Politics
Saturday, 22 August 2020
Homeland Movement Calls For Researching Crimes of Totalitarian, Authoritarian Regimes
ZAGREB, Aug 22, 2020 - The Homeland Movement party said in a statement on Saturday that it supports scientific research of and obligatory education about the crimes of 20th century totalitarian and authoritarian regimes. The opposition party issued the statement on the occasion of the European day of remembrance for victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, August 23, which, it said, is observed in a number of EU countries. As stressed in the European Parliament resolution of 19 September 2019 on the importance of remembrance for the future of Europe, Europe's tragic past should continue to serve as moral and political inspiration to…
Saturday, 22 August 2020
Minister Zdravko Maric Announces Cuts: Only Pensions are Safe
As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 21st of August, 2020, Finance Minister Zdravko Maric was a guest of Dnevnik Nova TV on which he revealed where the Croatian Government is planning cuts in order to "patch" the budget back up again, that is, which categories it will not touch. At the beginning, the Minister of Finance, Zdravko Maric, commented on the deficit in the state treasury of 17 billion kuna when compared to last year and said that the deficit due to the coronavirus crisis is actually even bigger. “This is a mid-year result that applies to both the period…
Friday, 21 August 2020
Decisions Related To Coronavirus Epidemic Not Political, Says Bozinovic
ZAGREB, Aug 21, 2020 - The head of the national COVID-19 response team, Davor Bozinovic, said on Friday that decisions regarding the coronavirus epidemic were not political decisions. "Tourism is an important economic sector in Croatia, however, we opened up based on scientific data about the virus not being so dangerous in the summertime, as evidenced by the latest clinical symptoms in patients. The assessment that it is possible to open up was an epidemiological one," Bozinovic told reporters when asked to comment on Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic's statement that the decision on the tourist season was a political one and to…
Friday, 21 August 2020
MP Grbin Hands In Candidacy For SDP Leader
ZAGREB, Aug 21, 2020 - SDP parliamentarian Pedja Grbin said on Friday that he had handed in his candidacy for the Social Democratic Party leader with almost 1,400 signatures in support of his presidential bid. Asked about another two candidates for the SDP presidency, Grbin said that Mirela Ahmetovic is an excellent mayor and Zeljko Kolar is an excellent county prefect and both are serious politicians and SDP members who, after the election could be a part of his team. Grbin said that SDP's defeat in the 5 July parliamentary elections should serve as a springboard for transforming the party for the better. …
Friday, 21 August 2020
Kolar Presents Candidacy For SDP Leader
ZAGREB, Aug 21, 2020 - Krapina-Zagorje County Prefect Zeljko Kolar on Friday presented his candidacy to run for the leadership of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) at the internal election, saying that he will advocate a modern Croatia with an efficient judicial system and a functioning market economy. "My desire to run as a candidate did not come overnight. That was not a spontaneous move but the product of my wish for more than necessary changes in the party," he claimed. He said that he would develop the SDP as a modern center-left party while overcoming rifts inside the SDP. Thinking…
Friday, 21 August 2020
Amendments To Four Laws On Tax Matters Put Up For Public Consultation
ZAGREB, Aug 21, 2020 - The Finance Ministry has put up for public consultation documents for amending four taxation laws: income tax, profit tax, and Value Added Tax laws and legislation on fiscal receipts in cash flow, the Jutarnji List daily said on Friday. The finance ministry recalls its promises on the continuation of the reduction of the tax burden and underlines that the income tax legislation will be amended with the aim of facilitating efforts to increase the amount of after-tax available income to citizens. To this aim, the income tax brackets will be lowered: the current 36% will be scaled down to 30%,…
Thursday, 20 August 2020
We Can! Says Government Not Adequately Prepared For School Year
ZAGREB, Aug 20, 2020 - Members of parliament from the We Can! the political platform said on Thursday that they were appalled that there was still no protocol or scenario for the beginning of the 2020/2021 school year, noting that the government was as prepared as the worst pupil before an exam. "We are appalled, alarmed and frustrated because what is happening now is something that we have been warning about and saying that it should not happen when it comes to the start of the school year," Tomislav Tomasevic, head of the We Can! the political platform told a…
Thursday, 20 August 2020
Aladrovic: Pensions Will Not Be Cut, Work From Home Should Be Regulated Better
ZAGREB, Aug 20, 2020 - Labour, Pension System, Family, and Social Policy Minister Josip Aladrovic said on Thursday that amendments to the Labour Act need to better regulate work from home, that 18,000 more people are working now than prior to the epidemic, and that pension allowances would certainly not be cut in the autumn. "We had previously said that we would amend the Labour Act and that we would alter labour legislation. One of the things we need to discuss with our social partners - the unions and employers - is work from home. That needs to be better regulated and better defined.…
Thursday, 20 August 2020
FM Expects Favourable Response From Countries Considering New Measures
ZAGREB, Aug 20, 2020 - Foreign and European Affairs Minister Gordan Grlic Radman said on Thursday that he today expected a positive response from certain countries that had been considering introducing new measures for Croatia and that Germany could keep the existing regulations for Croatia, with some modifications. "Yesterday I spoke with a colleague from Germany, and I think we can be sure that in line with the recommendation by their Robert Koch Institute (of public health) that country will keep the existing regulations for Croatia, with some modifications and probably recommendations for some regions in Croatia that they should…
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Pupils in First Four Grades of Primary School Will Not Wear Masks
ZAGREB, Aug 18, 2020 - Education Minister Radovan Fuchs said on Tuesday that the task force was working intensively on preparing measures for the start of the 2020/2021 school year on September 7 and that pupils from grades 1 to 4 would not be wearing masks. Fuchs had appointed a 23-member task force in charge of elaborating and proposing measures for the start of the 2020/2021 school year consisting of epidemiologists, representatives of education agencies, principals' associations, school and trade union founders, the coordinator of which is Ivana Pavic Simetin from the Croatian Public Health Institute (HZJZ). The measures must…
Tuesday, 18 August 2020
Grlic-Radman: Support to Bosnia and Herzegovina's EU Path and Quality of Croats
ZAGREB, Aug 18, 2020 - Croatia and the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) strongly support Bosnia and Herzegovina's European path and insist on amending the election law so that Croats in that country can be equal, Foreign Minister Gordan Grlic Radman said in Mostar on Tuesday, on the 30th anniversary of the founding of HDZ BiH. Grlic Radman attended the ceremony as an envoy for HDZ leader Andrej Plenkovic, and he along with a HDZ BiH delegation led by party leader Dragan Covic laid wreaths and lit candles in memory of Croatian veterans in Mostar's central square as well as attending the party's celebrations. "Croatia strongly advocates Bosnia…
