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July the 13th, 2021 - The Zadar region has been deemed a potential risk as Austrian tourists are warned to be careful by a popular Austrian publication. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, under the headline “Atlas for a holiday trip”, the Österreich newspaper provides its readers with an overview of the epidemiological situation and the current coronavirus figures for coronavirus and its various different strains for all EU member states, as well as for the US and Turkey. On Saturday, under the headline "Holidays in danger" and the subtitle "Croatia-Alarm in the Zadar region", the paper warns Austrian tourists to properly inform…

July 12, 2021 - Sonus returns to Croatia with a packed lineup on Pag next year! At Sonus, the music runs from dusk till dawn for five days and nights. You dance by the beach, gaze out to sea and have a gorgeous sun beating down from above before the sky turns to flames and darkness falls. After two Covid-enforced years off, one of Europe's most iconic summer festivals finally returns from 21st - 25th August 2022 with its most alluring line-up yet.   Once again you can expect world-class international guests like a special, mouthwatering back-to-back set between the…

ZAGREB, 12 July, 2021 - Introducing mandatory vaccination against coronavirus has more and more often been mentioned in public, and some of the left-of-centre Opposition lawmakers have hinted at their possible support to the relevant legislative solution, the Večernji List daily reported on Monday. Peđa Grbin, the leader of the SDP, the strongest opposition party, was quoted by the VL daily as saying that the good wording and explanation of the legislation based on the scientific findings, would probably convibce him to raise his hand for the legislation introducing the compulsory vaccination against this infections disease. President Zoran Milanović has already said that…

ZAGREB, 12 July, 2021 - In the last 24 hours, of 1,707 tests conducted for coronavirus, 15, that is 0.9%, have returned positive, Croatia's national COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Monday. Currently, there are 511 active cases, including 107 hospitalied patients, and of them eight are placed on ventilators. In the last 24 hours the COVID-related death toll increased by two to 8,229. A total of 4,168 people are self-isolating. Since 25 February 2020, when Croatia registered its first case of the infection, there have been a total of 360,841 registered cases, and 352,101 have recovered, including 94 in the last 24 hours.…

ZAGREB, 12 July, 2021 - Since early December 2020 to date, the healthcare system's costs concerning the coronavirus infection have increased threefold to reach HRK 2.2 billion, the Jutarnji List (JL) daily newspaper reported on Monday. The biggest item in the COVID-related expenses is the hospital treatment of COVID patients, over a billion kuna to date. The head of the Croatian Health Insurance Agency (HZZO), Lucian Vukelić, was quoted by the daily as saying that on average, the cost of a day of the hospital treatment of COVID patients was HRK 6,000. Vukelić also commented on other COVID-related expenses covered…

ZAGREB, 12 July, 2021 - The Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development and the HEP national electricity provider signed an agreement on Monday which would classify the HES Kosinj hydropower system as a strategic investment, the ministry and HEP said. HES Kosinj is valued at HRK 1.54 billion and together with the second part of the project, the Senj 2 hydropower plant, it is the biggest HEP project since Croatia achieved independence, with a total value of HRK 3.4 billion, a press release said. Minister Tomislav Ćorić and the president of HEP's management board, Frane Barbarić, signed the agreement and based on it, the government will make…

ZAGREB, 12 July, 2021 - Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković told Croatian Radio on Monday that he thought there would be no mandatory vaccination against COVID and that for now there had been no mention of COVID passes for entering the parliament building. Jandroković also stressed that vaccination was the only way to put an end to the pandemic. "Science found the vaccine very quickly, we can fight the pandemic now, and the more vaccinated people there are, the better, more easily and more meaningfully will we live," he said, calling on citizens to get vaccinated because that will ensure their…

ZAGREB, 12 July, 2021 - MPs on Monday criticised the fact that the Conflict of Interest Commission had already opened a second case against Zagreb Mayor Tomislav Tomašević, with even his coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party, saying they were mistakes it hoped would not happen again. The Commission opened the second case over the appointment of Tomislav Lauc, who contributed HRK 10,000 to Tomašević's mayoral campaign, to the Srebrnjak Hospital's Steering Council. Sandra Benčić of Tomašević's We Can! party told the press that they selected people based on expertise and objectivity. "We talked to a number of people and…

ZAGREB, 12 July, 2021 - The Croatian Journalists Association (HND) and the Croatian Journalists Trade Union (SNH) on Monday demanded urgent amendments to the law on the HRT public broadcaster and a change of its current leadership. In a joint statement, the HND and the SNH recalled that HRT director Kazimir Bačić was recently relieved of duty after being arrested on suspicion of corruption. They said Bačić and his closest associates should have been dismissed long ago due to the "programming, personnel and technical devastation of the HRT." They recalled that Bačić had been appointed by parliament "with the blessing of the HDZ…

ZAGREB, 12 July (Hina) - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in parliament on Monday, submitting a report on European Council meetings in the past six months, that he expected Croatia to enter the Schengen Area in 2022. "I have publicly said a number of times that we expect it to be during 2022," he told Peđa Grbin of the opposition SDP. Grbin asked Plenković if and when Schengen would be enlarged and what the position of the member states was, given Slovenian Interior Minister Aleš Hojs's statement that it was not certain that Croatia's accession would be on the agenda in the next six…