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ZAGREB, 2 November, 2021 - Croatia will protect 30 percent of the Adriatic Sea under its jurisdiction and plant an additional one million trees annually by 2030, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković told a climate change summit in Glasgow on Tuesday, noting that climate change will irrevocably worsen people's lives, but that more ambitious action can mitigate it. Plenković was speaking at the UN conference on climate change (COP26), where world leaders presented their plans and made pledges to protect the environment. "Croatia intends to compensate the impact of tourists on CO2 emissions by planting more than a million additional trees annually…

November 2, 2021 - Valdas Dambrauskas is the new coach of HNK Hajduk Split. The club today agreed to work with Dambrauskas, who signed a contract until the summer of 2024. Coach Dambrauskas was born in Pakruojis, Lithuania, on January 7, 1977. He has 14 years of football experience behind him. He started at the Fulham, Manchester United, and Brentford Football Academies. His first senior coaching engagement was in the Kingsbury London Tigers, which he led from 2007 to 2010. He then worked for the next two years as the coach of the U-17 and U-19 national teams of Lithuania, and…

ZAGREB, 2 Novmber, 2021 - The Ministry of Justice and Administration has banned the Association of Croatian Defence Force Combatants (UBHOS) because it refused to remove its slogan and salute "For the Homeland Ready" from its statute, the veteran association said on Tuesday. UBHOS said in a press release that they were "unofficially and unlawfully" informed this week that the Ministry of Justice and Administration had issued a decision signed by Minister Ivan Malenica refusing to extend the association's registration pursuant to the Associations Act because the association refused to remove "the military and Party of Rights slogan and salute 'For the…

ZAGREB, 2 November ,2021 - President Zoran Milnaović on Tuesday called out Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman for hypocrisy and "yet another outburst" after the foreign minister revealed the names of some of Milanović's candidates for ambassadorial posts, which the president today denied. The dispute between the president and government over new ambassadors has been ongoing for a year. Some of the names revealed as the president's candidates include former interior minister Ranko Ostojić, former environment protection minister Mihael Zmajlović and former ambassador to France Ivo Goldstein. Former foreign ministers Davor Ivo Stier and Miro Kovač and former diplomat Vladimir Drobnjak have been named…

ZAGREB, 2 November, 2021 - The President of the Republic and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Zoran Milanović, said on Tuesday said he cannot work with Defence Minister Mario Banožić and expects Prime Minister Andrej Plenković to "resolve this problem" and remove the person who has become "a problem for the state." "I can discuss these matters only with the leader of the HDZ (Croatian Democratic Union) and not with Banožić any more. This has become serious and has repercussions for national security and relations with neighbours. Because people who don't know the difference between the truth and lies, and are doing such a…

ZAGREB, 2 November, 2021 - Defence Minister Mario Banožić said in Vukovar on Tuesday it was time to remove President Zoran Milanović from office after they once again clashed over the army and their powers and decisions. Speaking to the press, Banožić said Milanović was "a psychiatric case." Asked if it was time Milanović was removed from office, he said, "Of course it is. It was a long time ago, but look at his conduct. Would you reach a different conclusion than what I said?" He would not say if the ruling HDZ party would initiate the president's impeachment. This morning the two attended a ceremony…

ZAGREB, 2 November, 2021 - The Infobip IT company has concluded a sales contract with the US-based Peerless Network company as well as ensuring a US$ 500 million loan, which places it among reputable IT companies with high growth and big value, Infobip reported on Tuesday. Peerless Network is a global provider of VoIP (Voice over IP) services from Chicago and Infobip expects to take over the company next year once the regulatory procedure and approvals are issued. This is Infobip's fourth acquisition on the US market in less than a year. With this takeover Infobip has ensured a significant presence in…

ZAGREB, 2 November, 2021 - The Democratic Alliance of Croats of Vojvodina, the Croatian minority's political party in Serbia, on Tuesday welcomed an online version of a dossier on crimes against Croats in Vojvodina committed in the 1990s and warned that policies denying or keeping silent about those crimes are still in force in Serbia. The dossier is based on several years of research and was released by the Humanitarian Law Fund, a Serbian regional NGO for human rights which established that a campaign was conducted in Serbia between 1991 and 1995 against the Croat population in Vojvodina. The campaign consisted of expulsion, looting, confiscation of…

ZAGREB, 2 November, 2021 - Forty people have died in Croatia in the past 24 hours as a consequence of COVID-19 and 785 new cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed, the national COVID response team reported on Tuesday. There are currently 20,562 active cases in the country and 1,543 hospitalised patients, with 185 of them on ventilators. In addition, 23,291 people are currently self-isolating. Since 25 February 2020 when the first case of contagion was identified in Croatia, there have been a total of 472,259 positive cases and the death toll now stands at 9,291. A total of 442,406 people…

ZAGREB, 2 November, 2021 - President Zoran Milanović's office said on Monday that Defence Minister  Mario Banožić was undermining the international reputation of Croatia and the Croatian Army with his statements. The president's office was responding to claims by the Defence Ministry earlier in the day that it had prevented an international scandal over the participation of the Honorary and Protection Battalion in a commemoration in Bosnia and Herzegovina earlier this year. The office said that Banožić, "with his lying statements" and the ministry's press release today, "is undermining without precedent" the international reputation of Croatia and the Croatian Army, the relations with…