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Friday, 2 July 2021
Croatia Donates 10,000 COVID Vaccines to North Macedonia
ZAGREB, 2 July 2021 - Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman on Friday donated 10,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to North Macedonia, saying that "efficient vaccination is the only way out of the COVID-19 pandemic." "Efficient vaccination is the only way out of the COVID-19 pandemic, of course, while maintaining the necessary balance between gradually opening borders and people's health," he said in Skopje. Assistance to North Macedonia is continuing because the Croatian government decided yesterday to donate another 20,000 vaccines, Grlić Radman said. North Macedonia's Foreign Minister Venko Filipče thanked Croatia for the donation. The additional 20,000 doses will be from AstraZeneca…
Friday, 2 July 2021
Ressler: We Mustn't Give in to Pressure Regarding Illegal Migrants
ZAGREB, 2 July 2021 - Croatia must not give in to political pressure aimed at changing the policy of preventing illegal migration, Croatian MEP Karlo Ressler said on Friday, adding that Social Democratic Party (SDP) MEPs had been known to be "fall" for "campaigns lambasting" Croatia. "From the very start of this European Parliament, we have been exposed to political pressure because of our protection of the external border and because of our ambition to become a member of the Schengen Area," Ressler told a virtual press conference called "Asylum, migration and the Schengen Area's functioning" that was organised by the EP's office in Croatia.…
Friday, 2 July 2021
Slovenia Absolutely Supports Croatia's Schengen Entry
ZAGREB, 2 July 2021 - The Slovenian Council of the EU presidency absolutely supports the Schengen entry of Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania, and is willing to put that on the agenda as soon as the member states reach agreement on it, Slovenian Interior Minister Aleš Hojs said on Friday. Frankly, we are most interested in Croatia's entry, for understandable reasons, because they are our neighbours and that would ease many of the problems we have on the border, for both Croatia and Slovenia, Hojs told a group of Brussels correspondents invited to Slovenia on the occasion of its Council of the EU…
Friday, 2 July 2021
Fans at Maksimir Stadium Allowed for Champions League Qualifier with EU Digital Covid Certificate
July 2, 2021 - Fans at Maksimir Stadium will be allowed for the 1st qualifying round of the Champions League only if they have an EU digital Covid certificate, which is a prerequisite for purchasing tickets. GNK Dinamo has decided that in the 1st qualifying round of the Champions League between Dinamo and Valur on July 7, starting at 7 pm at Maksimir Stadium, fans will be allowed to come to the stadium in compliance with all the above measures and conditions, which means mandatory EU digital Covid certificate, published the Croatian First League on the official website, as reported…
Friday, 2 July 2021
HSLS Condemns Grmoja's Statement about Paedophiles and LGBT Persons in Same Context
ZAGREB, 2 July 2021 - The HSLS party on Friday condemned a statement by Bridge MP Nikola Grmoja who expressed disgruntlement over the promotion of sexual minority rights and linked the LGBT community to paedophilia. "Tolerance and intolerance are two opposites that best symbolise two Europes today, a democratic one with liberal principles of freedom, equality and tolerance as part of their state policies, and an undemocratic one led by Orban's policies of intolerance and discrimination," HSLS leader Dario Hrebak said in a press release. He said that in that kind of Europe there are two mutually opposite Croatias, one that belongs…
Friday, 2 July 2021
Industrial Turnover in April Jumps 40.6% YOY
ZAGREB, 2 July 2021- In April 2021, industrial turnover was up by 1.3% on the month and by 40.6% on the year, according to the Croatian Bureau of Statistics. Year on year, industrial turnover increased by 28.9% on the domestic and by 58.1% on the foreign market. The sale of durable consumer goods saw the highest increase, by 124.5%, followed by capital goods (+85.5%), energy (+79.3%), intermediate goods (+33.2%) and non-durable consumer goods (+16.8%). Industrial turnover has been increasing annually since the start of the year, except in February, when it fell by 7.7%. It went up by 1.7% in…
Friday, 2 July 2021
Croatia Logs 92 New Coronavirus Cases, 3 Deaths
ZAGREB, 2 July 2021 - In the past 24 hours, 92 coronavirus cases and three deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Friday. There are 544 active cases, with 139 hospitalised patients, including 13 on ventilators, while 3,319 persons are self-isolating. Croatia has tested 2,157,376 persons for coronavirus, including 4,362 in the past 24 hours. To date, Croatia has registered 360,067 coronavirus cases, including 8,212 deaths and 351,311 recoveries, including 70 in the past 24 hours. To date, 2,601,390 COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, including 1,494,731 persons who have received at least one dose…
Friday, 2 July 2021
New Decision on Masks in Croatia: Digital Covid Certificate Areas are Mask Free
July 2, 2021 - Chief of the Civil Protection Headquarters Davor Božinović announced a new decision on masks in Croatia for people in digital Covid certificate areas. In the last 24 hours, 92 new cases of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection were recorded, and the number of active cases in Croatia today is a total of 544, the Civil Protection Headquarters of the Republic of Croatia announced on Friday morning. Among them, 139 patients are in hospital, of which 13 are on a respirator. Compared to yesterday, there are no new patients on the respirator. Three people died. The Chief of the Civil…
Friday, 2 July 2021
Underwater Distance Communication - New Zealand to Croatia
July 2nd, 2021 - As part of the 'Improving Diver-Robot Interaction Capabilities' (ADRIATIC) project, funded by the Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global), scientists conducted a transglobal experiment, Underwater Distance Communication - from New Zealand to Croatia. Poslovni Dnevnik reports, the global pandemic delayed the project by a bit, but it did not stop the development of an autonomous underwater vehicle on which Croatian and New Zealand scientists are working. The University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing and Biomimetics Lab of the Institute of Bioengineering, and the University of Auckland conducted a transglobal experiment on Underwater…
Friday, 2 July 2021
SDP, Bridge Against Vaccination Being Required for Job-keeping Payments
ZAGREB, 2 July 2021 - The Social Democratic Party called on Prime Minister Andrej Plenković on Thursday not to make vaccination a requirement for job-keeping payments, while the Bridge party said business owners were being blackmailed into vaccination. "In Croatia, mandatory vaccination is possible, but the obligation is first established under the law on the protection of the population and then regulated and worked out under Immunisation Rules and the Mandatory Vaccination Programme. The obligation of vaccination can't be imposed in another way, notably not by linking support for entrepreneurs with vaccination," SDP president Peđa Grbin posted on Facebook. He said the government's COVID-19…
Friday, 2 July 2021
Stories About New Wave Causing Croatian Accommodation Cancellations
July the 2nd, 2021 - Despite the fact that vaccination is going well and both infection rates and deaths are dropping, new variants of the virus continue to emerge, which is totally normal, but for some the constant headlines are becoming too much. Unfortunately, numerous Croatian accommodation cancellations have begun ever since headlines about new variants and new waves have begun to dominate once again. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Croatian Immunologist Stipan Jonjic from the Medical Faculty in Rijeka warned that there is a great risk that the illusion of normalcy, the biology of the virus and our mistakes will…
