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ZAGREB, 26 Sept, 2021 - More than 1,326,000 Croatians have self-enumerated by 3 pm on 26 September in the first phase of the 2021 census of population, households and dwellings, the national statistical office said on Sunday. According to data on the number of persons who have self-enumerated at the e-Građani portal, most or 403,183 of the people who have self-enumerated live in the City of Zagreb. Zagreb is followed by Split-Dalmatia County, with 132,662 self-enumerated citizens, and Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, with 113,518 citizens who have completed census questionnaires online on their own. The first phase of the 2021 census,…

ZAGREB, 26 Sept, 2021 - A group of Croatian scientists has issued a public letter underlining the importance of adopting an agenda or a specific action plan for the protection of the Adriatic Sea, vital for the sustainable development of the Croatian society, and their appeal was forwarded by the Eko Kvarner NGO on Sunday.  The scientists, who in September attended a conference on the Adriatic Sea eco-system on the island of Krk, say in their appeal to the prime minister, the parliament speaker and the public that the research of the Adriatic had been conducted for years but that there was a…

ZAGREB, 26 Sept, 2021 - Zagreb will host the 31st Jazz.hr/jesen music festival from 30 September to 2 October, consisting of five concerts, including by the 18-member avant-garde conceptual world jazz ensemble Mimika Orchestra. The festival will also feature the Croatian Radio-Television Jazz Orchestra together with several soloists and composers, the Zvonimir Šestak Groove Assembly and guests, vocalist Daniel Caccia, and the piano-vocal-percussion duo freekind. The concerts will be held at Tvornica kulture. For more on lifestyle, follow TCN's dedicated page. For more about Croatia, CLICK HERE.

ZAGREB, 26 Sept, 2021 - While Western countries are looking to attract highly skilled workers, Croatia has been importing unskilled labour, mostly single men who with their low wages cannot afford to live with their families, reads an article in the Večernji List daily edition of Sunday. How many foreign workers should Croatia, being a small country, import to reach the average standard of living in the EU, so that all those who work today do not sink into poverty when they retire, says the daily. What makes a state a state are its residents, with the standard of living being…

ZAGREB, 26 Sept, 2021 - The Agency for Vocational Education and Training has announced the 15th Lifelong Learning Week, a national education campaign aimed at promoting the acquisition of knowledge even after completing the usual stages of education. During the Lifelong Learning Week, citizens will be able to attend free workshops, lectures, round tables, concerts, and many educational institutions will open their doors to acquaint potential students with their educational programmes. The Lifelong Learning Week will be held from 27 September to 3 October, and the opening ceremony will take place at the PISMO 2 Business Incubator in Novska, a town…

ZAGREB, 26 Sept, 2021 - The 46th Samobor Music Autumn festival of classical music started at the St. Anastasia Church in that town west of Zagreb on Saturday evening with a rendition of the Symphony No. 1 in D major by Gustav Mahler, performed by the Festival Chamber Orchestra under the conductorship of Veton Marevci. The festival, to last until 3 October, will feature 13 concerts by first-rate musicians from Croatia and abroad. The festival in Samobor, which includes the Ferdo Livadić international competition of young musicians and the New Note international competition of composers, was opened by Culture and Media…

September the 26th, 2021 - As Central Croatia continues to battle with earthquakes of varying strengths with the horrid memory of the devastating one which struck Petrinja in December last year still fresh in collective memory, Croatian seismologist Kresimir Kuk seeks to answer some pressing questions. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, just a few days ago, two moderate earthquakes hit the Banovina area once again. At 01:32, seismologists from the Seismological Service recorded a moderate earthquake with the epicentre near Petrinja. The magnitude of the earthquake was 3.7. Following that, seismologists from the Seismological Service recorded another moderate earthquake with the epicenter…

ZAGREB, 26 Sept, 2021 - Croatian schools still do not offer systematic education about climate change even though transition to a climate neutral economy will create more than one million jobs in the EU in the period until 2030, teachers interested in the topic of climate change have said. Croatian students acquire most of the knowledge about climate change by participating in projects. Sanja Turčić Padavić, a teacher at a Rijeka secondary school, says that young people are aware that the new time brings new challenges that will be easier to deal with with green skills but that school curricula make no…

ZAGREB, 26 Sept, 2021 - In the past 24 hours 837 coronavirus cases and 15 related deaths have been confirmed in Croatia, while the number of active cases stands at 8,184, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Sunday. A total of 692 persons are hospitalised, including 99 on ventilators, while 23,028 persons are self-isolating. Croatia has registered 399,891 coronavirus cases to date, including 8,595 deaths, and 383,112 recoveries, of which 1,215 in the past 24 hours. To date 2,790,935 persons have been tested for the virus, including 9,098 in the past 24 hours, and 44.49% of the population has been vaccinated, including 53.38% of adults, of whom 50.14% fully. For…

September 26, 2021 - New details have emerged in the Harald Kopitz children deaths on September 25 in the Zagreb neighborhood of Mlinovi.  Harald Kopitz, a 56-year-old Austrian from Vienna who lives and works in Zagreb, killed his three children at 2 am on Saturday, September 25. He is said to have strangled his 7-year-old twins and 4-year old son. He also posted a haunting message on Facebook before the crime and tried to kill himself. But many questions have been left unanswered.  Police found the lifeless bodies of three children, two seven-year-old twins, and a four-year-old boy, and their stunned father,…