, Opel with 3,602 cars sold, Kia (3,226) and Dacia (3,010). Croatians also bought 1,420 Audis, 1,130 BMWs, 1,065 Mercedes cars, 190 Porsches and 234 Tesla cars. Exotic models that were sold include 4 Ferraris and 2…

ZAGREB, 5 January, 2022 - Croatia has registered 8,587 new coronavirus cases and 32 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Wednesday. This is a new record high number of daily cases of the infection after 10 November when Croatia registered 7,315 new cases. In the last 24 hours, 18,689 coronavirus tests have been performed and 46% of them have turned out to be positive. The number of active cases in the country currently stands at 35,202. Among them are 1,841 infected persons receiving hospital treatment, including 230 who are on ventilators, and 17,413 persons are…

ZAGREB, 5 January, 2022 - The state-owned Jadrolinija shipping company in 2021 transported 10.5 million passengers and 3.1 million vehicles, which is 85% of the 2019 result and 40% more passengers and vehicles than in the pandemic year 2020. Even though 2021 was good in terms of business results, the company is cautious about its revenue estimate and expects revenue to be lower than in the pre-pandemic years. Losses in 2020 were significant and the decline in the number of passengers and vehicles transported has significantly affected the operator's revenue and liquidity. In December 2021 the government granted Jandrolinija support in the…

January 5, 2022 - Poor track conditions, especially in the lower part with strong winds, forced the World Ski Organization (FIS) to cancel the Snow Queen Trophy day 2 on Sljeme. For now, the possibility of moving the race to Thursday is being considered, though it is questionable considering that the giant slalom in Adelboden is already on Saturday. The organizers tried to postpone the start of the race, but in the end, they decided that they would not be able to go on.  No matter how much effort the organizers put in to keep the ground solid, the exceptionally…

January 5, 2022 - Split Airport is the busiest Croatian airport in 2021, dethroning Zagreb Airport for the first time in history!  The three leading Croatian airports, Zagreb, Split, and Dubrovnik, published their monthly statistics for December, thus rounding off the annual statistics for 2021. Split Airport has confirmed its status as the busiest Croatian airport in 2021! As Croatian Aviation already announced a few months ago, Split Airport is now officially the busiest airport in the Republic of Croatia. Namely, in 2021, a total of 1,577,584 passengers traveled through the airport. On the other hand, Zagreb, which has always been busier…

ZAGREB, 5 January, 2022 - It is in Croatia's interest for Bosnia and Herzegovina to join the European Union because that is the best solution for a stable and functional Bosnia and Herzegovina and all of its peoples and citizens, Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman said in Vitez on Tuesday. The Croatian minister of foreign and European affairs is on a two-day official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, and on the first day he visited Vitez, where he met with Croatian officials from central Bosnia. After the meeting, he told reporters that the goal was to analyse the needs of Croats…

ZAGREB, 5 January, 2022 - Croatian police officers will be helping their Slovenian colleagues in contact with Croatian citizens at ski resorts in Kranjska Gora and Rogla in Slovenia in January, the Ministry of the Interior said on Tuesday. Two Croatian police officers will be staying at the two ski resorts from 3 to 16 January. The project, presented in Rogla on Tuesday, is called the "Winter Tourist Season" and it is a version of a project by the Croatian police "Safe Tourist Destination", which is implemented in the summer, when police officers from abroad come to Croatia. A total of…

ZAGREB, 5 January, 2022 - The USKOK anti-corruption office on Tuesday dismissed allegations by the National weekly that prosecutor Krešimir Ostrogonac had stopped the interrogation of Mirela Alerić Puklin, an indicted former prosecutor in the Agrokor case, after she said that she knew how USKOK had ended the Borg affair. In its denial USKOK claims that Ostrogonac, a deputy to the USKOK director, conducted Alerić Puklin's questioning in line with the Criminal Procedure Act and the presentation of defence which the former prosecutor, who in November 2021 was suspected of leaking information from investigations related to Agrokor, chose herself in the presence of her…