Politics
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Croatia, France Sign New Strategic Partnership Agreement
ZAGREB, 25 Nov 2021 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and French President Emmanuel Macron signed a Strategic Partnership Agreement in Government House on Thursday, which will further strengthen relations between Zagreb and Paris. The agreement was signed after their bilateral meeting. France and Croatia already agreed on a strategic partnership in 2010, but the new agreement will expand and deepen it to a number of new areas. It will be a framework for the further strengthening of relations with that country, it was announced. With the new strategic partnership, France is supporting Croatia in several areas, political, economic, and cultural, including those that are…
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Croatia, France Sign Deal on Purchase of Rafale Squadron
ZAGREB, 25 Nov 2021 - Croatia and France signed an agreement in Zagreb on Thursday on the purchase of French Rafale fighter jets, which will raise the defense capability of the Croatian Army to a much higher level. The agreement was signed by the two countries' defence ministers, Mario Banožić and Florence Parly, in the presence of Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and French President Emmanuel Macron, who arrived on Wednesday for the first official bilateral visit of a French president to Croatia. Croatia is buying from France 12 Dassault Rafale F3R used multipurpose fighter jets - ten single-seats and two…
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Macron Hints at French Support for Croatia's Admission to Schengen Area
ZAGREB, 25 Nov 2021 - President Emmanuel Macron said in Zagreb on Thursday that France and Croatia would continue cooperating in the sectors of security and migrations, and hinted at French support for Croatia's plan to join the Schengen Area. Marcon was received by Croatian President Zoran Milanović in his office on Thursday morning with the highest state honors. Addressing the press after their talks, Milanović said that it was a special honor for him to receive the French head of state. Macron said that he was proud of being the first French president to visit Croatia since the country gained independence. He said…
Thursday, 25 November 2021
Croatian President Milanović Welcomes France's Macron
ZAGREB, 25 Nov 2021 - The French national anthem played outside Croatian President Zoran Milanović's office to welcome French President Emmanuel Macron, the first French president visiting Croatia since it gained independence. Milanović welcomed Macron with the highest state honors. The Croatian Armed Forces orchestra played the two countries' national anthems. Also present was the Honorary and Protection Battalion. After the welcoming ceremony, the two presidents went to a tête-à-tête meeting. Macron will then lay a wreath at the Homeland Monument in Stjepan Radić Square. He expressed the wish to pay his respects to those killed in the 1991-95 Homeland War and will…
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Health Minister says 6,136 Newly Infected, Pandemic Still Rages
ZAGREB, 24 November, 2021 - Health Minister Vili Beroš said on Wednesday that in the past 24 hours Croatia had registered 6,136 new coronavirus cases, underscoring that while the epidemic was still raging there were people willing to build their political careers and score cheap political points on the deaths of their fellow citizens. "Croatia has registered 6,136 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours. The percentage of those who tested positive is 40%, which shows that the epidemic is still raging, that the virus is spreading, that we, as a society, are not cautious enough, that we are not observing…
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Two Charged with Organising Saturday's Rally Contrary to Public Assembly Law
ZAGREB, 23 November, 2021 - The police have filed a report against Marko Francišković and Andrija Klarić for organising a rally of opponents of anti-epidemic rules in Zagreb on Saturday contrary to the law on public assembly. The police said that the organisers did not announce the rally to the Zagreb Police Department and failed to take necessary measures to ensure the public order during the gathering of several thousand antivaxxers and opponents of mandatory COVID certificates. Zagreb Police Department official Davor Posilović said on Sunday that the police were intensively searching for the organisers of Saturday's rally, as well as for attackers…
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Protesters against COVID Certificates are Hypocrites, Health Minister Says
ZAGREB, 23 November, 2021 - Health Minister Vili Beroš said on Tuesday that protesters against COVID certificates are hypocrites because now they are opposed to testing, vaccination and restrictions, and "then they will come knocking on the doors of the overburdened healthcare system." "It seems that Saturday's protest produced a new motto - take care of yourself, infect others. You can be against, but give us an alternative," Beroš said in a message to opponents of COVID certificates while speaking to the press after a meeting of the ruling coalition. "The government, trying to avoid tougher restrictions such as a…
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Mozemo!: Report over Overrepresentation of Women Absurd
ZAGREB, 23 November - The Mozemo! party said on Tuesday that it considered a report filed against it by local prosecutors to the Osijek Municipal Court over the overrepresentation of women and underrepresentation of men on the party's slate for the Osijek City Council as absurd. Mozemo! MP Sandra Benčić told a news conference in Osijek that the purpose of the provision of the Gender Equality Act under which a slate must contain at least 40% of candidates of the underrepresented gender is to increase women's participation in politics. She said the law in question defined the gender that accounts for less than 40%…
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Fines for COVID Certificate Rule Violations to Range Between €4,000-6,700
ZAGREB, 23 Nov 2021 - Justice and Public Administration Minister Ivan Malenica said on Tuesday that fines for those flouting the mandate to show their COVID-19 certificates in public law bodies would range between 30,000 and 50,000 kuna ( €4,000-6,700). We have envisaged pecuniary penalties for the responsible persons who fail to respect the relevant law. Fines are between HRK 30,000 and HRK 50,000, and we believe that they will prompt those institutions' heads and persons in charge to respect the decisions made by the national COVID-19 crisis management team, said the minister. The draft amendments to the relevant legislation will be on…
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Plenković Extends Condolences to North Macedonia PM
ZAGREB, 23 Nov 2021 - Croatia is with you in these difficult moments, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in his condolences to North Macedonia PM Zoran Zaev and the families of that country's citizens killed when a bus caught fire in Bulgaria, killing 45 people, the Croatian government said on Tuesday. The bus with North Macedonia license plates and 52 people on board caught fire on a motorway in western Bulgaria this morning. An employee of the North Macedonia Embassy in Sofia told BTV that most of the fatalities were North Macedonia citizens. "It was with great sorrow and genuine regret that I…
Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Ministry Says No Croatian Nationals Among Casualties in Bus Accident in Bulgaria
ZAGREB, 23 Nov 2021 - Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman on Tuesday expressed his deepest condolences and offered help to his North Macedonian counterpart Bujar Osmani following an accident involving a bus with North Macedonian license plates in Bulgaria in which at least 45 people were killed. According to initial reports, there are no Croatian nationals among the casualties. The bus caught fire on a motorway in the west of Bulgaria early on Tuesday morning, a senior Bulgarian Foreign Ministry official said. The vehicle, carrying 52 passengers, was moving along the Struma motorway from Sofia to Blegoevgrad in the southwest of…
