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November 3, 2021 - Things are looking good in the capital this offseason, as there will be 11 weekly Lufthansa flights to Zagreb from Germany in November, and Air France will increase capacity to the capital from December 1!  German national airline Lufthansa will operate 11 times a week between Frankfurt and Zagreb this month, reports Croatian Aviation.  Namely, Lufthansa will operate between Zagreb and Frankfurt daily, on certain days, and twice a week. The Munich-Zagreb line is still suspended, and at this moment Lufthansa may only re-establish this line in the summer flight schedule next year. Although Lufthansa operated…

ZAGREB, 3 November, 2021 - An association of Homeland War veterans in Vukovar-Srijem County said on Tuesday evening that President Zoran Milanović had intentionally shifted the attention to political one upmanship from the honouring of war victims during the commemoration in the Lužac suburb of Vukovar on Tuesday morning.  The association, which is called the Association of Patriotic War Volunteers and Veterans of the Republic of Croatia, says in a statement that the President's "political performance" at Lužac gave precedence to political rows over the sacrifice of local 69 inhabitants who were killed in Lužac in 1991. The commemoration at Lužac was neither the…

ZAGREB, 2 November, 2021 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Tuesday President Zoran Milanović's statements about the defence minister were primitive and brutal insults, adding that all problems would be discussed in the National Security Council on 9 November. "I want to hear first hand what the problems are and try to resolve them," Plenković said in Glasgow, where he was attending the UN conference on climate change (COP26). Commenting on Defence Minister Mario Banožić's statement that it was time to remove President Zoran Milanović from office, Plenković said the minister of defence hadn't said that but that it…

November 3, 2021 - The first Croatian to take part in the Transat Jacques Vabre transatlantic yachting race, in the famous Class 40, will not be one of the best Croatian sailors, but Olympic skier Ivica Kostelić, one of the world's best in his time.  The race, which is traditionally run from Europe to South America on coffee traders' routes and sponsored by the French coffee processor of the same name, will include Kostelić and French partner Calliste Antoine, a sailor who already has two Transatlantic races behind him, reports Vecernji List. "He was with me at the Rolex Fastnet Race…

November 3, 2021 - Young Croatian diaspora footballers are increasingly choosing to play for the homeland instead of where they were born.  Having the honor of wearing Croatia's famous red-and-white checks is not to be taken lightly, and Ivan Rakitić may be considered a pioneer for this generation of footballers after choosing to play for Croatia over his birth country of Switzerland.  Today, the diaspora is once again reshaping the ranks of the Croatia national football team. Recall, Josip Stanišić from Bayern and Luka Sučić from Salzburg have already made their debut for the A-team. In the younger categories, there…

November the 3rd, 2021 - The well known flight company EasyJet is considering introducing flights to two more Croatian cities for the very first time as the World Travel Market kicks off in the British capital. Could EasyJet Rijeka and even Osijek flights be on the cards in the not so distant future? Maybe. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, promising announcements for Croatian tourism are coming from the World Travel Market (WTM), which started a couple of days ago in London. According to the director of the Croatian National Tourist Board (HTZ), Kristjan Stanicic, who met with representatives of some of…

November the 3rd, 2021 - The Croatian Maistra company has done excellently this year, despite the dire circumstances that have dominated since the beginning of 2020. They even exceeded when compared to what was considered to be the record year of 2019. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Jadranka Dozan writes, at the end of October 2021, the quarterly or nine-month reports of the leading Croatian hotel and tourism companies were mostly completed. They provided more concrete insights into how the tourist season in general has been, how it has affected business results across this economic sector and where they are in relation to…

November the 3rd, 2021 - Blockchain technology is one of those things on everyone's lips of late, and while some tilt their heads in confusion, others are taking advantage. Could Blockchain tech reveal just how green the Croatian LNG Terminal actually is? Perhaps. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, gas is a generally accepted transitional energy source between the fossil and green eras, and in addition to the gas transported by standard pipelines, there's more and more gas from LNG. It is LNG that is increasingly the subject of analyses that question whether its use is really "transitional green" or whether…

November the 3rd, 2021 - The old saying that you just can't get the staff couldn't ring more true than it does in Croatia. The country is lacking when it comes to employees across the majority of sectors, and Croatian computer scientists, despite the country's IT boom, are in such short supply that students are being given jobs. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the situation with both the Croatian economy and the demographic picture isn't news to anyone who doesn't live under a rock, but this is especially evident when it comes to Croatian computer scientists. Companies can’t find enough of them…

Continuing our series on Croatian emigration to Ireland, a look at the topic that drives most people to emigrate in the first place: jobs, paychecks and everything in between   To paraphrase a pop art icon, just what is it that makes Ireland so different, so appealing? To any Croatian person frustrated with their miserable economic prospects, it’s always been all those jobs that are readily available. It’s so easy to find work!, people will tell you. And it pays well! After three years in Ireland, I have a bit of perspective in this regard, so... Let’s unpack that.  …