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Friday, 22 October 2021
Kyriakides Visits Zagreb Children's Hospital's Oncology Institute
ZAGREB, 22 Oct 2021 - European Health and Food Safety Commissioner Stella Kyriakides and Croatian Health Minister Vili Beroš on Friday visited the Zagreb Children's Hospital's hematology and oncology institute. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Kyriakides, who recovered from it, wore a ribbon-shaped silver brooch. According to the European Cancer Organisation, almost a million cancer cases have not been diagnosed because of the pandemic. Last year 2.7 million patients were diagnosed in the EU and 1.3 million have died, including more than 2,000 young ones. Kyriakides said Europe's Beating Cancer Plan envisaged €4 billion for fighting cancer, including €1.25 billion from the EU4Health…
Friday, 22 October 2021
Beyond the Walls: DN-i-R Presents Sustainable Dubrovnik Tourism Direction
October 22, 2021 - Sustainable Dubrovnik tourism was the topic at a workshop in Lazareti today, as the Dubrovnik Digital Nomads-in-Residence case study was presented, along with the city announcing co-working spaces, a co-living space, and the Dubrovnik Digital Nomad card. It has been quite a journey. And we are still only at the beginning. It is just 15 months since the Mayor of Dubrovnik, Mato Frankovic, gave me 30 minutes of his time to hear some ideas we had regarding sustainable Dubrovnik tourism. Half an hour later, we had an agreement to cooperate, and work started the next morning…
Friday, 22 October 2021
Krapina Neanderthal Museum Wins European Cultural Tourism Network Award
ZAGREB, 22 Oct 2021 - The Krapina Neanderthal Museum and Hušnjakovo site have been awarded the prestigious European Cultural Tourism Network (ECTN) Award 2021 in the category for Archaeological Sites and Museums as Cultural Tourism Attractions, the Ministry of Culture and Media reported on Friday. The museum won the award thanks to the excellent modern presentation of its pre-historic, archaeological and anthropological topics, and in particular, because it has the status of an unavoidable cultural-tourism destination in Europe with more than 100,000 visitors a year from around the globe, the ministry said in a press release. The reasoning for the award…
Friday, 22 October 2021
PM: Decision Making on Croatia's Schengen Bid Going According to Plan
ZAGREB, 22 Oct (Hina) - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in Brussels on Friday he expected the decision making process on Croatia's accession to the Schengen area to proceed according to plan. "I have discussed this matter at all levels, with all governments. I think the momentum is slowly gathering for a decision at the level of the Council of the EU," Plenković told reporters on arrival for the continuation of the two-day EU summit. Plenković said that ongoing talks during the Slovenian EU presidency and the next French presidency would be "crucial for achieving Croatia's strategic goal - to…
Friday, 22 October 2021
Croatia Reports More Than 3,000 New COVID-19 Cases for Third Consecutive Day
ZAGREB, 22 Oct 2021 - In the past 24 hours Croatia has registered 3,258 coronavirus cases and 17 related deaths, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Friday. Such a high number of new infections was last reported in April. There are 15,300 active cases, including 997 hospitalised patients, of whom 135 are on ventilators, while 25,359 persons are self-isolating. Croatia has registered 439,447 coronavirus cases to date as well as 8,985 COVID deaths and 415,162 recoveries, including 1,658 in the past 24 hours, while 3,014,840 persons have been tested for the virus, with 10,309 in the past 24 hours. To date 46.37% of the population has been vaccinated, including 55.57%…
Friday, 22 October 2021
Papuk Nature Park Will Have Two New Instructional Trails Until Spring
October 22, 2021 - In the heart of the Papuk Nature Park, 475 meters above sea level, is located the jewel of the Slavonia mountains: Jankovac, where its visitors can now enjoy two new educational trails. By the end of September this year, the Jankovac Forest Park was visited by almost 50,000 visitors, and will soon be richer for two more educational trails, reports HrTurizam. These are two projects co-financed entirely by the European Union from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, approved by the Agency for Payments in Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development, and refers to the type of…
Friday, 22 October 2021
Five Scientific Council Members Distance Themselves from Statements by Gordan Lauc
ZAGREB, 22 Oct 2021 - Five members of the government's Scientific Council on Friday distanced themselves from all statements made by Council member Gordan Lauc about the coronavirus pandemic, notably his latest messages that the pandemic is over and that only elderly people should get vaccinated. "We fully distance ourselves from all statements about the pandemic made by Gordan Lauc since the summer of 2020," says the declaration signed by Andreja Ambriović Ristov, Petra Klepac, Branko Kolarić and academicians Nenad Ban and Igor Rudan. They in particular distanced themselves from Lauc's messages in which he declared the pandemic over or claimed that there…
Friday, 22 October 2021
Croatia Marking International Stuttering Awareness Day
ZAGREB, 22 Oct 2021 - An online seminar on stuttering, at which people who stutter, including Croatia's basketball great Dino Rađa, will speak about their experience, will be held on Friday, on the occasion of the International Stuttering Awareness Day. This was announced by the Zagreb City Health Department, which recalls that despite decades of research, there is still no single answer as to the cause of stuttering. However, a lot is known about factors in the field of genetics (60% of persons who stutter have another family member who stutters), neurophysiology (results of neurological research show that persons who stutter…
Friday, 22 October 2021
450 Free European Train Trips on Offer to Croatia, Here's How to Apply
October the 22nd, 2021 - Fancy some European train trips? Now you can hop aboard and do just that, and for free, thanks to a very popular EU-funded experience which is now back. If there's one thing that the European Union (EU) does that just about everyone loves, it's the allowance of freedom of movement. Travel and tourism was sadly halted during the coronavirus pandemic, and now with the advent of the vaccine, things are beginning to resemble some form of normality as we once knew it, slowly. The much loved DiscoverEU experience is now making a very welcome return,…
Friday, 22 October 2021
Could New Rules Have Negative Effects on Croatian Food Production?
October the 22nd, 2021 - Could brand new regulations and rules determined at the level of the European Union and the European Parliament have a negative effect on Croatian food production and eventually result in a rise in prices? Many consider it a very likely scenario. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes, the European Parliament gave the green light for the ''field to table'' strategy at its plenary session which was held this Tuesday. It involves a package of twenty-seven legislative proposals and policies that will change the ways in which food is produced, processed, bought and consumed across the EU over…
Friday, 22 October 2021
Croatian Entrepreneurship Decently Positioned on Global Monitor (GEM)
October the 22nd, 2021 - Croatian entrepreneurship is very decently positioned on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), which makes a change as Croatia sadly often finds itself at the very bottom of EU rankings for most things. This too, however, has a downside, as a lot of such business moves are made out of necessity rather than basic desire. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, despite the widespread perception of the poor status of Croatian entrepreneurship, according to the intentions to launch a business venture, Croatia is at the very top of the list of EU member states according to the latest…
