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June the 26th, 2021 - The ongoing coronavirus pandemic hasn't aided Croatia's long-standing demographic crisis, and now facility openings are in question this summer as the Croatian tourism sector lacks as many as 5000 employees despite the easing of epidemiological measures. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, the Croatian tourism sector and its many companies are facing a huge problem of a lack of workers, which is why it is even questionable as to whether some facilities will bother to open their doors this season, primarily hotels. Every large tourist company is currently short of several hundred workers, as was unofficially learned.…

June the 26th, 2021 - It's well known that the waters can get murky in Croatia when it comes to construction, permits and concessions, and as many as 1574 Croatian facilities claim to boast ''private beaches''. As Morski writes, the very rightly raised voices in the public about one arrogant man from Drvenik Veli who sold the story to his guests from the Czech Republic that he has a private beach - still aren't subsiding. There can be no notion of a private beach in Croatia, so the nerve of those owners of various Croatian facilities claiming they boast one…

June the 26th, 2021 - The Split Airport reconstruction project has received the Croatian Cemex construction award, among other praiseworthy projects from both Dalmatia and Kvarner. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, the Split Airport reconstruction and extension of the passenger terminal, the Castua Pentagon office building from Kastav and the New City Stairs from Ploce are the winners of this year's Cemex Construction Award in the Republic of Croatia. The three winners of the local pre-competition will represent Croatia's construction achievements over the last three years at the global Cemex Architecture Award, which is to be held this November in…

26 June 2021 - One TCN intern interviewed four young French people who recently moved to Croatia about their everyday life, impressions, and preferences here. A look at how French youth live in Croatia.  They came to Croatia for different volunteering projects regardless of coronavirus pandemic, but likely would recommend their new abode to fellow countrymen as a good place to survive quarantine. The luckiest of them Mathias (26) got a chance to arrive in Split in February 2020, Axelle (22), and Clemence (22) joined him nearly a year later. Mathilde (23) came to Zagreb sometime between this period, in…

June 25th, 2021 - President Zoran Milanović attended a promotion ceremony for 134 cadets at the Croatian Military Academy in Zagreb on Friday, saying that in their future work, they should "safeguard the Constitution, the holy scripture of the Croatian state."  Among the cadets who completed training programs for commissioned and non-commissioned officers were 11 cadets from the Croatian Army, one from the Ministry of the Interior, one from the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, one from the Croatian Fire Service, as well as 20 from foreign countries (10 from Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2 from Montenegro, 2 from Kosovo, 4…

June 25th, 2021 - Croatia has registered 23 cases of the Indian/Delta coronavirus variant in five counties. If it starts to spread, stricter epidemiological measures will follow. The Croatian Institute for Public Health and member of the national COVID response team, Krunoslav Capak, said on Friday.   "The Indian variant has been identified in Međimurje, Šibenik-Knin, Varaždin, Split-Dalmatia, and Zagreb counties. Naturally, we are concerned," Capak told a regular COVID press conference. Indian variant spreads 30 to 40 times faster. "The Indian variant spreads 30 to 40 times faster than the classic and UK variant, which dominated recently. Indications exist that the contagion…

June 25th, 2021 - Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković greeted Croatian citizens in the country and abroad on Independence Day, calling on lawmakers to turn to topics of the future and challenges of the modern era.  "By marking Independence Day, we remember 25 June 1991 when the Croatian Parliament adopted two historic decisions: the Constitutional decision on Croatia's sovereignty and independence, and the Declaration of Croatia's sovereignty and independence. After that, all foreign representatives accredited in Zagreb were asked to recognize the Croatian state. These decisions represented the constitutional basis for independence on which the sovereign Croatian state emerged," Jandroković recalled in his address…

June the 25th, 2021 - A Croatian team behind a startup called Spiritus has developed an innovative platform through which every single person can leave their own digital trace. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Ivan Tominac writes, everyone walking this Earth will leave some sort of trace behind them as they go, and every human story is special and deserves to be told. A team of six Croatian students from the Spiritus platform for creating digital memories also took care of that, and thanks to them, every human's story will be just a single click away. The idea to create the Spiritus platform…

25 June 2021 – Dubrovnik Marin Med Polyclinic released an app that allows people to order COVID-19 testing. Travelling in the time of the pandemic has been interesting and sometimes quite frustrating. The situation in 2021 is much better than the previous year, but there are still some hoops that need jumping through in order to get to your dream vacation. One of the most important things to consider when travelling is the need for COVID19 testing. In Dubrovnik, Marin Med Polyclinic is one of the most efficient and hassle-free places where you can do this. Now, they’ve made the…

June 25, 2021 - Croatian tennis players have found out their Wimbledon opponents! The tournament will be held from June 28 to July 11, 2021.  The only Croatian representative in the men's competition at this year's Wimbledon, Marin Čilić, will face Salvatore Caruso in the 1st round, while both Croatian representatives in the women's competition will compete against 20-year-old Russians - Donna Vekić v. Anastasia Potapova and Petra Martić v. Varvara Gracheva, was determined by a draw on Friday, reports Gol.hr. Čilić, the 2017 Wimbledon finalist, was appointed the 32nd-seed of the tournament after Austrian Dominic Thiem pulled out on…