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ZAGREB, 3 Dec 2021 - The Council of Europe's European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) issued a report on Friday accusing Croatia of the severe ill-treatment of migrants by the police and the obstruction of cooperation. The CPT  published a report on its ad hoc visit to Croatia from 10 to 14 August 2020, in particular to the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), "to examine treatment and safeguards afforded to migrants deprived of their liberty by the Croatian police." The Ministry of the Interior said on Friday that the CPT report was…

ZAGREB, 3 Dec 2021 - The EIZ Online Vacancy Index has shown for the seventh consecutive month that labour demand has exceeded its pre-pandemic level, the Institute of Economics, Zagreb (EIZ) said on Friday.  The worsened epidemiological situation did not halt activities on the labour market as labour demand exceeded the 2020 and 2019 levels, it said. "The OVI index for November 2021 shows that labour demand is some 23 percent higher compared to the pre-pandemic November 2019. This is the seventh consecutive month in which labour demand is higher than in pre-pandemic months," EIZ said. It said that the…

ZAGREB, 3 Dec 2021 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković arrived in Montenegro on Friday for a one-day visit during which he will attend a Central European Initiative (CEI) summit and meet with representatives of the Croatian community. The CEI was launched in Budapest in 1989, following the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the aim of assisting central and eastern European countries in joining the European Union. The initial four members were Austria, Hungary, Italy and Yugoslavia. Austria has in the meantime withdrawn from this organisation, which now has 17 members. Apart from the countries of the former Yugoslavia, the…

ZAGREB, 3 Dec 2021 -  Deputy Parliament Speaker Željko Reiner sent a message on the occasion of International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Friday, recalling that more than half a million disabled persons live in Croatia. The disabled account for 12% of the total population, which is almost three times the population of Split, Reiner said in his message. "It is up to us to ensure that disabled persons have access to all civil, political, social, cultural and economic rights," Reiner said at the start of Friday's sitting of the Sabor. "May marking this day fulfil its objective and contribute…

ZAGREB, 3 Dec 2021 - In the past 24 hours, Croatia has registered 4,521 new cases of coronavirus and 53 related deaths, the national COVID response team reported on  Friday. There are currently 31,649 active cases, including 2,400 hospitalised patients, 313 of whom are on ventilators, while 26,494 people are self-isolating. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, a total of 623,776 cases of the novel coronavirus have been registered and the death toll has climbed to 11,096 while 581,031 people have recovered from the contagion, including 5,422 in the past 24 hours. To date, a total of 3,489,551 tests have been conducted, including 12,073 in…

ZAGREB, 3 Dec 2021 - After a two-year hiatus, Zagreb is hosting two international cat shows this weekend, organised by the Croatian Federation of Feline Societies (SFDH). The shows will take place at the King Cross Jankomir shopping centre in west Zagreb on 4 and 5 December, and visitors will be able to see over 120 cats and 16 breeds. On display will be the Exotic cat, Persian cat, Ragdoll, Birman, American Curl, Maine Coon, Neva Masquerade, Siberian cat, Selkirk Rex, Bengal cat, British Longhair and British Shorthair, Sphynx, Burmese cat, Russian Blue and the Domestic Longhair. "This is an excellent response…

December 3, 2021 - Croatia advanced to the Davis Cup final after topping Serbia in the doubles match in Madrid on Friday!  After Borna Gojo took the lead against Serbia in the Davis Cup semifinals, the world's first tennis player Novak Djokovic defeated Marin Cilic 6:4, 6:2 and tied the score at 1:1, leaving the doubles match to decide the Davis Cup final team.  Several dozen Croatian fans arrived in Madrid on Friday from various parts of Europe, including Sweden and Ireland. In the first duel of the day, Borna Gojo defeated Dušan Lajović.  "I had control of the match…

December the 3rd, 2021 - After becoming the very first Croatian unicorn last year as a domestic IT company that exceeded $1 billion in value, this year has been equally dynamic for Infobip. An Infobip investment is also pushing them closer and closer to another big goal. As Poslovni Dnevnik/VL/Zoran Vitas writes, a few weeks ago, the Vodnjan giant took over another American company, Peerless Network, a global provider of Voice over IP services, and then achieved a $500 million loan where Morgan Stanley was the chief financial advisor. An Infobip investment of half a million US dollars was announced by…

December the 3rd, 2021 - The Croatian unemployment rate from the Istrian peninsula all the way to Slavonia in the Easternmost part of the country varies enormously. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Jadranka Dozan writes, the registered Croatian unemployment rate dropped down to 7 percent back in September after a very tough period caused by the pandemic in 2020. Of 1.7 million economically active individuals who make up the Croatian population, there were 119,000 unemployed persons. However, behind that average rate at the county level is a very wide range indeed. According to the latest CBS data, of the 97,000 economically active members…

December the 3rd, 2021 - The Omicron variant, a new variant of concern (VOC) which first appeared in Southern Africa has begun spreading across the world, with cases having already appeared across Europe. The Croatian Institute of Public Health (CNIPH) has called upon a certain group of people to come and get coronavirus tests. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, due to the emergence of yet another new variant of the novel coronavirus, which has been named Omicron, the Croatian Institute of Public Health is asking for all people who have recently spent time in several Southern African nations to come and…