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Monday, 13 December 2021
Catholic and Islamic Dignitaries Thank Croatian PM for Help to BiH
ZAGREB, 13 Dec 2021 - The Catholic Archbishop of Sarajevo, Vinko Puljić, and the Grand Mufti of Bosnia's Islamic community, Husein Kavazović, thanked on Monday Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković for the help his government had provided to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Croatian prime minister, who is on an official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, after a meeting with the country's executive and legislative authorities' officials, also met separately, behind closed doors, with the leaders of three major religious communities, including Cardinal Puljić, Reis Kavazović and the Bosnian prelate of the Serbian Orthodox Church, Hrizostom Jević. The Archdiocese of Sarajevo said in a…
Monday, 13 December 2021
ZSE Main Indices Dip but Liquidity Up
ZAGREB, 13 Dec 2021 - The main Zagreb Stock Exchange indices decreased on Monday, the Crobex by 0.02% to 2,016 points and the Crobex10 by 0.11% to 1,232 points. Regular turnover was HRK 11.5 million, 4.3 million higher than last Friday. The most traded stock was the HT telecom, turning over HRK 3.11 million. It closed at HRK 183 per share, down 0.27%. Forty-four stocks traded today, with 16 gainings and 14 losing in price, while 14 were stable. (€1 = HRK 7.524022) For more, check out our dedicated business section.
Monday, 13 December 2021
Croatia PM: BiH Crisis Should Be Solved Through Agreement, Starting With Election Law
ZAGREB, 13 Dec 2021 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Monday the crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovina should be solved through talks and agreements based on the Dayton peace agreement which, he added, would defuse tensions and ensure equal rights for all its inhabitants. He was speaking to the press in Sarajevo after meeting with the leaders of both houses of the BiH Parliament, including HDZ BiH party president Dragan Čović and SDA president Bakir Izetbegović. Plenković said that as a friendly country with great respect for BiH, Croatia wants to advance cooperation through political dialogue in order to support reforms leading…
Monday, 13 December 2021
COVID-19 Vaccine for Children Arrives in Croatia
ZAGREB, 13 Dec 2021 - A total of 48,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses arrived in Croatia on Monday for vaccination of children aged 5-11 and will be distributed to local public health institutions in the coming days. "Children aged 5-11 will receive the vaccine in two doses, like adults, but the vaccine for children contains a third of the dose for adults," said the deputy director of the Croatian Public Health Institute (HZJZ), Ivana Pavić Šimetin. Vaccination is recommended especially for immunocompromised children. Local public health institutes will organize vaccination through pediatric clinics and schools and general medical practitioners. About 6,400…
Monday, 13 December 2021
Plenković: Bosnia and Herzegovina Has No Greater Friend Than Croatia
ZAGREB, 13 Dec 2021 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said during a visit to Sarajevo on Monday that the bonds between Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina are unbreakable and that Croatia remains Bosnia and Herzegovina's greatest friend and its advocate in the European Union. Plenković is leading a government delegation on an official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina. On arriving in Sarajevo on Monday morning, he met with his counterpart, the Chairman of the Council of Ministers, Zoran Tegeltija, and his ministers. The visit comes at a time when Bosnia and Herzegovina is facing the biggest internal crisis since the…
Monday, 13 December 2021
Milanović Decorates Participants in Croatian Spring
ZAGREB, 13 Dec 2021 - President Zoran Milanović decorated some participants of the Croatian Spring on Monday with the Grand Order of King Dmitar Zvonimir with Sash and the Croatian Morning Star for their outstanding contribution to Croatia's independence and integrity as well as to the building and progress of the Croatian state. The high decoration was awarded to Dražen Budiša, Ivan Zvonimir Čičak and Goran Dodig and posthumously to Jozo Ivičević Bakulić, Ljudevit Jonke, Ante Paradžik, Hrvoje Šošić, Marko and Vladimir Veselica. On this day fifty years ago the arrests had already begun and the repression by the former state was in full swing. Intellectuals,…
Monday, 13 December 2021
DZS: Number of Building Permits Isued in October Up 12.1% Y-o-Y
ZAGREB, 13 Dec 2021 - A total of 1,031 building permits were issued in Croatia in October 2021, which is an increase of 12.1% compared with October 2020, the National Bureau of Statistics (DZS) said on Monday. By type of construction, 891 permits (86.4%) were issued for buildings and 140 permits (13.6%) were issued for other structures, such as roads, railways, pipelines, bridges, and sports grounds. The number of building permits issued for buildings was 17.9% higher than in October last year, while the number of building permits issued for other structures was 14.6% lower. The value of works envisaged…
Monday, 13 December 2021
Why Are Croatians Not Getting Vaccinated?
ZAGREB, 13 Dec 2021 - People who think that the risk of COVID-19 is small are the most reluctant to get vaccinated, a study approved for publication in the Croatian Medical Journal shows. The study, written by sociologists Dragan Bagić from the Zagreb Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Adrijana Šuljok and Branko Ančić from the Institute for Social Research, is part of a project by the Croatian Science Foundation called "Resilience of Croatian society against the COVID-19 pandemic", the Jutarnji List daily wrote on Monday. The purpose of the study was to establish who refuses to get vaccinated…
Monday, 13 December 2021
Croatia Confirms 453 New Coronavirus Cases, 47 Deaths
ZAGREB, 13 Dec 2021 - Croatia has registered 453 new coronavirus cases and 47 COVID-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus crisis response team reported on Monday. Currently, there are 21,581 active cases in the country. Among them are 2,300 infected people receiving hospital treatment, including 326 who are on ventilators, and 20,029 persons are self-isolating. To date, 654,655 people have been registered as having contracted the SARS CoV-2 virus, of whom 11,666 have died and 621,408 have recovered, including 3,926 in the last 24 hours. A total of 3,580,821 people have so far been tested for…
Monday, 13 December 2021
Split Winter Tourism Roundtable - Unity, Openness, Progress
December 13, 2021 - Today, at 10:00, the Split Winter Tourism Roundtable was held on the initiative of Total Croatia News and was realized by the Caterers Association in Split and Jasmina Krušić of Chops Grill on the topic of extending the summer season through the month of November. The roundtable was chaired by Michael Freer, a Brit with a Croatian address and director of the Digital Nomads Association of Croatia. All stakeholders shared their previous experiences and suggestions in which direction to act in order to continuously connect the summer season with Advent during this time. Despite the complex…
Monday, 13 December 2021
Croatian Vaccination Tourism Continuing for Russian Visitors
December the 13th, 2021 - Croatian vaccination tourism, which might sound quite amusing for many considering the relatively unimpressive vaccination rate of the domicile population, is going well for the nationals of the Russian federation who are arriving on special flights. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, among the countries chosen by the Russians in which to be vaccinated against the novel coronavirus is the Republic of Croatia, which fully enabled the vaccination of foreign, non resident nationals since mid-July. The media have already written about Russian citizens in queues at vaccination points, and the Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ) recently confirmed…
