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April the 3rd, 2022 - The Rijeka Veterinary Institute is set to present a praiseworthy project which discusses sustainable fish farming in the Adriatic Sea - AdriAquaNet, with various guidelines involved. As Morski writes, on Tuesday, April the 5th, 2022, the Rijeka Veterinary Institute will present its extensive sustainable fish farming project called AdriAquaNet - Strengthening Innovation and Sustainability in Adriatic Aquaculture. The main goal of the project is to strengthen sustainable aquaculture in the Adriatic Sea using advanced knowledge and new technologies. The whole chain is covered - from production in the fish farm itself to the placement of that…

April the 3rd, 2022 - A total of 102 teams from all parts of Croatia (Zagreb, Krapina, Rijeka, Osijek, and Split) went through the BAIF project's investment readiness programme. As Poslovni Dnevnik writes, these Croatian teams have as such completed the very first phase of the BAIF project with the ultimate goal of developing an alternative capital market aimed at investing in entrepreneurs and enterprises which are just getting off the ground and which carry with them the possibility of generating social impact. The ambassadors of investments in projects with a positive social impact These are all entrepreneurial ideas that…

April the 3rd, 2022 - Two retired Ukrainian artists were living their normal lives in the Lviv region of their homeland until the Russian invasion, and in that short period everything changed from them, seeing them relocate from the climes of a grey Ukrainian winter to the mild and sunny Croatian island of Vir. As Morski/Kazimir Skrbic writes, just several days ago, retired Ukrainian artists Lyudmila and Mikhail Rymik were living their normal lives in the familiar ambience of their home in the immediate vicinity of Stryi, a city of about sixty thousand inhabitants located in western Ukraine in the Lviv…

April the 3rd, 2022 - The Solin-based company Include has been making headlines more or less since its very creation, and for all the right reasons. This innovative company, headed by young and ambitious Croatian entrepreneur Ivan Mrvos, has made quite the global name for itself. Mrvos' newest creation has found its home in Slavonia. As Poslovni Dnevnik/Lucija Spiljak writes, the Croatian company Include has officially installed its very first Aerys G air quality monitoring station, and the first location is the Donji Miholjac industrial zone in Slavonia. To briefly recall, back in late October last year, Include introduced its…

April 2, 2022 - This was the third extremely close game within 96 hours for KK Split who was welcomed very warmly by their officially reported 2000 fans at Gripe after the 81:80 victory on Thursday against Mega Belgrade and the 77:78 defeat against Zadar on Tuesday. Srđan Subotić, coach of Split had again called for help from the bleachers after it had worked well last time: "This rhythm continues every other day. FMP is an athletic team, and extremely energetic. FMP is playing a great season, they come motivated and full of desire to win. We play at home, the…

ZAGREB, 2 April 2022 - The flag of the Serb minority has again been removed from the building housing the Serb Minority Council in the northern city of Varaždin, the local organisation of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) said on Saturday, condemning this incident as an act of hatred. The Serb minority flag was removed some time between Friday afternoon and 10 am on Saturday, when the police were notified, while all other flags were left in place, Marina Kolarić, spokeswoman for the Varaždin Police Department, confirmed to Hina. She said a criminal investigation was under way. The incident was sharply…

ZAGREB, 2 April 2022 - The Chairman of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Council of Ministers, Zoran Tegeltija, said on Saturday it was not clear to him why anyone in Dubrovnik and Croatia would be against the construction of an airport at Trebinje, noting that everyone would benefit from the project. Tegeltija confirmed to the local media that he had received a letter from Dubrovnik Mayor Mate Franković requesting that all preparations for the construction of the Trebinje airport be suspended until the possible impact of the project on the environment, including the River Ombla, was assessed. In his letter, Franković reminded…

ZAGREB, 2 April 2022 - Four Montenegrins, who were arrested on Thursday while they were trying to smuggle Afghan migrants across Croatia, were on Saturday placed in custody after an investigating judge in Karlovac ordered their detention as they were a flight risk. The four Montenegrin men, aged between 24 and 32, were charged with the illegal transport of migrants and with forgery of documents. The suspects were nabbed by the Croatian police in the hamlet of Kukača in the morning of 31 March, while they were transporting irregular Afghan migrants on their way to west Europe. The migrants were placed in the…

ZAGREB, 2 April 2022 - Dubrovnik Mayor Mato Franković has sent a request to Bosnia and Herzegovina's Council of Ministers to halt the construction of the airport in the town of Trebinje, southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, until the impact of the project on the source of the River Ombla is assessed. The road distance between Dubrovnik and Trebinje is roughly 30 kilometres. The mayor sent the request to the chairman of the Bosnia and Herzegovina's ministerial council, Zoran Tegeltija, on Friday following the adoption of a memorandum by Bosnia's Council of Ministers and the government of Serbia on the future…

ZAGREB, 2 April 2022 - The total number of workers in the industrial sector in February 2022 rose 0.3% from the previous month and fell 0.9% compared to February 2021, show data from the national statistical office (DZS). According to the National Classification of Economic Activities (NKD), month-on-month, the number of employees in mining and quarrying dropped by 0.2%, and it went down 0.3% in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply, while it increased 0.3% in manufacturing. Year-on-year, the number of workers in mining and quarrying fell 0.5%, and by 1.1% in manufacturing, while it rose 1.8% in electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply. According to the…