Politics

ZAGREB, March 12 (Hina) - Croatia has been exempted from the decision by US President Donald Trump on introducing a ban on most travel from Europe due to not being a Schengen Area member state. The ban takes effect on Friday at midnight, it will last for 30 days and will affect the 26 countries of the passport-free Schengen Area in Europe. In those states there have been most confirmed cases of the coronavirus infection outside mainland China. By March 11 there were 17,442 cases of infection and 711 cases of death, and the diseases was exported to 53 states.…

ZAGREB, March 12, 2020 - "The Truth about the Istanbul Convention" NGO filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights on Thursday after the Constitutional Court dismissed its complaints about signature verification and obstruction in certain areas of gathering signatures for a referendum on the Convention. "We consider the opinion of the Constitutional Court to be completely inadequate, even wrong, as confirmed by the dissenting opinion of Judge Miroslav Šumanović. The Constitutional Court either did not address our key complaints or dismissed them without a valid explanation," the group says in a leaflet which its activists handed out…

The Croatian demographic crisis is continuing to bite just as hard as it has ever done, with more and more Croatian youth abandoning the country and taking advantage of Croatia's EU membership for a better life and more economic stability in Western Europe, many feel the government has simple forgotten about them. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marta Duic writes on the 12th of March, 2020, in the Croatian capital of Zagreb at an EU conference, fifty experts discussed both opportunities and challenges. On Wednesday, Zagreb hosted a two-day meeting where the topic of not only Croatian youth, but youth from across the…

As far as Croatian companies are concerned, the most important thing for them is to ensure liquidity. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 12th of March, 2020, Finance Minister Maric made a guest appearance yesterday on RTL to talk about responses to the economic crisis that could be caused by the coronavirus outbreak. ''I understand, but with all due respect, I think that these are moments for constructive criticism, for us to put all our heads together, which is the message of today's meeting. I think a timely dialogue has been launched,'' Finance Minister Zdravko Maric said during his appearance on…

ZAGREB, March 11, 2020 - President Zoran Milanović on Wednesday expressed support to the Croatian Scientists for Climate - Appeal for Systematic Climate Action and their initiative to raise awareness of climate change and conduct activities to prevent the further worsening of that process globally. Milanović and his special adviser for energy and climate, Julije Domac met with the delegation of scientists from the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Ivo Pilar Institute, Zagreb University's Geophysics Department of the Faculty of Science, and the Engineering and Shipbuilding Faculty, who expressed their concern due to the increasingly evident consequences of climate change and the…

ZAGREB, March 11, 2020 - The initiators of a new political party in Croatia, called "Stranka s imenom i prezimenom" (Party with a First and Last Name) held a press conference in Zagreb on Wednesday to present their platform, saying that they would insist on unpopular but necessary reforms and the fight against corruption. "The result of this team's work is a political project which I believe will cause a political shock of final change after decades of stagnation in Croatia. We will insist on reforms because everyone's had enough of PR moves and cosmetics. We want to make radical…

ZAGREB, March 11, 2020 - The deputy president of the ruling HDZ party, Milijan Brkić, said on Wednesday that by removing the busts of Croatian greats from his office, President Zoran Milanović had minimised and rejected the history of Croats. In a Facebook post, Brkić said those busts were also "symbols of the love, sacrifice and fight for Croatia" and that all those who kept quiet about Milanovic removing them also minimised and rejected the history of Croats. We must resolutely and publicly condemn those who show with their acts that they don't respect Croatian history, Brkić said. He especially…

ZAGREB, March 11, 2020 - Croatian police will be deployed at the Greek-Turkish border as of Wednesday as part of an operation conducted by the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, known as Frontex, the Ministry of the Interior said in a statement on Tuesday. Four Croatian police officers were sent to Greece on Tuesday to help guard the Greek-Turkish land border as part of Frontex's Rapid Border Intervention 2020 mission. The operation is being launched on Greece's request and in accordance with the European Border and Coast Guard regulation. It starts on 11 March and ends on 6 May…

ZAGREB, March 11, 2020 - European heads of state and government, with the participation of the European Commission and the European Central Bank, are looking to devise a European response to the coronavirus epidemic, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said during a visit to Škabrnja, inland from the coastal city of Zadar, on Tuesday. "We as the Croatian presidency of the Council of the EU took measures even before the World Health Organisation declared the emergency," Plenković said, adding that Croatia had taken steps through the integrated crisis response mechanism already on 28 January. He said that all countries were currently…

March 10, 2020 - There isn’t any amount money that would lure us back to Croatia, according to emigrants who responded to Prime Minister Plenković's recent financial incentive proposal to encourage their return. Croatian politicians and PM Andrej Plenković are clearly not listening to what emigrants are saying. Money is not the only reason they left, and it’s not even the main reason. Uhljeb | Facebook Croatia Mindset Must Change by 300 Percent The mindset would have to change by 300 percent me to return to Croatia, explained a Zagreb man to Anamarija Burazer/24 Sata on March 10, 2020. He…