Politics
Monday, 9 November 2020
Croatian Minister Attends Berlin Process Meeting on Ways to Strengthen Cooperation
ZAGREB, November 9, 2020 - Croatia's Foreign and European Affairs Minister Gordan Grlic Radman participated in an online meeting on Mondayof the member-countries of the Berlin Process focusing on the strengthening of regional cooperation and trust-building, the ministry said. Regional cooperation and trust-building are to be enhanced through contacts and mobility - primarily between young people and civil society organisations, it was said at the meeting. Participants confirmed their support to projects and programmes concerning young people and advocated closer regional cooperation as well as the economic prosperity and European journey of the Western Balkan countries. In his address at the…
Monday, 9 November 2020
Majority of Salaries Will be Taxed 20%, Says Daily
ZAGREB, November 9, 2020 - As of next year, Croatia will tax a majority of salaries only 20%, plus local tax, which is four percentage points less than now, Vecernji List daily said on Monday. The government believes this change will reduce the tax burden on salaries by HRK 2 billion annually, the paper said. How much each employed person will benefit from the cut depends on their gross salary and deductions for children and other dependent family members. Income tax is paid by all employed persons as well as the jobless who do part-time work and pensioners whose allowance exceeds…
Sunday, 8 November 2020
PM: Existing Measures to be Extended, Additional Ones Being Considered
ZAGREB, November 8, 2020 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said after meeting with the national coronavirus response team on Sunday that the epidemiological measures in place would be extended and additional ones would be considered. "The response team have announced that they will be extending all the existing measures as of tomorrow. They are considering possible additional measures in consultation with the minister of science and education regarding online classes at universities and the possibility of working from home," Plenkovic told the press after the meeting. He said that the national response team would hold press conferences three times a…
Sunday, 8 November 2020
Plenkovic: Croatia to Continue Building Partnership with US
ZAGREB, Nov 8, 2020 - Croatia will continue building the partnership and allied relationswith the United States, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Sunday after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the US presidential election on Saturday. "According to the information we have now, I think the result is certain. We have congratulated President-Elect Biden and Vice President-Elect Harris, and we will continue building the partnership and good allied relations between Croatia and the US. There are a lot of things that connect us and, of course, there is also a wider transatlantic partnership between the US and the EU," Plenkovic…
Sunday, 8 November 2020
President's Office: Government is Deceiving the Public
ZAGREB, Nov 8, 2020 - The President's Office said on Sunday it had not received a letter from the prime minister proposing a National Security Council meeting, claiming that the government was trying to deceive the public. The Office of the President of the Republic "can only repeat the easily verifiable fact: President Zoran Milanovic did not receive any proposal from Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic to convene the National Security Council," it said in a press release entitled "The government is deceiving the public, Prime Minister Plenkovic did not send a letter to President Milanovic". The President's Office said it had checked…
Sunday, 8 November 2020
What Kind of Croatian Tax Relief Awaits Us in 2021?
As Poslovni Dnevnik/Jadranka Dozan writes on the 8th of November, 2020, the Croatian Government has sent proposals to Parliament to amend four laws that provide legal bases for the fifth round of interventions in the tax system. What sort of Croatian tax relief can we expect next year? The main points of the new round of Croatian tax relief were presented before the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. In the autumn economic forecasts presented yesterday, the European Commission revised the expectations for respective EU economies and now estimates that a return to pre-pandemic levels by the year 2022 isn't…
Sunday, 8 November 2020
Plenkovic Congratulates Biden, Looks Forward to Future Cooperation
ZAGREB, Nov 7, 2020 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has congratulated Joe Biden on winning the US presidency, saying that he is looking forward to future cooperation with his administration. Congratulations to President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice President-Elect Kamala Harris, Plenkovic wrote on Twitter on Saturday evening. The Croatian government looks forward to working with you and your administration on strengthening bilateral ties and enhancing transatlantic partnership, he added. Joe Biden was declared US President-Elect on Saturday after surpassing the 270 electoral votes required to win the White House.
Sunday, 8 November 2020
Minister Butkovic Tests Positive for Coronavirus
ZAGREB, Nov 8, 2020 - Croatian Maritime Affairs, Transport and Infrastructure Minister, Oleg Butkovic, got tested for coronavirus on Saturday and his test returned positive, his Ministry said on Sunday. Minister is feeling well as he has milder symptoms of the infection, and he will continue working in self-isolation, adhering to recommendations by epidemiologists and doctors, it was said in the press release.
Sunday, 8 November 2020
Milanovic: Croatia will have an Ally and Friend in Biden
ZAGREB, Nov 8, 2020 - Croatian President Zoran Milanovic on Saturday congratulated U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on his victory of the presidential elections and said he was confident that this victory would mean the restoration of the trans-Atlantic partnership. President Milanovic said in his message that Croatia would have not only an ally but also a friend in Biden, since he "understands very well our recent history which I could see during our previous meaningful talks." The trust of a record high number of U.S. voters placed in Biden shows that we must persist in believing in democracy even when it is at test,…
Saturday, 7 November 2020
Croatian GDP Drop Among Worst in EU, Better Than Summer Predictions
As Novac/Augustin Palokaj writes on the 6th of November, 2020, the Croatian GDP drop should be at around 9.6 percent this year, which is among the largest declines in the EU, as only Spain with a 12.4 percent drop and Italy with 9.9 percent drop will have a larger decline than that. The good news for Croatia is that mass job losses have been avoided so far, that unemployment growth is much lower than the economic downturn and that unemployment will drop again next year. Public debt in all EU countries is skyrocketing, which is understandable in the circumstances of…
Friday, 6 November 2020
Council: Anti-COVID Measures Appropriate and Proportional to Threat
ZAGREB, November 6, 2020 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Friday that the government's scientific council had assessed that the current measures were proportionate to the threat of the spread of coronavirus. "We have ascertained that there is a very clear common denominator that the measures we are taking are appropriate and proportional to the threat that the epidemic currently represents to the health of our citizens," Plenkovic told reporters after a meeting of the scientific council in the government. He underscored that if necessary, the council would recommend further measures while the National Civil Protection Authority, that is the COVID-19 crisis management…
