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ZAGREB, 19 August, 2022 - Croatia's Vanesa Tot on Friday won the bronze in the final race in the event called "the women's canoe single 500m" in Munich during the European Championships. Tot, the first Croatian woman canoeist who competed in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, finished the race in Munich with a time 2:06.682, . being by 3.096 seconds slower than the European champion, Spaniard Maria Corbero. The silver went to Ukrainian Liudmyla Luzan.  On Sunday, the 23-year-old Tot will compete in the final race of the event, "the women's canoe single 200m".

ZAGREB, 19 Aug (Hina) - In the last 24 hours, Croatia has registered 1,025 cases of infection with coronavirus, and the disease has taken another seven lives, bringing the COVID-related death toll to 16,552, according to information provided by the national COVID-19 crisis management team on Friday. There are currently 6,826  active cases, including 610 hospitalised patients, and of them, 28 are placed on ventilators. So far, Croatia's health authorities have detected over 1.2 million cases of this infectious disease, and over 5.1 million tests have been performed, including 3,380 in the last 24 hours. Regarding vaccination, 70.86% of adults in the country have been…

August the 19th, 2022 - Croatian marinas and berths up and down the coastline as full, with people finding it more and more difficult to find a free berth anywhere. Croatian nautical tourism is showing just what a wealth of potential it has. As Morski writes, back during the global coronavirus pandemic, those visiting Croatia by boat proved to be the most loyal and resilient guests of all. They didn't give up on their holidays and docking in Croatian marinas even during intermittent lockdowns. Therefore, it isn't remotely surprising that this year there have been and continue to be some…

August the 19th, 2022 - Croatian Tourism Minister Nikolina Brnjac has discussed upcoming changes that private renters renting out their properties to visiting tourists should be aware of as the Croatian tourism strategy looks at bumping up the hotel share in the bigger picture. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, Tourism Minister Nikolina Brnjac recently spoke about the strategy of Croatian tourism, the current summer season and numbers for HRT. The share of hotels in accommodation in Croatia is still unsatisfactory, despite the fact that the most recent Croatian tourism strategy was to increase the share of hotels in total accommodation to 18%…

August the 19th, 2022 - The Brodosplit shipyard is continuing to face significant problems, but it seems that a saviour has come at the last moment in the form of a contract between the famous Dalmatian shipyard and the American Storylines company. Debeljak's troubled company will build the massive vessel, the estimated retail sales value of which stands at US $1.5B As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Brnic writes, Brodosplit is currently suffering the fate of both the Uljanik and 3 Maj shipyards in the form of attracting negative attention with press reports about the pre-bankruptcy process of its companies. Despite the fact that Brodosplit's…

August the 19th, 2022 - The Republic of Croatia plans to position itself as one of the leaders on the new energy map of the European Union (EU), and this will be made possible by the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan for the period from 2022 to 2024 and the decision on the expansion of the LNG terminal on the island of Krk, which the Government made at a recently held session. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Darko Bicak writes, to speak more specifically, the move regards the decision to build the Zlobin - Bosiljevo gas pipeline and increase the capacity of the…

August 18, 2022 - Villarreal dominates in the Conference League play-off first leg, beating Hajduk 4:2 in Spain.  Villarreal and Hajduk met on Thursday in Valencia, Spain, for a spot in the Conference League group stage.  Hajduk has been waiting 12 years for a spot in the group stage of a European competition. Tonight, they met last year's Champions League semi-finalist and Europa League champions the season before that, knocking out Dinamo Zagreb on their way to the title. Villarreal had not seen defeat in their last ten games and recorded victories against Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund, and Inter. Villarreal is led by…

ZAGREB, 18 August, 2022 - The nongovernmental association called "Island Movement (Pokret Otoka)" stated on Thursday that the sea and transport ministry's response to its recent statement in which it criticises the draft legislation on maritime domain and seaports only deepened the association's suspicions. The ministry's explanations about "allegedly clear, elaborated, and transparent rules" have additional deepened our concerns about the "bleak scenario" of cordoning off beaches and restricted access for the public. The association finds Articles 11 and 46 of the future law contentious. Article 11 envisages a possibility of general use restrictions of segments of the maritime domain and also exceptions in which those…

ZAGREB, 18 August, 2022 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković on Thursday announced that the government was working on a package of measures to curb inflation and energy prices, underscoring that VAT on solar panels would be cut to zero percent. The prime minister also said they would help companies owned by local government units and entrepreneurs who are given unfavoruable gas supply contracts. At the beginning of a government meeting, PM Plenković commented on the gas supply for the winter season, saying that the Okoli underground gas storage facility was filling up at an accelerated pace, that it was currently 68% full,…

ZAGREB, 18 August, 2022 - The Croatian government on Thursday decided to invest €180 million in the construction of the Zlobin-Bosiljevo gas pipeline and the upgrade of the LNG terminal on Krk so that its capacity could be raised to 6.1 billion cubic metres of gas annually. "This is a strategic decision; we are increasing the capacity of the LNG terminal on the island of Krk twofold, and the construction of a new pipeline will start to the aim of strengthening the gas supply security in Croatia," Economy and Sustainable Development Minister, Davor Filipović, said at the government's meeting. The…