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October 7, 2021 - Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez visited Croatia recently and met with Croatian PM Andrej Plenković to talk about deepening diplomatic relations in 2022. Nobody can deny the fact that foreign countries' ambassadors and diplomats are valuable in the day-to-day business of nurturing diplomatic relations with Croatia on various levels (political, cultural, economic, and more). But it's even more special when political representatives of other countries actually come to Croatia for an official visit. The latest such instance was the visit of Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez. His meeting with the Croatian PM Andrej Plenković was the big story in…

ZAGREB, 7 Oct 2021 - The Arhibau fair, dedicated to the culture of building and sustainable development and showing the best Croatia has to offer in construction and architecture, was opened on Thursday. The topic of the fair, open until the 9th, is "Future after the crisis based on the New European Bauhaus initiative". The event was opened by Prime Minister Andrej Plenković, who said it was a place where one could see the things kick-starting development processes in this decade, which he said would be a  crucial decade for Croatia's development. As a stakeholder in the Paris climate agreement, Croatia is committed…

ZAGREB, 7 Oct 2021 - The Croatian capital city of Zagreb remained dark red, while the rest of the country was red on the new epidemiological map of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), issued on Thursday. Zagreb turned dark red last Thursday. Slovenia, Estonia, and Lithuania are dark red completely, while the most favorable epidemiological situation considering the COVID-19 incidence rates is in the Czech Republic and Poland this week. The color red means a 14-day incidence of 75-200 cases of the infection with coronavirus per 100,000 inhabitants, with the share of positive cases exceeding 4%, and an…

October 7, 2021 - The 2021 Olive Picking World Championship kicks off this week in Postira on Brac, with the usual strong international lineup, and a new kid on the block - Team Digital Nomads. With the main tourist season coming to a close, the thoughts of most Dalmatians turn to the fields, and their precious olive groves.  But for one small part of the island of Brac, a unique idea back in 2017 combined tourism with the traditional olive harvest.  Postira launched the Olive Picking World Championship four years ago, an event which has grown in stature (and international…

October 7, 2021 - The 4-day International Food Festival Taste the Mediterranean officially kicked off last night and was attended by many prominent personalities including Oscar-winning Bosnian director Danis Tanović, Split Mayor Ivica Puljak, screenwriter/director Nikola Kuprešanin and top chefs from 8 Mediterranean countries! Despite heavy rain, the opening of the TTM Festival was a huge success. The famous Split fish market was almost unrecognisable as chef Zlatko Marinović and his excellent team from the restaurant Noštromo magically transformed the usually sooty place to a sophisticated dinner venue. The participants and invited guests were greeted with welcome drinks featuring The…

October 7, 2021 - Today is two years since I arrived in Croatia, without imagining that it would be my new home. In the latest article of the Croatian Diaspora in South America series, I share ten reasons why I think Croatia is an ideal and easy to adapt destination for those coming from South America. On a day like today, but two years ago, I landed in Zagreb without knowing that Croatia would be the country where I would stay to live, leaving behind twenty-four years of invaluable experiences, moments, lessons, and friendships made in my country, Peru. Now…

ZAGREB, 7 Oct 2021 - In the past 24 hours, 1,748 coronavirus cases and eight related deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Thursday. There are 9,299 active cases, including 823 hospitalized patients, of whom 119 are on ventilators, while 16,379 persons are self-isolating. Croatia has logged 413,665 coronavirus cases to date, 8,730 deaths, and 395,636 recoveries, including 1,254 in the past 24 hours. Also, 2,885,071 persons have been tested for the virus, including 10,592 in the past 24 hours. 54% of adults vaccinated To date, 45.39% of the population has been vaccinated against COVID,…

October 7, 2021 -  A female Lošinj dolphin mourning the loss of her offspring saw scientists visibly heartbroken and showed once again that animals have feelings which run just as deep as our own. The clear and beautiful waters of the Croatian Adriatic bring a lot of joy and relaxation to people from all over the world, either by jumping and swimming in the soft waters in the hot summer months or by simply observing and breathing in the healthy air either from deck or land on less sunny days. However, like any other place, the Adriatic can be a…

October 7, 2021 - Fresh details about the terrible accident of Jennifer Welsh, the 22-year-old British tourist in a coma after falling from a Dubrovnik balcony. This article has been updated at 15:30 on October 8 - see below. After British media reported the story of Sara Walsh launching a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for her sister Jennifer after a horrific accident in Croatia, more details are emerging about the incident.  Ms Walsh had apparently fallen from a balcony on Saturday, October 2 while on holiday in Dubrovnik and was left with a bleed on the brain, two skull fractures,…

October 7, 2021 - The last time a Mediterranean monk seal was seen in Croatian waters was in 2011, near Proboj. In the past, the species was hunted vilely, and therefore its small population and the rarity of its sighting. Ten years later, fishermen have once again seen one swimming in the waters of Pag. A Mediterranean monk seal was spotted in the waters of the island of Pag, writes Morski.hr. According to the information of several fishermen, the Mediterranean monk seal was seen in the Pag Gate at the junction of the Pag Bay and the Velebit Channel, and in…