Politics

ZAGREB, 11 March 2021 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Thursday the epidemiological situation in Croatia was still relatively good, despite deteriorating somewhat in the past three weeks, which was why he appealed for constant and additional caution. Speaking at a cabinet meeting, he said Croatia was sixth in the EU in terms of lowest weekly incidence of new coronavirus cases and eighth in terms of lowest weekly COVID mortality, and that it had the lowest weekly incidence in Central and Mediterranean Europe. Plenković said the quite high increases in Italy, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia should lead to greater caution…

March the 9th, 2021 - About 40,000 Croatian citizens made a living from working on online platforms back in 2019, and such work should finally be regulated, Vecernji list writes on Monday. Could this result in better Croatian working conditions for thousands of people? As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, the European Commission (EC) launched the first phase of consultations with European social partners back during the middle of last week on how to improve the working conditions of people working through digital work platforms. The start of that consultation coincided with a historic ruling in Milan in which Italian courts ordered four…

ZAGREB, 8 March, 2021 - The Social Democratic Party (SDP) marked International Women's Day on Monday with a multimedia art project featuring women's accounts of what it means to be a woman in Croatia today. The multimedia web project, called "From 5 to 95", shows women and girls talking about what it means to be a woman in Croatia today and how their lives differ from those of their mothers, grandmothers and grand-grandmothers.  The project was presented at SDP headquarters where the authors Arijana Lekić-Fridrih and Andrea Kaštelan were hosted by SDP leader Peđa Grbin. Lekić-Fridrih said that the project…

ZAGREB, 8 March, 2021 - President Zoran Milanović on Monday visited the Sisak Faculty of Metallurgy, saying metallurgy was stereotypically considered a male profession, and the Petrinja Faculty of Teacher Education, saying teaching was considered a female profession. One of the topics with faculty officials and students was the role of women in science and higher education. "The reason I am here today, on International Women's Day, is also the fact that at (the Sisak) faculty, in management and leadership, are solely women, which is very unusual given that the nature of their profession is stereotypically considered male," Milanović told the press, adding that it…

ZAGREB, 8 March, 2021 - Women's Network Croatia called on the government on Monday, International Women's Day, to urgently adopt a new national gender equality plan to prevent discrimination against women and a deterioration in their status.  The NGO noted that the fact that the government did not have a systematic policy on gender equality affected all spheres of life and resulted in discrimination against women and a deterioration in their status. "Today we are seeing an increasing number of reports of domestic violence and the worsening economic status of women," the organisation said in a statement. Referring to the government's…

ZAGREB, 8 March, 2021 - The chair of the Croatian Parliament Committee on Agriculture, Marijana Petir, has sent an initiative to the Minister of Agriculture to include activities aimed at improving the status of women in rural areas in the Agricultural Strategy and introduce a special sub-programme for women in rural areas. Given that the Agricultural Strategy 2020-2030 is in the final stage of preparation, it is important for women in rural areas to be included in it in a separate section. That, in turn, would require preparation of an action plan that would deal with the status of women…

ZAGREB, 8 March, 2021 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković extended his best wishes to women for International Women's Day on Monday. "Women have made our families and our society better through their work and commitment. This is a special day to thank them for their invaluable contribution to creating a more equitable community," the prime minister said in his message. He said his government would make a stronger contribution to women's equality in Croatian society by adopting various employment schemes for women, achieving equal conditions on the labour market, promoting demographic measures and resolutely combating all forms of discrimination and…

ZAGREB, 8 March, 2021 - Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković said on Monday that although a lot had been done in including women in public, professional and political life, further efforts should be made to reach the highest standards in gender equality. Observing International Women's Day on 8 March is an opportunity to express our gratitude and respect to all women that make our society better and more developed, Jandroković said in his message. On this day we remember all social, economic, cultural, political and scientific achievements made by women in the past, he said adding that Croatia is among countries in which…

ZAGREB, 7 March, 2021 - The HDZ candidate for Zagreb mayor, Davor Filipović, told in an interview for Hina that the death of Milan Bandić did not change anything in his campaign, unlike for some other candidates, and added that Zagreb was financially "on its knees" with the perception of the "smell of corruption". First, I would like to once again express my deep and sincere condolences to the Bandić family, his friends, associates and sympathisers. Bandić was elected mayor six times by the people of Zagreb and that speaks for itself, the HDZ mayoral candidate said in the interview…

March 8, 2021 - "It's not discrimination, but I noticed that my gender mattered differently in Croatia in terms of marital status and traveling alone," said Croatian-American Psychology Professor Mala Matacin about gender equality in Croatia. Like every year, 2021 is no different, and March 8 is marked as International Women's Day. The day that celebrates women's emancipation but sadly reminds us that the battle for true equality is still ongoing. Given that massive gatherings still aren't recommended due to the coronavirus pandemic, the annual Noćni Marš (Night March) in Zagreb will not be held this year as confirmed by…