Politics

ZAGREB, 2 June 2022 - Rainbow Warrior, a Greenpeace boat active in supporting a number of anti-whaling, anti-nuclear testing and anti-nuclear waste dumping campaigns during the late 1970s and early 1980s, is currently visiting the Croatian city of Šibenik. The vessel is open to the public from 2 to 4 June. The purpose of its visit is to promote a European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) aimed at banning fossil fuel advertising and sponsorships. This is the third visit of this ship in Croatia after it toured our country in 2014 and 2017. For more, check out our politics section.

May 2, 2022 - The Health Inspectorate has initiated misdemeanor proceedings against KB Sveti Duh and director Ana-Marija Šimundić for violating the rights of Mirela Čavajda, who was denied information when the powers that be were deciding on her request for the termination of her pregnancy. The case of Mirela Čavajda, a 39-year-old pregnant woman whose request to have an abortion during the 26th week of pregnancy after the fetus was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor was rejected by four hospitals in Zagreb, and caused enormous outrage across the country last month, with demands for the reproductive rights and healthcare rights of Croatian women to…

ZAGREB, 2 June 2022 - In the last 24 hours, 486 coronavirus cases, out of 2,891 tests, and four related deaths have been registered in Croatia, the national COVID-19 crisis management team said on Thursday. There are 2,091 active cases, including 202 hospitalised patients, six of whom are on ventilators, while 688 persons are self-isolating. To date Croatia has registered 1,137,192 coronavirus cases, the death toll stands at 15,995, and 70.80% of the adult population has been vaccinated, including 68.75% fully.   For all you need to know about coronavirus specific to Croatia, make sure to bookmark our dedicated section and select your…

ZAGREB, 2 June 2022 - In the first five months of this year, HRK 8.2 billion worth of receipts were fiscalised in tourism and hospitality, up by 155% on the same time last year and by 17% on 2019, the Tourism Ministry said on Thursday, citing Tax Administration data. These results are an excellent indicator of the interest in Croatia, which is important for further stimulating year-round business, Minister Nikolina Brnjac said in a press release. This year to date, we have recorded 10 million nights almost a month earlier than last year, she said, adding that the value of fiscalised receipts…

ZAGREB, 2 June 2022 - British Minister of State for Europe and North America James Cleverly visited Infobip's Alpha Centauri Campus in Zagreb on Wednesday and talked about the presence of that global communication platform from Croatia in the UK, the Infobip IT company said on Thursday.  A press release notes that Cleverly was accompanied by British Ambassador to Croatia Simon Thomas during the visit. Infobip has almost 400 clients on the British market and it has two offices in London with just over one hundred employees. During the meeting, emphasis was placed on the potential to use Infobip's solutions in the public sector.…

ZAGREB, 2 June 2022 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Thursday Croatia was one of the EU member states outside the euro area which had met all the criteria for membership in the European economic and monetary union, whereby one of the government's strategic goals has been achieved. Speaking after a meeting with the European Commission Executive Vice President for An Economy that Works for People, Valdis Dombrovskis, Plenković said Croatian officials had the opportunity to hear the Commission's assessments on its convergence report on Croatia and the other countries still outside the euro area. "Such a positive report on Croatia is very…

June the 2nd, 2022 - The Croatian economic expectations which were looking promising over the last few weeks have dropped since May this year owing to continuing inflation worries. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Croatian economic expectations worsened during the month of May 2022 as a wave of pessimism among consumers in the face of high ongoing inflation outweighed improved retail sentiment, a European Commission (EC) report found. The Economic Climate Index (ESI) in the Republic if Croatia fell by 0.8 points during the month of May compared to the revised value we could read about in April, amounting to 110.1 points.…

ZAGREB, 1 June 2022 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said at a European People's Party (EPP) congress Wednesday that the EPP should be the leading political force in condemning and imposing sanctions against Russia and that Ukraine deserved European Union candidate status. Speaking at the 27th EPP Congress in Rotterdam, Plenković said that the Russian aggression, which has lasted for more than three months, was not just military, but that it violated international law and denied the Ukrainian nation and identity. "We, as the EPP, express our solidarity, support and sympathy for the Ukrainian people, who are fighting for freedom and for…

ZAGREB, 1 June 2022 - More than 6,800 children have arrived in Croatia from war-torn Ukraine and 182 are being accommodated in Hotel Zagreb in Duilovo, Split, Labour and Social Policy Minister Marin Piletić said on Wednesday while visiting a group of refugee children located in the hotel. These are children aged between 8 and 16 and mostly play for the Shakhtar football club or some other Ukrainian clubs whose stay was arranged by a former prominent Croatian football player Dario Srna, it was said during Piletić's visit. "We thank everyone who is helping these children. We wish these children ther return…

ZAGREB, 1 June 2022 - The European People's Party (EPP) adopted a resolution at its conference in Rotterdam on Wednesday, calling for electoral and constitutional reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina in line with decisions by international courts and the BiH Constitutional Court. The "emergency resolution", tabled by the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) calls for "electoral reforms to be addressed swiftly in an inclusive manner while complying with the requirements of EU membership." As the largest group in the European Parliament the EPP believes that it is necessary to implement "electoral and constitutional reforms, in line with both EU principles and international and constitutional court decisions, which…