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ZAGREB, 11 May 2022 - President Zoran Milanović said on Wednesday that justice and morality in the case of Mirela Čavajda were on her side and as a general rule, the state was the one that should ensure assistance for women so that the situation in which all gynaecologists refused to perform abortions would not occur. Čavajda is a 39-year-old who has requested a pregnancy termination because the fetus has been diagnosed with massive brain cancer six months into her pregnancy. She recently told the Index web portal that all the hospitals in Zagreb she contacted had refused to do a…

ZAGREB, 11 May 2022 - 6 people have died of COVID-19 and 960 new infections have been registered in Croatia in the last 24 hours, while the number of active cases stands at 4,758, the national coronavirus crisis management team said on Wednesday. A total of 367 patients are hospitalised, including 15 who are on ventilators, while 2,154 persons are self-isolating. A total of 4,874 persons have been tested in the last 24 hours. To date, Croatia has registered 1,129,199 coronavirus cases, 15,905 deaths, and 68.70% of the adult population has completed vaccination.

May the 11th, 2022 - The global giant OYO Rooms has taken over the Croatian Direct Booker which has its origins in Dubrovnik and is eyeing further European expansion. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, with the aim of further expansion across Europe, the global online platform for tourist accommodation, OYO Rooms, has taken over the Croatian Direct Booker, an online agency founded in Dubrovnik which specialises in the management of units for tourist accommodation and technology development. The founders of Direct Booker, Nino Dubretic and Nikola Grubelic, as well as IT expert Ivan Bogoje, remain within the company's management, and with…

May the 11th, 2022 - The Rudjer Boskovic Institute's new project which analyses proteins could be the key to a more rapid diagnosis. It can also be applied in many fields, from medicine to biological product quality control. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Marija Crnjak writes, on Monday, the Rudjer Boskovic Institute (RBI) presented its project of qualitative and quantitative analysis of proteins worth more than eight million kuna, which, in addition to very wide application in industry, aims to shorten a large number of diagnostic tests. The Qua / Qua Protein project is being implemented by the Institute in cooperation with Conscius,…

May the 11th, 2022 - The Hungarian PM Viktor Orban is known for his rather unusual political sentiments, but this one probably takes the cake. He recently claimed that Croatia ''took Hungary's sea'', leaving it without ports. This was said in front of Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission's President. As Morski writes, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban yesterday over Hungary's opposition to the European Union's joint embargo on Russian oil. Von der Leyen said after the meeting that progress had been made and that some issues with Orban had been…

May the 11th, 2022 - The Croatian company Sobocan's innovative product has seen the company take home bronze at the A’Design Award & Competition, placing Croatian products firmly at the forefront once again. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, following a series of international awards, the mobile office made by the Croatian company Sobocan won a bronze medal at the A’Design Award & Competition, which is known as the leading international design competition. According to the expert jury, bronze was awarded to the company for their movo model THE FREE SPIRIT. The movo is available in seven different models, all of which are characterised…

May 11, 2022 - Former Dinamo leader and fugitive football mogul Zdravko Mamić, who was sentenced to six and a half years in prison in Croatia for illegally extracting 52 million kuna from the Zagreb club, filed a lawsuit with the European Court for human rights. Telegram finds out that the lawsuit was sent to Strasbourg, from which Mamić expects to establish that the court proceedings against him at the Osijek County Court were not fair. Instead, he sued Croatia precisely for violating the right to a fair trial and the presumption of innocence and illegally confiscating property from his wife.…

May 11, 2022 - Osijek native Mia Dimšić represented Croatia with the song 'Guilty Pleasure' on the first semifinal night of the Eurovision Song Contest but failed to reach the final of the competition. Dimšić performed 11th out of a total of 17 performers. Apart from Croatia, Albania, Latvia, Lithuania, Switzerland, Slovenia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, the Netherlands, Moldova, Portugal, Denmark, Austria, Iceland, Greece, Norway, and Armenia competed.  Croatia's Eurovision representative did her best and said she left her heart on the stage. The night before the semifinals, Mia said that she felt proud and euphoric. Still, she also admitted that she was a…

May 11, 2022 - The latest flight news to Croatia as six Brač Airport routes from Zagreb, Italy, Austria, and Slovakia have been announced this summer! In April this year, Brač Airport accepted and dispatched 137 passengers, most of whom flew on the domestic line to Zagreb, which had just begun operating. And now, six flights to Brač Airport have been announced for this year's summer flight schedule, reports Croatian Aviation.  Namely, this year, Brač Airport will again be directly connected to Zagreb by the regular PSO line of the Croatian national airline, Croatia Airlines. This line already operates every…

ZAGREB, 10 May 2022 - Human Rights Ombudsman Tena Šimonović Einwalter has joined calls to ensure that women in Croatia are not denied medical assistance when requesting a pregnancy termination in accordance with the applicable laws. During a discussion on the treatment by Zagreb's Sveti Duh Hospital and the healthcare system of Mirela Čavajda, a woman who has requested a pregnancy termination because the fetus has been diagnosed with massive brain cancer, Šimonović Einwalter said that the regulations should be interpreted by taking into account women's health and decisions. She said that women should be provided with full information, while the system…