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Thursday, 14 October 2021
Journalists Call for Urgent Amendments to Public Broadcaster Law
ZAGREB, 14 October, 2021 - The farcical call for applications for the HRT public broadcaster's director general shows the need for urgently amending the HRT Act, the Croatian Journalists Association's (HND) Croatian Television branch and the Croatian Journalists Trade Union (SNH) said on Thursday. They accused the government and Culture and Media Minister Nina Obuljen Koržinek of inaction. The Andrej Plenković cabinet had enough time, the law could have but has not been amended, for which the Culture and Media Ministry, with the minister at the helm, is also responsible, the HND and the SNH said in a press release. They said they could…
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Minister: Household Gas Prices in Croatia Will Not Change until 1 April 2022
ZAGREB, 14 October, 2021 - Economy Minister Tomislav Ćorić told a news conference on Thursday that household gas prices in Croatia would not change until 1 April 2022. The correction of the price of gas supplies for households can be expected after 1 April 2022, the minister said, adding that "certain actions in the coming period and bringing more order and stabilisation to gas prices on the global market will result in a much lower gas price rise (in Croatia) than the hikes affecting residents of most EU member states currently." Asked by reporters to comment on Zagreb's Gradska Plinara, the city-run company…
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Croatian PM Plenković: Nobody Will Pin Sanader on Me!
ZAGREB, 14 October, 2021 - Prime Minister and Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) president Andrej Plenković said on Thursday he did not intend to apologise for someone else's sins from a time when he was not a member of the ruling party. "There was one leader, Ivo Sanader, who ran the HDZ, who, it was found in legal proceedings, abused his office, which resulted in the responsibility of the legal person, the HDZ. The one responsible for that should answer for it," he told the press when asked about yesterday's Supreme Court ruling against the HDZ and its former president Sanader. "I, as president…
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Croatian Government Limits Petrol to HRK 11.10, Diesel to HRK 11.00
ZAGREB, 14 October, 2021 - The Croatian government passed a decree on Thursday limiting the retail price of petrol to HRK 11.10 (€1.48) per litre and the price of diesel to HRK 11.00 (€1.46) per litre for the next 30 days. Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said that the aim of this move was to protect consumers. "Considering the present economic situation, the unpredictability of petroleum prices on the global market and the impact of fuel prices on total economic activity and citizens' living standards, and in order to ensure further economic recovery, the government has decided to make use of the option…
Thursday, 14 October 2021
CIHT Conference to Gather International Health Tourism Experts in Crikvenica
October 14, 2021 - The region's most influential health tourism conference, the Crikvenica International Health Tourism Conference (CIHT Conference), will be held on November 4 and 5, 2021, for the ninth year in a row at the Hotel Katarina in Selce. The organizers are the Crikvenica Tourist Board and the Kvarner Health Tourism Cluster. This year in a hybrid edition, the conference is traditionally held in English and will bring together world-renowned experts in the fields of health, tourism, marketing, and education, to review the latest trends in health tourism, exchange experiences, and find new ways to communicate in these pandemic…
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Tastes of Croatian Tradition Days Return in November, 110 Restaurants Participating
October 14, 2021 - Tastes of Croatian Tradition returns for its second edition next month after the pandemic brought the culinary event to a halt last year. Representatives of ten counties attended the council for "Tastes of Croatian Tradition," hosted by the Brod-Posavina County Tourist Board and held at Salaš Savus in Bukovlje near Slavonski Brod. After a one-year break due to the coronavirus pandemic, it was agreed at the session that the Taste of Croatian Tradition Days will be held from November 15 to 28, 2021. As expected, in this second edition of the event, about 110 catering establishments…
Thursday, 14 October 2021
23rd Restaurant Week in Croatia Delights Foodies from October 15 to 24
October 14, 2021 - The 23rd Restaurant Week in Croatia returns on Friday, October. 15, where participating restaurants around the country offer 3-course menus for promotional prices! Restaurant Week returns to Croatia for its 23rd edition on October 15, 2021. The special event is a chance for foodies around the country to enjoy three-course menus at various participating restaurants for 100/125 kuna, during both lunch dinner. The 23rd edition of this event will be held from October 15 to 24. So, what is Restaurant Week anyway? Restaurant Week is the idea of Željka Marjanović and Ozren Drobnjak, who wanted to…
Thursday, 14 October 2021
COVID-19 Testing and Treatment Has So Far Costed HRK 2.1 bn, Health Minister Says
ZAGREB, 14 Oct 2021 - Health Minister Vili Beroš said in Parliament on Thursday that HRK 2.31 billion had been paid from contributions for compulsory health insurance for COVID-19 testing and treatment in the period from the start of the coronavirus pandemic to the end of August 2021. HRK 2.31 billion was paid by the Croatian Health Insurance Institute, Beroš said while presenting a quarterly report on measures taken to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Commenting on concern about the nation's state of health, the minister said that contacts between citizens and their general practitioners had dropped by only 1.9% and that the number…
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Opposition Says Croatia Lacks Clear Strategy to Fight COVID-19
ZAGREB, 14 Oct 2021 - The parliamentary Opposition on Thursday reiterated that Croatia does not have a clear strategy to fight the coronavirus pandemic, expressing dissatisfaction with the way the crisis is being managed and calling for changing it. "The attitude to COVID-19 has to change drastically. If the current situation continues, we will all end up on sedatives," said Marijan Pavliček of the Croatian Sovereignists ahead of a debate on the government's report on the impact of epidemiological measures taken in the period from June to the end of August. Pavliček believes that over the past year and a half Croatians…
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Croatia Logs 1,851 New Coronavirus Cases, 18 Deaths
ZAGREB, 14 Oct 2021 - Croatia has registered 1,851 new coronavirus cases and 18 COVID-19-related deaths in the last 24 hours, the national coronavirus response team said on Thursday morning. Currently, there are 9,620 active cases in the country. These include 871 infected people who are receiving hospital treatment, of whom 122 are placed on ventilators. Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in Croatia, 422,908 people have been registered as having contracted the novel virus, of whom 8,847 have died and 404,441 have recovered, including 1,305 in the last 24 hours. 18,890 people are currently self-isolating.…
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Average Monthly Pay in Zagreb at €1,082
ZAGREB, 14 Oct 2021 - The average net pay in legal entities in Zagreb in July 2021 was HRK 8,130 (€1,082), an increase of 5.4% from July 2020, according to data from the city department for strategic planning and development. The average wage in the capital city was HRK 1,084 higher than the national average, which totaled HRK 7,046. The highest average monthly net pay in legal entities in Zagreb was paid in oil and natural gas extraction (HRK 13,259) and the lowest in the production of leather and related products (HRK 4,412). The average monthly gross pay in legal entities in Zagreb…
