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November the 17th, 2021 - The issue of Croatian covid certificates is continuing. New rules have been in place since yesterday and now a valid certificate is required not only to enter healthcare and social care institutions, but also to access state and public services. The rules for unvaccinated people who have recovered from the novel coronavirus, however, are still unclear for many. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, as of Tuesday the 16th of November, about 370,000 people employed in the public and state sector will not be able to go to their places of work without valid Croatian covid certificates,…

November the 17th, 2021 - The Split digital agency Locastic has spread its wings far from its native city and even country, with employees dotted all over, from Tunisia to India. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Lucija Spiljak writes, Antonio Peric-Mazar and Marko Maljkovic both had a vision which was to create a company where they'd like to work themselves if they hadn't instead chosen to enter the world of entrepreneurship way back in 2011. ''After 10 years, we still share the same vision,'' say Antonio and Marko, colleagues and friends from their student days who recently celebrated the passing of a decade since…

November 16, 2021 - More good news for Croatian football with the Croatia U21s undefeated in the Euro 2023 qualifiers so far, this time beating Austria away 3:1. The young Croatia national football team continued their Euro 2023 qualifiers against Austria on Monday - and with an away win, Croatia has recorded its sixth victory in the same number of matches in the European Championship qualifiers. Igor Bišćan's team defeated Austria 3:1 (0:2) in a Croatia-fan-dominated Ried. Lukas Kačavenda, Bartol Franjić, and Luka Sučić scored for Croatia, while Romano Schmid scored for Austria.  Croatia was dangerous already in the 10th…

ZAGREB, 16 Nov 2021 - Health Minister Vili Beroš said on Tuesday that the government will relieve Gordan Lauc of his duties as a member of the government's scientific council after he called on citizens to take part in protests against COVID certificates. "We have tried to eliminate any possible discrimination and then someone accuses us of tyranny... I don't think it is good to mix politics with science and the profession. I believe the government will terminate the collaboration with Lauc on the scientific council," Beroš told reporters. In a post on social networks earlier on Tuesday Lauc called…

ZAGREB, 16 Nov 2021 - President Zoran Milanović said on Tuesday that the latest arrests connected with the Agrokor case, including that of former Zagreb County Deputy Prosecutor Mirela Alerić Puklin, who had worked on the case, were "a total embarrassment" for the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor (DORH).   "This is a total embarrassment for DORH. It is quite obvious that they used expert witnesses that they should not have used. This is called a mistrial in the US... the timing, too, is interesting. As the saying goes, they are doing something in order to cover up something," Milanović told reporters. Either Laptoš…

ZAGREB, 16 Nov 2021 - The former owner of the Agrokor agricultural and food conglomerate, Ivica Todorić, said on Tuesday that the indictment against him and his associates for siphoning money out of the company had been withdrawn to cover up the embarrassment of the Prosecutor's Office. "As I have said in many of my public statements since 2017, this indictment against me, my family and my associates, which has been withdrawn today, has nothing to do with reality and the actual state of affairs. It's a piece of junk. The evidence in our possession confirms that it was made…

ZAGREB, 16 Nov 2021 - The number of franchises in Croatia has increased since last year by about 20 per cent to about 220, of which a fifth are domestic franchises, which shows that many see this business model as an opportunity, the 2nd Franchise Forum was told in Zagreb on Tuesday.   The forum was organised by the Croatian Chamber of Commerce (HGK), the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) and the Croatian SMEs agency HAMAG-BICRO. Those who opt for a franchise business, regardless of whether they buy or sell a franchise, often survive longer as a business in the first five years than…

ZAGREB, 16 Nov 2021 - The opposition MOST party said on Tuesday it was starting to collect signatures for a referendum against the COVID certificate mandate to access the workplace and state and public institutions. MOST president Božo Petrov said on Facebook the party had consulted legal experts and that it was formulating the referendum question. MOST "is firmly standing up for the defence of constitutional values" and "will not allow our constitutional rights to be breached by arbitrary decisions" of the national COVID crisis management team "which acts as a para-political body," according to the post. Vice president Nikola Grmoja said…

ZAGREB, 16 Nov 2021 - The majority of Croatian companies are not ready for the green transition, with many not having the money for it, and a good portion of them consider it to be a threat - there are some of the findings of a survey conducted by the Apsolon consultancy and the Croatian Chamber of Commerce (HGK). The results of the survey, covering 192 companies and conducted from 1 July to 30 September this year, were presented at the conference "Doing business in era of green transition."  Presenting the findings, Mirjana Samardžić Novoselec of Apsolon said that companies' readiness to invest in the green…

ZAGREB, 16 Nov 2021 - On Monday, a day before the COVID certificate mandate in public and state services went into force, 892 rapid antigen tests came back positive, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday. The high number of newly-detected positive persons once again proves the point and importance of COVID certificates," Minister Vili Beroš said, adding that without the mandatory testing those people would have spread the infection at work, at home and elsewhere. "That says enough about the extent of the epidemiological damage we prevented in just one day," Beroš said, adding that according to expert estimates, those 892 tests…