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ZAGREB, 20 October, 2021 - The reform of local government through functional mergers of municipalities with poor administrative and fiscal capacities is a measure that has been announced for years in different electoral and government programmes, Večernji List newspaper said on Wednesday. The idea is for several smaller municipalities to combine the work they would have difficulty financing by themselves and manage it from a single shared office. But first it should be seen for which municipalities and which types of work this would be cost-effective, the newspaper said. For this purpose, the Ministry of Public Administration signed an agreement…

ZAGREB, 20 October, 2021 - Croatian Public Health Institute director Krunoslav Capak said after a meeting of the Scientific Council on Tuesday that they did not discuss extending the use of COVID certificates to other sectors of society, but that the matter was likely to be addressed because of neighbouring countries. "We did not discuss that, there is no plan about that. But if you look at the countries around us, western European countries, you will see that they are increasingly using COVID certificates as a form of relative pressure on persons who are not vaccinated, because people who have…

October the 20th, 2021 - The Croatian eWyse e-learning company has been doing excellently, with a massive 97 percent of its revenue being earned on foreign markets. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Lucija Spiljak writes, Martina Osmak, the operations director of the Croatian eWyse e-learning company explained that up until fairly recently, digital learning was considered for use only for occupational training and the like, but people are becoming more and more aware of the need for this form of training for new employees, the transfer of knowledge about products and/or services, and even for the purpose of making sales (in the sense…

October the 20th, 2021 - Croatian fiscalised receipts and their amounts have provided much more than a mere glimmer of hope following an uncertain and difficult economic period, with the values exceeding that of pre-pandemic, record 2019. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the total value of Croatian fiscalised receipts last week exceeded four billion kuna (4.1), which improved the amount from the same period last year by 22 percent or 743.7 million kuna. Data from the Tax Administration also shows that in the period from the 11th to the 17th of October, when compared to the same week back in 2020,…

October the 20th, 2021 - The Croatian State Attorney's Office's indictment against former Agrokor boss Ivica Todoric, as well as fourteen of his former accomplices, remains unconfirmed to this day. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the indictment of the State Attorney's Office in the Agrokor case against the former owner Ivica Todoric and fourteen other defendants charged with varying forms of abuse of the former company worth hundreds of millions of kuna has not been confirmed yet, and now it has become questionable whether the key evidence is even legal, as reported by Jutarnji list. The High Criminal Court Chamber, chaired…

ZAGREB, 20 October, 2021 - PM Andrej Plenković and the Deputy Chairman of the House of Peoples of the Parliament of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Dragan Čović, agreed at a meeting in Zagreb on Tuesday it was necessary to change BiH's electoral law to ensure legitimate representation and equality of the constituent peoples. They discussed BiH's path to European Union membership, cooperation between Croatia and BiH in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, changes to BiH's electoral legislation and successfully completed projects, such as the recently opened Svilaj bridge and the Gradiška bridge, Plenković's office said in a press release. "The electoral law of Bosnia…

October the 20th, 2021 - Following the recent Croatian Uber driver strike which saw drivers across the country refer to themselves as ''digital slaves'' and voice their clear dissatisfaction, arrears have been paid out. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, the union of digital platform workers assessed the recent Croatian Uber driver strike as having been successful, although they don't have the exact data on the number of drivers across the country who participated in it. The strike was announced last Friday due to delays in payments to drivers from the company, and lasted from 07:00 to 10:00, without blocking the…

ZAGREB, 20 October, 2021 - Ruling HDZ party whip Branko Bačić said on Tuesday that under the changes to the Post-Earthquake Reconstruction Act, the cost of structural renovation would be fully covered by the state and local and regional government units. Bačić also noted that structural renovation would also include properties that were not legalised but were possible to legalise. Speaking to reporters after a meeting of the ruling coalition, Bačić said that they had been informed in detail by Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets Minister Darko Horvat about the proposed amendments to the law on the reconstruction of buildings…

ZAGREB, 20 October, 2021 - Croatians registered with the digital platform of the Conference on the Future of Europe, a place where they can present their comments and ideas about the EU, are mostly interested in the topic "EU in the world", the European Parliament said on Tuesday. The Conference on the Future of Europe, a series of public debates, is an attempt by the European Commission, the Council of the EU and the European Parliament to deal with euro-skepticism in many member states, such as Poland and the United Kingdom, and to show citizens of the 27 member states that their opinion…

ZAGREB, 20 October, 2021 - The new Labour Act will regulate platform work and will seek to reduce all forms of precarious work, undeclared work and unfair competition, Labour and Pension System Minister Josip Aladrović said in an interview with the HRT public broadcaster on Tuesday evening. An estimated 30-40,000 workers, mostly young people, engage in platform work in Croatia, he said. Responding to the interviewer's remark that no EU country has managed to regulate this kind of work, Aladrović said that Croatia would be the second country in the EU after Ireland to do so. "We expect to be…