Politics

ZAGREB, 24 June 2021 - The president of the Zagreb Jewish Community, Ognjen Kraus, called on Thursday for banning the "For the homeland ready" salute as well as Ustasha insignia and the denial of Ustasha crimes in the name of the thousands killed under the Ustasha salute. Speaking at the Jadovno 1941 Remembrance Day commemoration, Kraus said he was making his appeal on behalf of the thousands who were killed at Jadovno and other Ustasha death camps in the 1941-45 Independent State of Croatia (NDH), or who were taken to Nazi death camps. Kraus also called for banning the denial of the existence of concentration and death…

ZAGREB, 24 June (Hina) - Every EU member state should make its own decisions on measures for curbing the pandemic based on its own assessments, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in Brussels on Thursday ahead of a two-day summit. "So far we have been in favor of a situation where every state and every public health system is able to make decisions based on its own assessments. We have been functioning that way all this time," Plenković said. One of the topics of the summit is a debate on a coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also, there will…

ZAGREB, 24 June 2021 - Social Democratic Party MP Arsen Bauk said on Thursday the incumbent parliament would not succeed in appointing a new Supreme Court president because of the "tough cohabitation" between Prime Minister Andrej Plenković and President Zoran Milanović. MPs today debated Milanović's candidate for that post, Zlata Đurđević. The ruling majority and part of the opposition said they would not vote for her tomorrow. The debate convinced us that she is a good candidate but will not be elected because there is no agreement between Milanović and Plenković, Bauk said, adding that the "biggest compliment" to Đurđević was that the ruling HDZ party was against…

ZAGREB, 24 June 2021 - Croatian Minister of Science and Technology Radovan Fuchs and Hungary's Minister for Human Resources Miklós Kásler on Thursday signed a program of cooperation in education and science for the period 2021 to 2025.  "The document additionally testifies to the exceptionally good, friendly, harmonic relations between Croatia and Hungary. The centuries-long history of our two peoples comes to full expression in cooperation and friendly relations," said Minister Fuchs. He underscored that the way the issue of the Hungarian minority in Croatia and the Croatian minority in Hungary, all the rights that national minorities enjoy, is definitely an example of how…

June 24, 2021 - To further strengthen economic cooperation and cultural exchanges between Croatia and Romania, a Romanian-Croatian bilateral meeting was held in Split today. The Romanian delegation led by the Ambassador of Romania to the Republic of Croatia, H. E. Constantin - Mihail Grigorie also celebrated the "International Day of the Romanian Blouse", which is observed today by Romanians around the world. Ambassador of Romania to the Republic of Croatia, H. E. Constantin - Mihail Grigorie, pointed out that today's event takes place in conditions in which the Romanian-Croatian cooperation is growing, which was contributed by the previous mutual…

June 24, 2021 - Following the professor Slavko Krajcar Death on June 18, take a look at the life of an established educator and scientist whose expertise made a significant contribution to Croatian politics in the energy sector. „The influence of a teacher can never be erased“, or as an American historian Henry Brook Adams put it, „Teachers affect eternity; no one can tell where their influence stops“- these two are just some of the inspirational quotes about teachers you can find with a little assistance from Google. Students at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER) at the University…

June 23, 2021 - The ninth article in the series, "Friends of Croatia: Croatian Protocol Guide", brings you more details from the Protocol guide for diplomatic missions accredited to the Republic of Croatia issued by the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs to ease the arrival of the foreign diplomatic representatives to Croatia. With diplomatic immunity already being mentioned in this series, we saw that the Croatian Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (MVEP) following the terms of the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, dedicated a special part to diplomatic immunity in its Protocol guide for diplomatic missions accredited…

ZAGREB, 23 June, 2021 - The first meeting of a task force to prepare a new Labour Act was held on Wednesday and social partners said that it was conducted peacefully without any complex issues and that it is expected that the law, which will more clearly define "remote work," among other things, should go into force mid-next year. After months of consultation, it has been decided that a new Labour Act will be prepared, one that is appropriate to contemporary circumstances, state-secretary in the Labour Ministry Dragan Jelić said. The act needs to introduce novelties that emerged during the pandemic, such…

ZAGREB, 23 June, 2021 - Documents that were confiscated from the Dubrovnik State Archives and were found in the Salzburg Diocese Archives were handed over on Wednesday in the presence of Croatia's Minister of Culture and Media Nina Obuljen Koržinek and Croatia's Ambassador to Austria Danijel Glunčić. The operation ended successfully with the return of Croatia's cultural heritage, Minister Obuljen Koržinek said, noting this isn't the first or last time this has been done. Ambassador Glunčić underscored that the Salzburg Diocese had full understanding that the medieval documents could not be considered to be part of Austria's or Salzburg's history. The documents involved are…

June 23, 2021 - Youth Work in Flux Conference held in Rijeka mid-June saw scholars, researchers, scientists, and professionals discuss and present their work in the domain of youth work. With more and more concern invested in youth in Croatia (both academically and professionally), June 15-17 saw Rijeka as the host of the conference titled „Youth work in flux: an academic point of view on youth work training and education“. The conference was organized by the Institute for Social Research in Zagreb and partners: University of Rijeka and Slovenian University of Ljubljana held as part of the Erasmus + project Supporting Evidence-based…