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Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Croatian American Sports Hall of Fame Announced 10-Member Inaugural 2022 Class
July 13, 2022 - The Croatian American Sports Hall of Fame (CAS-HOF) announced its Inaugural Hall of Fame Class during the National Federation of Croatian Americans Cultural Foundation (NFCACF) 29th Annual Assembly of Delegates. The ten-member Inaugural 2022 Class includes athletes from six different sports: three from basketball and two from baseball, two from hockey and one golfer, one swimmer/diver and one NFL football player. The Selection Committee of the Croatian American Sports Hall of Fame announced the following inductees on July 2, 2022: Fred Couples, Helen Crlenkovich, John Havlicek, Mickey Lolich, Roger Maris, Kevin McHale, George Mikan, Mark Pavelich,…
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Breakfast in Split 2022: Your Guide to Morning Bites
July 13, 2022 - Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but that hasn't always been the case in Split. That is, until recently. A look at breakfast in Split 2022. As someone that grew up in southern California on breakfast burritos, loaded scrambles, crispy hashbrowns, eggs benny, and a neverending display of pancakes from the local diner, breakfast has always been my favorite meal. But on my visits to Croatia over the past 20 years before moving here 7 years ago, breakfast was hardly a meal to remember. In 1996, I remember mornings eating oversized pieces of…
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Dinamo Learns First Opponent in Champions League Qualifiers
July 13, 2022 - The Croatian champion Dinamo and the Macedonian champion KF Shkupi will meet in the 2nd round of the Champions League qualifiers on July 19. The 2021/22 Croatian football champion Dinamo found out their opponent in the 2nd qualifying round of the Champions League. It will be the Macedonian club KF Shkupi, based in Čair, Skopje. As expected, Dinamo will open their European tour this season against the Macedonian champion, but the Gibraltarian champion Lincoln Red Imps were on the verge of a shocking upset. The Macedonian team, led by the former player of Dinamo Zagreb and coach of…
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years: 5. Love to Hate to Nirvana
July 13, 2022 - Twenty years a foreigner in Croatia. Part 5 of 20 Ways Croatia Changed Me in 20 Years - the 3 stages of learning as a foreigner: love, hate and nirvana. As with most things in life, my relationship with Croatia has changed over the last 20 years. I have been wowed by its beauty, felled by its bureaucracy, inspired by its brilliant people, depressed by the default negative mindset, and humbled by the kindness, hospitality and friendship on all levels. As a foreigner, I don't think one can ever get to know a country or its…
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Promet Split E-Tickets Finally Here: How to Get Yours
July 13, 2022 - The long-awaited Promet Split e-tickets are finally here and in practice on all 155 buses in the fleet. The long wait in front of the ticket offices is finally over! Promet Split started creating contactless personalized tickets for specific categories of passengers in the new ticketing system, reports Slobodna Dalmacija. The current passengers in the new ticketing system are: pupils and students who have a summer promotion, so their monthly ticket costs HRK 100, then people over 65 years old, voluntary blood donors, and family members of missing and fallen soldiers. As reported by Promet, production…
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Website www.euro.hr With Information About Euro Adoption Launched
ZAGREB, 12 July 2022 - The Croatian government and National Bank (HNB) on Tuesday activated the www.euro.hr website with all necessary information about the euro adoption as soon as the European Union's Ecofin completed the process of decision-making on welcoming Croatia to the euro area on 1 January 2023. The website will be updated on a regular basis. The HNB says that the general public, businesses, media outlets, and all interested parties can access the website to get information about the determined conversion rate of the kuna for the euro, dual display of prices, motifs of the euro coins minted in…
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Milanović Meets Malta's Parliament and Government Officials in Valletta
ZAGREB, 12 July 2022 - Croatia's President Zoran Milanović held meetings with the Speaker of the Maltese House of Representatives, Anġlu Farrugia, Prime Minister Robert Abela and the Opposition's leader Bernard Grech, on Tuesday, the last day of his two-day state visit to Malta. On Monday, he was received by his host, Malta's President George Vella, for the talks on Croatia's aspirations to join the Schengen Area, Malta's experience in the changeover to the euro and the status of the Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina. These topics were also on the agenda of the meetings with the Maltese officials on Tuesday. Vella invited…
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Croatian Parliament Speaker Receives Montenegrin PM
ZAGREB, 12 July 2022 - Croatian Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković on Tuesday received the visiting Montenegrin Prime Minister, Dritan Abazović, the Sabor said in a press release. The two officials reaffirmed very good relations between their countries, based on mutual respect and constructive cooperation, notably within NATO. They highlighted the importance of further integration of southeastern European countries in the European Union membership. The repercussions of Russia's aggression against Ukraine were also on the agenda of the Jandroković-Abazović meeting. For more, check out our politics section.
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Without New Residents and Foreign Workers, Difficult to Maintain a Welfare State
ZAGREB, 12 July 2022 - Without new residents and bringing in workers from abroad, Croatia cannot maintain a welfare state, it was said on Tuesday at a conference - "How to boost economic development with labor policies and continuous investment in education" - at the Lavoslav Ružička Polytechnic in Vukovar. The director-general of the Croatian Employers' Association (HUP) Damir Zorić assessed that a large part of today's unemployed people in Croatia fall into the category of hard-to-employ and those whom the labour market can hardly count on. "The second part of the problem is young people leaving the country and…
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
The Beckhams Celebrate 23rd Wedding Anniversary on Lopud Island
July 12, 2022 - One of the most famous couples in the world chose Croatia to mark their wedding anniversary, as the Beckhams celebrated 23 years of marriage on the island of Lopud. Since 1997, the couple began to appear on the covers of all newspapers, tabloids, and magazines around the world. One of them - the former star of Manchester United, and the other - the star of one of the most popular pop bands in the world. David Beckham met Victoria Adams after she attended a United match, and the relationship immediately garnered massive media attention. David proposed to…
Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Legal Acts on Croatia's Entry Into Euro Area Signed at Ceremony in Brussels
ZAGREB, 12 July 2022 - The ceremony of signing the three final legal acts necessary for Croatia to adopt the euro on 1 January was held in Brussels on Tuesday, whereby the decision-making process for Croatia's entry into the euro area was completed. One of those legal acts adopted by the European Union's Economic and Financial Council (Ecofin) sets the conversion rate between the euro and the Croatian kuna at 7.53450 kuna for 1 euro. The rate corresponds to the current central rate of the kuna in the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II). Another of the three acts concerns the decision on…
