Politics
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
PM Plenković and World Champion Carlsen Open Chess Tournament in Zagreb
ZAGREB, 19 July 2022 - The tournament called "SuperUnited Croatia Grand Chess Rapid&Blitz" within the Grand Chess Tour 2022 kicked off in Zagreb on Tuesday at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Andrej Plenković. The tournament that will run through 24 July features the world champion, Norwegian Magnus Carlsen as well as Alireza Firouzja, an Iranian-French chess player, Ian Nepomniachtchi, a Russian chess Grandmaster, Wesley So, a Filipino American chess Grandmaster, then Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, an Azerbaijani chess Grandmaster who is a two-time World Junior Champion (2003 and 2005) and a three-time European Team Champion, French Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, who is currently the No. 1 ranked player in France as well…
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Union Announces Strike of Croatian Flight Controllers Over Burnout Issues
ZAGREB, 19 July 2022 - The HSSKL trade union of Croatian flight controllers on Tuesday said that its members will go on strike at 0700 hrs Thursday over burnout and exhaustion issues. On the first day of their industrial action, the number of planes flying over Croatia will be reduced to 40% of the total prescribed capacity, and the traffic at airports will not be affected until Saturday. However, on 23 July the union threatens to reduce the capacity of the total planned planes at all the Croatian airports, except in Osijek, by 50%. The HSSKL union today expressed hope that the unionists…
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Zagreb Pride Welcomes Ruling Against Two Homophobes
ZAGREB, 19 July 2022 - The Zagreb Pride NGO has welcomed a trial court ruling that found two members of an amateur singing group from Gudinci, eastern Croatia, guilty of discrimination because they expelled two other members from the group just because they were gay. The court fully upheld the complaint by the two gay men and fined the two homophobic members of the group HRK 15,000 (€2,000) each, the NGO said on Tuesday. This fair outcome was possible thanks to the determination and persistence of the two gay men who would not allow being humiliated, insulted, and discriminated against and…
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Croatian Embassy Strongly Condemns Accusation by German Green Youth
ZAGREB, 19 July 2022 - The Croatian Embassy in Germany has strongly condemned the accusation by the youth organization of the German Greens party that, apart from Serbia, Croatia was also responsible for the 1995 Srebrenica genocide. Commenting on the tweet by the Green Youth marking the 27th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, in which Croatia was named as being responsible for the genocide of Bosniaks in Srebrenica, "we condemn in the strongest terms such revisionist accusations," the Croatian Embassy said on Twitter on Monday. The youth organization of the Greens party, which is a member of the three-party ruling coalition, posted…
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Croatian Poverty Risk Less, But 70% Only Just Making Ends Meet
July the 19th, 2022 - There is a generally lower Croatian poverty risk, but despite that, around 70% of the population is still only just managing to make ends meet. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Josipa Ban writes, last year, every fifth person in the Republic of Croatia was at risk of poverty and social exclusion, or 20.9 percent of them, according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). This is a small improvement compared to back in 2019 and 2020. The decline in terms of Croatian poverty risk is weak, especially when you take into account that the economic growth…
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
102 Million Kuna Being Provided for Croatian Local Self-Government Units
July the 19th, 2022 - The state is set to ensure a massive 102 million kuna payout to Croatian local self-government units across the country in order to raise the overall quality of life of their residents. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Brnic writes, the state will help improve the quality of life in cities and municipalities with a total payment of 102 million kuna to various Croatian local self-government units, which is the total value of approved projects for co-financing at the public tender of the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Construction and State Property. This amount will be divided into a…
Tuesday, 19 July 2022
The Countdown is On! Croatian Euro Coin Production Officially Begins
July the 19th, 2022 - Croatian euro coin production has officially kicked off as the country's accession to the Eurozone rapidly approaches, marked out on the calendar to take place on the 1st of January, 2023. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, on Monday the 18th of July, 2022, Croatian euro coin production finally began at the Croatian Mint in Sveta Nedelja near the City of Zagreb, and Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic (HDZ) and Governor of the Croatian National Bank (CNB) Boris Vujcic both attended the ceremony marking the start of production as Croatia's entry into the Eurozone draws ever closer and…
Monday, 18 July 2022
Vukovar 1991 Association of Lawyers Calls on Vučić to Allow Visit to Stajićevo
ZAGREB, 18 July 2022 - The Vukovar 1991 association of lawyers on Monday called on Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić to fulfill his promise and make it possible for the association and former Croatian camp inmates to make the agreed visit to the former Stajićevo prisoner of war camp. In a press release, the association recalls that six years ago, on 16 July 2016, through the mediation of German lawmaker Josip Juratović and the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the then Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić received an official delegation of the lawyers' association Vukovar 1991, which consisted of Zoran…
Monday, 18 July 2022
Plenković: Vučić Will Pay a Visit When the Time is Right
ZAGREB, 18 July 2022 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Monday that Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's visit to Croatia cannot be private because of political implications and that it will come about when the time is right. Vučić has expressed a wish to visit the Jasenovac memorial centre privately, but has been denied clearance from the Croatian authorities to visit the site of the WWII concentration camp. "We have learned unofficially that he wishes to pay a visit on Sunday, but without a formal announcement that should precede any visit, especially of this nature. No matter how discreet he…
Monday, 18 July 2022
Minister Says Petrol to Cost HRK 13.02, Diesel 13.43 per Litre in Next 2 Weeks
ZAGREB, 18 July 2022 - Economy Minister Davor Filipović said on Monday that for the next fortnight the price of petrol would be HRK 13.02 per litre, down from HRK 13.50, while the price of diesel would go up from HRK 13.08 to HRK 13.43. Also, fuel prices on motorways and elsewhere will be equated and the government will extend the price cap on blue-dyed diesel to HRK 9.45 per litre for another two weeks, he told the press after a government conference call. The retail margin stays HRK 0.65 per litre of petrol and diesel, as do excises of…
Sunday, 17 July 2022
Croatia Slams Vučić's Plan for Impromptu Visit as Being Against Protocol, Malicious
ZAGREB, 17 July 2022 - Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić's intention to come on an announced, private visit to Jasenovac is against the protocols, because a head of state is a protected person, and visits by presidents require official preparations, Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Grlić Radman said on Sunday. The Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Ministry sent a protest note to Belgrade on Friday over this case, the minister told the press outside the ministry's building today. The protocol has been violated, said Grlić Radman elaborating that visits by presidents and office-holders must be announced to the host country and require…
