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December the 11th, 2021 - A very decent amount of companies have passed through the Rijeka startup incubator, since it was created, and the entrepreneurial ideas seem to just keep on coming. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Ana Blaskovic writes, a regulatory release capsule, a bicycle village, the transformation of trucks into mobile homes for rent, self-service cereal machines, a piano playing learning application for children, a reproductive mental health centre, a platform for managing tailor-made CVs… the Rijeka startup incubator is simply bursting with creative business ideas from the latest generation of users who took to the facility this October. “Twenty teams…

ZAGREB, 11 December, 2021 - A Zagreb County Court judge on Friday extended by a month the pre-trial detention for former minister Gabrijela Žalac and other suspects in the case dubbed Software, in which they are suspected of embezzlement of €1.8 million from the EU and Croatian budgets. "Although we have asked that their pre-trial detention be extended by two months, the investigating judge considers that a month is enough to question another 17 to 18 witnesses," said Tomislav Kamber of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO), on the orders of which Žalac and the other suspects were arrested on 10 November…

ZAGREB, 11 December, 2021 - President and Armed Forces Supreme Commander Zoran Milanović said on Friday that €200 million had disappeared during the purchase of French Rafale fighter jets and that he assumed Prime Minister Andrej Plenković was working on replacing Defence Minister Mario Banožić. "I only hope the jets will not end up costing €1.3 billion, that would be a serious problem... €200 million is gone," Milanović said, explaining that he was talking about €200 million less in projections for the defence system. "The projections were a lie. I did not see any VAT there. It was increased based on the assumption…

ZAGREB, 11 December,2021 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Friday that the government wouldn't publish the contracts for the purchase of 12 Rafale fighter jets from France because they were confidential, and rejected President Zoran Milanović's speculations about the removal of Defence Minister Mario Banožić. "The contracts are confidential, such contracts don't get published, but we can provide all information that the public has to receive," Plenković said after a government session, asked about the government's readiness to publish the contracts it had signed for the purchase of fighter jets, which President Zoran Milanović is calling for. Asked by…

ZAGREB, 11 December, 2021 - Member of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliament Enver Bijedić said on Friday he had filed a criminal report against Croatian President Zoran Milanović for making statements questioning the scale of the Srebrenica genocide. Bijedić is the leader of a small non-parliamentary party called the BiH Social Democrats and he has reported Milanović to the BiH prosecutorial authorities based on amendments to the Criminal Code imposed in late July by former High Representative Valentin Inzko to outlaw the denial of all war crimes confirmed by court rulings. Bijedić found the grounds for reporting Milanović in his statement that…

ZAGREB, 11 December, 2021 - About 16,000 illegal border crossings were registered by the Croatian border police in the first 11 months of this year, which is a drop of 40% on the year, the head of the border administration, Zoran Ničeno, said on Friday evening. A similar drop has been recorded along the entire migrant route, that is, in Slovenia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Ničeno told RTL television, adding that the route was changing and there were now more illegal crossings in Serbia, Romania, Hungary and Austria. The search is still ongoing for a 10-year-old girl who disappeared…

ZAGREB, 11 December, 2021 - If more than 100,000 troops were on the border with Croatia, President Milanović would call the Ukrainian Prime Minister's visit to Zagreb not "charlatanism" but a manifestation of solidarity and friendship, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said in a Twitter post on Friday. President Zoran Milanović this past Thursday described as "plain charlatanism" Prime Minister Andrej Plenković's visit to Ukraine amid high tensions with Russia, saying that Plenković would "flee to Brussels if things get rough" and that "Croatian soldiers won't go there (on the border with Ukraine)". "If more than 100,000 troops were on the border with…

ZAGREB, 11 December, 2021 - The Split County Court has upheld an indictment filed by the USKOK anti-corruption office against former Public Administration Minister Lovro Kuščević of the HDZ party, charged with real estate fraud and perverting the course of justice during his term as head of Nerežišća, a town on the island of Brač. The investigation into Kuščević was launched in September 2019 after he stepped down as Public Administration Minister amid media reports that in the period from 2008 to 2018, during his term as Nerežišća mayor, he had unlawfully obtained HRK 4 million. According to media reports at…

December 11, 2021 - Croatian ice skating pair Lana Petranović and Antonio Souza Kordeira broke their personal record for the second day in a row at the 53rd Golden Pirouette in Sisak.  American pair Audrey Lu and Misha Mitrofanov and Georgian Anastasia Gubanova won the first gold medals at the 53rd Golden Pirouette hosted by the Zibel Ice Hall in Sisak. The Americans jumped from third place to the top of the podium and celebrated with a convincing 195.32 points ahead of Georgian pair Anastasia Metelkina and Danilo Parkman (189.60) and bronze Russians Julia Artemeva and Mikhail Nazarichev (189.29). Croatian pair…

December 10, 2021 - The Institute for Marine Conservation has awarded Brijuni National Park the Blue Park gold award for achieving the highest science-based standards of marine conservation and management, joining Brijuni to a growing network of 21 Blue Park areas around the world designed to protect and regenerate ocean biodiversity. The Institute of Marine Conservation designed the Blue Park Awards to encourage governments to protect the marine world, preserve critical habitats, promote resilience to climate change, and preserve the beauty of our oceans for future generations. The program's goal is to establish an effective network that protects and maintains the…