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May 30, 2021 - Air Pannonia, an Osijek-based aircraft operator focused on business transport, strengthened its fleet with another business aircraft or the new Cessna - business aircraft with seven seats. After two aircraft (CJ with registration marks 9A-JIM, and CJ2 with registration marks 9A-JIP), Air Pannonia thus becomes the only company in Croatia that owns three JETs, reports HRTurizam. The Cessna is an aircraft that is one of the most comfortable in this class, and it arrived from the United Kingdom. Air Pannonia is now a recognizable brand in the European and wider market, so it is not surprising…

May 30, 2021 - The Marina Kastela yacht fire on Saturday night destroyed 5 yachts and damaged 18. Fortunately, no one was hurt.  An unprecedented fire broke out last night at around 8:30 pm on one of the anchored yachts in Marina Kastela. Five luxury boats about 20 meters long were completely burned. The damage will be in the millions of euros, reports Slobodna Dalmacija. In an instant, a fire raged on a yacht for reasons not yet determined. Crew members immediately tried to put out the fire, but unfortunately, without success. After the ropes burned on the fire-affected yacht, the…

May 29, 2021 - Mateo Kovačić and Chelsea are the champions of Europe after defeating Manchester City 1:0 in the final tonight.  Mateo Kovačić is the European champion with Chelsea! The Croatia national team player played the last 15 minutes in Chelsea's Champions League final win against Manchester City (1:0). Kovačić had previously won three consecutive Champions League titles with Real Madrid, but never entered the pitch in any of the finals. He has thus played the Champions League final for the first time. "Winning the Champions League is impressive. I did it three times with Real Madrid, but unfortunately,…

ZAGREB, 29 May 2021 - Czech tourists will be able to enter Croatia without additional restrictions within 22 days of receiving the first COVID-19 vaccine shot, the foreign ministers of the two countries said on Saturday. The decision should enter into force next week, when "the details are finalised at expert levels," Gordan Grlić Radman of Croatia said at a press conference. The agreement between Croatia and the Czech Republic is "a great pattern for further bilateral agreements with other states," he added. Croatian Tourism Minister Nikolina Brnjac said she would discuss this subject with her Austrian counterpart on Monday…

ZAGREB, 29 May 2021 - Adriatic states are a rich tourism whole but have a lot of untapped potential which should be promoted also outside the short and intense season, participants in a regional tourism project said in Subotica, Serbia on Saturday. Landscape Days, held in the Zasavica Special Nature Reserve near Sremska Mitrovica, are part of the Adrilink project which encompasses ten partner cities in seven Adriatic countries - Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania and Greece. The project partners in Croatia are the municipality of Mošćenička Draga and the town of Vrsar. "The goal is a common vision of…

ZAGREB, 29 May 2021 - The first 187-seat passenger Boeing 737-800 of the new Croatian airline ETF Airways was presented at Pula Airport on Saturday and another one is expected at the beginning of next month. ETF Airways was established last year with the signing of the first permanent contract on connecting destinations in Southeast Europe with those across the EU, it was said. "The market is recovering quickly after the spring easing of the pandemic. The demand for our services outside Croatia is growing above our expectations. We have a great team of people who have managed to respond to every challenge…

ZAGREB, 29 May 2021 - The first train within the Czech rail operator RegioJet's seasonal train service on the Prague- Zagreb-Rijeka/Split route arrived in Rijeka on Saturday morning, bringing more than 150 travellers to this northern Croatian seaport. On Saturday afternoon, the RegioJet train is expected in Split. Over 30,000 tickets have been sold to date for this train service this summer. Last year, more than 60,000 passengers rode on this route. In mid-May, Croatia's HŽ Putnički Prijevoz (HŽPP) rail passenger transport company signed a cooperation agreement with the Czech rail operator RegioJet on the train service on the Prague - Zagreb -Rijeka/Split route, after…

May 29, 2021 -  The Gajo Bulat Square renovation in front of the HNK Split is finally complete. The new space will officially open tonight with a concert and fireworks show! The evening before the Statehood Day and the Day of Croatian Defenders of Split, on Saturday, May 29, starting at 8 pm on the newly renovated Gajo Bulat Square, the Choir, Orchestra and Soloists of the Opera and Drama Actors of the Croatian National Theater Split will perform a gala concert as a gift to all Split citizens. Under the direction of maestro Ivo Lipanović, tenor Božo Jurić Pešić,…

ZAGREB, 29 May 2021 - The new European Bauhaus, an initiative about climate adaptation of the built environment, is an opportunity for Croatia to raise the architectural and living standards, notably in the quake-hit areas, Croatian MEP Željana Zovko told Hina on Saturday. The idea about a new European Bauhaus was presented by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in her State of the Union speech last year. In her address to the European Parliament on that occasion, she outlined her plan to create a "new European Bauhaus" to kickstart a cultural and sustainable movement in the European Union. The…

ZAGREB, 29 May 2021 - In the last 24 hours, 5,971 tests have been conducted for coronavirus, and 5.6%, that is 338 have turned out to be positive, Croatia's COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Saturday. The COVID-related death toll has risen by 10 to 8,002. There are currently 2,557 active cases, including 819 hospitalised patients of whom 88 are on ventilators. Since 25 February 2020 when Croatia registered its first case of infection with coronavirus, more than two million tests have been conducted, showing that 355,955 people have caught the virus. Of them 345,396 have recovered, including 497 recoveries…