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ZAGREB, 24 June 2021 - Social Democratic Party MP Arsen Bauk said on Thursday the incumbent parliament would not succeed in appointing a new Supreme Court president because of the "tough cohabitation" between Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and President Zoran Milanović. MPs today debated Milanović's candidate for that post, Zlata Đurđević. The ruling majority and part of the opposition said they would not vote for her tomorrow. The debate convinced us that she is a good candidate but will not be elected because there is no agreement between Milanović and Plenković, Bauk said, adding that the "biggest compliment" to Đurđević was that the ruling HDZ party was against…

ZAGREB, 24 June 2021 - Croatian Minister of Science and Technology Radovan Fuchs and Hungary's Minister for Human Resources Miklós Kásler on Thursday signed a program of cooperation in education and science for the period 2021 to 2025.  "The document additionally testifies to the exceptionally good, friendly, harmonic relations between Croatia and Hungary. The centuries-long history of our two peoples comes to full expression in cooperation and friendly relations," said Minister Fuchs. He underscored that the way the issue of the Hungarian minority in Croatia and the Croatian minority in Hungary, all the rights that national minorities enjoy, is definitely an example of how…

June 24, 2021 - To further strengthen economic cooperation and cultural exchanges between Croatia and Romania, a Romanian-Croatian bilateral meeting was held in Split today. The Romanian delegation led by the Ambassador of Romania to the Republic of Croatia, H. E. Constantin - Mihail Grigorie also celebrated the "International Day of the Romanian Blouse", which is observed today by Romanians around the world. Ambassador of Romania to the Republic of Croatia, H. E. Constantin - Mihail Grigorie, pointed out that today's event takes place in conditions in which the Romanian-Croatian cooperation is growing, which was contributed by the previous mutual…

June 24, 2021 - Following the professor Slavko Krajcar Death on June 18, take a look at the life of an established educator and scientist whose expertise made a significant contribution to Croatian politics in the energy sector. „The influence of a teacher can never be erased“, or as an American historian Henry Brook Adams put it, „Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops“- these two are just some of the inspirational quotes about teachers you can find with a little assistance from Google. Students at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) at the University…

ZAGREB, 24 June 2021 - In the past 24 hours, Croatia registered 101 new COVID cases and two people have died, the national COVID response team said on Thursday. There are currently 542 active cases in the country and 241 people are in hospital treatment, 15 of whom are on ventilators. Since the first case was registered in Croatia in February last year, there have been a total of 359,403 cases of contagion registered in Croatia, 74 of whom were registered in the past 24 hours. There are 3,818 people in self-isolation. To date, a total of 2,124,510 people have been tested,…

ZAGREB, 24 June 2021 - The standard of living in Croatia in the pandemic year 2020 was a third lower than the European Union average, despite the fact that consumer price levels were a third lower, according to data from the EU statistical office Eurostat. Eurostat measures the standard of living by actual individual consumption per capita, which shows how many goods and services individuals consumed, regardless of whether they paid for them by themselves or the costs were borne by their governments or non-governmental organizations. Actual individual consumption per capita is expressed in purchasing power standards, which enables the…

June 24th, 2021 - The social partners held the first official meeting to draft a new Labor Law in Croatia, one in a series expected in the coming weeks and months. Poslovni reports, State Secretary Dragan Jelic said that the negotiations would last until the end of this year. Before the end of the year, the first version of the agreed law is expected, which will pass the parliamentary procedure in two readings. The new Labor Law should enter into force on July 1, 2022, i.e., in a year, and the first meeting is just the beginning of the upcoming marathon.…

ZAGREB, 24 June 2021 - Migratory pressure on Europe is increasing again as the number of people illegally crossing the external borders of the European Union in the first five months of this year reached 47,100, which is an increase of nearly 50 percent compared with the same period last year, Večernji List newspaper said on Thursday.  On the so-called Balkan route, 14,734 illegal attempts to cross the border were reported this year, or 104 percent more than at the same time last year. The Western Balkan countries reported 2,900 such attempts in May, which is twice as many as…

ZAGREB, 24 June 2021 - Croatian MEP Predrag Matić said on Wednesday that it was a lie that his report on sexual and reproductive health, which will be put to a vote in the European Parliament on Thursday, promoted abortion. "No one is advocating abortion, particularly not as a method of contraception," Matić said during the plenary meeting of the European Parliament. "The number of abortions in countries where abortion is allowed is the same as in countries where it is banned. Only in these latter countries, it poses a risk to women's health as 23,000 women throughout the world…

24 June 2021 - Magic Johnson returns to Dubrovnik with his wife on holiday. This is his second time in the city he fell in love with last year. If there ever was a globally recongisable name in the world of sports, it is that of Magic Johnson. This legendary American reached the pinnacle of basketball success while playing for LA Lakers. He was also one of the key players in the original „Dream Team“. He played 13 seasons for LA Lakers and won three NBA Most Valuable Player awards. The basketball Hall of Fame honoured him two times, once…