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December 22, 2021 - Olympic taekwondo gold medalist Matea Jelić and Olympic sailing silver medalist Tonči Stipanović were named Croatia's best athletes in 2021 by the Croatian Olympic Committee, The awards were presented at the Great Day of Croatian Sports celebration in the Crystal Hall of The Westin in Zagreb. In addition to the Olympic gold in Tokyo, Jelić also won the European champion title. In addition to winning the Olympic silver again in the Laser class, Stipanović also won the bronze at the World Championships in Barcelona. Interestingly, both were named Athletes of the Year in 2020 when Jelić…

December 22, 2022 - The most ambitious solar power plant project in Croatia has been launched, implemented by Valamar and E.ON Solar, which operate within the E.ON Croatia Group. The cooperation between E.ON and Valamar included the installation of solar power plants at 26 Valamar hotels and camps along the Adriatic coast, which covers 5 percent of Valamar's total electricity needs, reports HRTurizam. Cooperation with Valamar is the first and largest project in Croatia under the ESCO financing model in which power plants are owned by E.ON's company Solnet, and all energy produced is intended for Valamar for its own consumption.…

December 21, 2021 - Zagreb Digital Nomad December Ambassadors Anna Maria Kochanska from Poland and Steve Tsentserensky from USA interviewed in the Index.hr studio.  It has been quite a year for Zagreb and its digital nomad journey.  It is 18 months since Dutch entrepreneur Jan de Jong wrote an open letter to Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic asking him to implement a digital nomad visa.  Things moved very quickly after that. Plenkovic announced his intention to introduce the visa some 44 days later, and it came into effect on January 1 this year. A variety of high-profile events, including the…

ZAGREB, 21 Dec (Hina) - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Tuesday that President Zoran Milanović was playing the part of opposition leader and that the MOST party's referendum petition against COVID certificates was evil and perfidious, whose only goal was the self-promotion of several actors. "This is the first time since... 2000 that someone elected to the office of president of the republic works solely for the opposition and not for a harmonious, uniform functioning of all branches of government," Plenković told the press in Bjelovar. Milanović is playing the part of someone who should be the leader of the opposition and…

ZAGREB, 21 December, 2021 - Constitutional Court president Miroslav Šeparović said on Tuesday that in future the national COVID-19 crisis management team would have to explain its every decision in detail, and that the court's decisions applied to everyone, including the head of state. Speaking to the press after the court ruled that the pandemic protocols are legitimate, Šeparović said the court delivered several decisions, primarily regarding the law protecting the population from infectious diseases. He said the national crisis management team would have to explain its next decision already so that those to whom it applied and the public knew why it was…

ZAGREB, 21 December, 2021 - The Croatian Medical Chamber (HLK) leader, Krešimir Luetić, said on Tuesday that Ronapreve, a medicine used for treating COVID-19 in adults, had arrived in Croatia on Monday, and that the drug would be used in acute cases. It will certainly help some people diagnosed with this infectious disease, however, it will not heal everyone who is infected, the doctor warned. "Medication against COVID is for acute patients and we have a relatively small amount of the medicine in Croatia," Luetić told reporters after the first 1,800 doses of Ronapreve were shipped to Croatia. Speaking at the opening of a post-COVID clinic…

ZAGREB, 21 December, 2021 - The Constitutional Court decided on Tuesday the pandemic protocols are legitimate, rejecting motions to assess the constitutionality of the powers of the national COVID-19 crisis management team, the COVID certificate mandate, and the testing mandate for healthcare and social welfare staff. The decisions were made by a majority vote, with three dissenting opinions. The court once again gave legitimacy to all COVID protocols and said that the crisis management team has the duty, based on available scientific information at the time it makes or amends regulations, to adopt a protocol which it assesses is the least…

ZAGREB, 21 December, 2021 - Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomašević said on Tuesday that an outdoor New Year's Eve celebration in Zagreb's Ban Josip Jelačić Square would most probably be held but that the national COVID-19 response team might make some last-minute decisions as the epidemiological situation is unpredictable. Speaking to reporters after the opening of a post-COVID clinic as part of the city's hospital for lung diseases, Tomašević said that he talked to the head of the COVID-19 response team, Minister of the Interior Davor Božinović, regarding the New Year Eve's celebration in Zagreb. "For the time being most towns…

ZAGREB, 21 December, 2021 - The police in Bjelovar will press misdemeanor charges against a 27-year-old man for urinating on a building housing the offices of the HDZ party branch in Bjelovar and for posting on a social network, under a pseudonym, a video of his act that was later carried by web portals. Without specifying the political party in question, Bjelovar police said on Tuesday the man would be reported for insulting citizens of different political views. Over the past month the local HDZ branch reported several attacks on its offices in Bjelovar, including an act of urination on its offices…

ZAGREB, 21 Dec 2021 - Croatia has registered 2,803 new coronavirus cases and 47 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team reported on Tuesday. Currently, there are 19,477 active cases in the country. Among them are 2,148 infected persons receiving hospital treatment and 263 of them are on ventilators. A total of 18,665 people are self-isolating. Since 25 February 2020, when the first infection with the SARS CoV-2 virus was confirmed in the country, 678,533 people have been registered as having contracted the new virus, of whom 12,090 have died. A total of 646,966 people have recovered, including 2,849 in the last 24 hours. A total of…