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ZAGREB, 3 Oct, 2021 - One of Croatia's leading IT companies, Infinum, continues to expand into new markets and is opening an office in Podgorica, expecting a 25% growth this year, Infinum chief operating officer Nikola Kapraljević told Hina. "2020 was marked by global chaos caused by coronavirus, but despite the difficulties, people found a way forward and technology played a key role, so we also spent much of the year developing new processes, tools and systems. We continued to cooperate with most clients, and our teams have the opportunity to work on interesting and innovative solutions in health care, education, renewable…

October 3, 2021 - Briton Stephen Williams, a member of the Bahrain Victorious team, is the winner of the 2021 CRO Race which ended on Sunday. In the last, sixth stage on the roads of Zagreb County and the capital, from Samobor to Zagreb (157.5 kilometers), Williams took second place behind the Dutchman Tim van Dijke (Jumbo-Visma) and thus defended the leader's red shirt in the overall standings, which he took over with a stage victory in Opatija on Saturday, reports HRT. Up to six kilometers before the finish, Williams could ride comfortably in the main group, but after entering the…

ZAGREB, 3 Oct, 2021 - An agreement on cooperation in drafting and implementing the Vinkovci urban development strategy for the financial period 2021-2027, worth at least €25 million, was signed in this eastern city earlier this week by the mayors of Vinkovci, Otok and nine adjacent municipalities. Besides Vinkovci, as the centre of the urban area, and the city of Otok, the agreement was signed by the municipalities of Andrijaševci, Ivankovo, Jarmina, Nijemci, Nuštar, Privlaka, Stari Jankovci, Stari Mikanovci and Vođinci. This agreement has opened up new opportunities for the city of Vinkovci and the entire urban area, said Vinkovci Mayor Ivan…

ZAGREB, 3 Oct, 2021 - Additional minority elections are being held in Croatia on Sunday, with 131,000 voters electing 90 members of local councils and regional assemblies, and in Pazin, the administrative seat of Istria County, an early election is being held for the 13-seat city council. The additional elections are held in 16 counties and the City of Zagreb, at 565 polling stations, and most of them are in Sisak-Moslavina County (84) and Vukovar-Srijem County (69), while there is only one in Split-Dalmatia County. There are 490 candidates on 108 slates running in the elections. The additional elections are…

ZAGREB, 3 Oct, 2021 - Croatia has registered 944 new coronavirus cases and 14 COVID-19-related deaths over the past 24 hours,, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Sunday. The number of active cases stands at 9,069. There are 779 infected persons receiving hospital treatment, and 95 of them are on ventilators. Since 25 February 2020, when the first case was confirmed in Croatia, 408,699 people have been registered as having contracted the novel coronavirus, and 8,678 of them have died, while 390,952 have recovered, including 1,082 in the last 24 hours. Currently, there are 20,198 people in self-isolation. To date,…

October 3, 2021 - A new month, a new Zagreb Digital Nomad Ambassador: meet Andrae Smith from South Africa, who will be resident for the month of October.  The focus on developing the digital nomad story in Zagreb continues. After the success of the inaugural Zagreb Digital Nomad Week in June, the Zagreb Digital Nomad Ambassador project has been running since July 1, with the Croatian capital hosting one eexperienced digital nomad a month at Doma Zagreb Aparthotel to work with the city in increasing awareness of Zagreb as a quality destination for remote workers.  The tenure of September's dynamic ambassador,…

October the 3rd, 2021 - The largest continental Croatian tourism project which would come to be in Bjelovar and bring endless benefits to it, is stuck in an uncertain race. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, the Thermal Riviera with Olympic, outdoor and indoor pools and a water park, relying on sustainable energy sources and geothermal sources, is a large sports and tourism project from Bjelovar worth 250 million kuna in a high stage of completion, and is one of the projects that already fully meet the principles. funding criteria from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NPOO). However, to make…

October the 3rd, 2021 - Croatian economic indicators that have been arriving over more recent months have been well and truly "trampling" on some recent forecasts on the pace of economic recovery, ie this year's GDP growth. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Jadranka Dozan writes, only a few months ago, the Croatian National Bank revised the growth estimate upwards (to 6.2 percent), and now they're calculating that Croatian GDP growth rate will reach 8.5 percent this year. The latest projection was made by Governor Boris Vujcic at the Financial Market conference held in Opatija. This is primarily based on the expected results of tourism,…

October the 3rd, 2021 - Konzum has officially taken over the Istrian Miracolo shopping chain, which the well known Croatian shopping giant has expressed its satisfaction with. Just four years ago, Konzum was associated with the failing Agrokor, which had fallen into disarray under the leadership of its former boss, Ivica Todoric. What then seemed like rocky times and high seas for the shopping brand which can be found all over Croatia, now seems to firmly be in the past. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, this business move and take over by Konzum has completed 2021's expantion of the retail network…

October the 3rd, 2021 - The new law proposal we recently wrote about, which would guarantee new mothers full wage payments for the duration of Croatian maternity leave, as well as paternity leave for new fathers, has had more details revealed. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, a woman's full salary will be paid during the entire duration of Croatian maternity leave, and paternity leave is also now being introduced - the news is that, as Vecernji list unofficially finds out, the announcing of a proposal for a new Maternity and Parental Benefits Act. Parental benefit during the six months of leave…