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ZAGREB, 26 October, 2021 - The Voice of Entrepreneurs (UGP) association believes that the healthcare reform being proposed by Health Minister Vili Beroš is disastrous for Croatian entrepreneurs, citizens and the economy. UGP is particularly critical towards the sections of the proposals that appeared in media reports on Monday according to which sick leave and maternity leave will not be paid by the Croatian Health Insurance Fund (HZZO), and that young people under the age of 30 will lose the benefits they were entitled to until now. "The question is who is going to pay for sick leave and maternity leave…

ZAGREB, 26 October, 2021 - The European Court of Auditors (ECA) on Tuesday warned of the risk of delays in the absorption of funding for the 2021-2027 financial period due to a significant increase in funds compared to the previous period. "In view of the great challenges that lie ahead of us, we must remain even more vigilant about the financial soundness of the EU”, said ECA President Klaus-Heiner Lehne was quoted as saying. "Over the next seven years, the EU will spend significantly more than in the previous programme period." During the next seven years, the Union will have…

October the 26th, 2021 - Losinj hotels have been recognised once again for their wellness and spa offers, putting this beautiful part of Croatia firmly on the radar of those tourists who opt for that type of holiday, and there are more and more of them. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes, Losinj's popular Hotel Bellevue, a member of the luxury hotel brand Losinj Hotels & Villas, has climbed to the very ''top of the world'' when it comes to spa and wellness offers this year. The Spa Clinic Hotel Bellevue is the winner of the World’s Best Hotel Spa 2021,…

October the 26th, 2021 - The Croatian south is still very much lagging behind the northern part of the country in terms of waste disposal, recycling and proper management. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, the circular economy, ie waste management so that it is almost all completely recovered and reused as a raw material or fuel, has become a principle of development of the European Union's economy, which Croatia is trying to follow. Ambitious EU targets call for at least 70 percent of municipal waste to be recycled by 2030, and for 2025 to ban the disposal of recyclable waste…

October the 26th, 2021 - The Croatian 2022 tourist season could be threatened by something quite different than a global public health crisis, as was the case in 2020 and to a certain extent this year. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, the euphoria of a remarkably successful summer season this year has lasted for just a short time, after the pandemic, the next crisis looks set to hit tourism and is equally uncertain. Global increases in prices and the shortages of energy, goods, materials and products now pose new and very serious threats to the tourism business, and the consequences…

October the 26th, 2021 - Numerous Croatian IT companies, as well as several from other sectors, including food and construction, are among the most interested in working with the Turks. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Brnic writes, the fact that Turkey is an increasingly important economic partner for Croatia has been well and truly confirmed by the data which shows that more than 700 companies are participating in the latest cycle of B2B talks that are being held with Turkey as part of the Croatian Chamber of Commerce's Go Global - Go Virtual project. The talks will run until October the 29th,…

November 4, 2021 - The Mediterranean Diet.  It goes beyond food.  It is based on social harmony and family time.  It's about daily meetings around the table, special events, and festivities, sharing the cooking time and traditional recipes passed down through families. The Adriatic Sea is the northernmost arm of the Mediterranean Sea. And, like all Mediterranean countries, the Croatian coast has a unique way of life that has long been hailed as being immensely healthy, not just for the body, but also for the mind and soul. This lifestyle is based on traditional approaches and attitudes to the world…

ZAGREB, 26 October, 2021 - Croatia's road death toll rose by 37 or 19.2% to 230 fatalities in the first nine months of 2021 in comparison to the corresponding period of 2020, the interior ministry said on Monday. In the first nine months of 2020 there were 193 fatalities. Last weekend, from 22 to 24 October, three people were killed in road accidents, while nine sustained serious and five minor injuries. Nearly 4,500 offences were registered last weekend, and about 10% of them, or 428, were related to driving under the influence of alcohol. The highest blood alcohol concentration, 4.17…

ZAGREB, 26 October, 2021 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Monday that the further efforts to contain the current wave of the COVID pandemic would go into three directions: promoting a booster dose, stepping up inspections of application of indoor mask-wearing rule and possibly online teaching for some schools. After a regular meeting of the leadership of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) on Monday afternoon, Plenković said that Education Minister Radovan Fuchs and local COVID-19 response teams would establish if some of the schools should switch to online teaching and that also the authorities "are thinking of extending the autumn (school)…

October 25, 2021 - To celebrate the Day of the European Heritage 2021, the Science Library Zadar presented their exhibition "UNESCO's Monuments in the Photo Library". The exhibition is supported by the UNESCO Department of the Ministry of culture and media of the Republic of Croatia. Thematically, the exhibition is divided into five parts, each showing the UNESCO monuments in Zadar, Šibenik, Trogir, Split and Dubrovnik. The exhibition consists of around sixty photographs that were taken between the second half of the nineteenth century and the seventies in the twentieth century. You can physically see the exhibition between the 25th…