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ZAGREB, 29 Jan 2022 - Pope Francis on Saturday decided on the retirement of Cardinal Vinko Puljić, the Archbishop of Sarajevo, who would be succeeded by the current coadjutor archbishop, Tomo Vukšić, the Vatican reported. In September 2020, Cardinal Puljić offered his resignation when he turned 75. He has been at the helm of the Archdiocese of Sarajevo since 6 January 1991, and became a cardinal in 1994. He is the first Catholic dignitary in Bosnia and Herzegovina to be declared a cardinal. Vukšić, born in the village of Studenci in Herzegovina in 1954, became the coadjutor archbishop in Sarajevo two years…

ZAGREB, 29 Jan 2022 - Opposition Bridge party leader Božo Petrov said on Saturday the government would do anything to avoid a referendum on the constitutionality of COVID certificates, noting that it was not clear to him why the government was afraid of "its people" and its opinion. "400,000 people gave their signatures in impossible conditions and a clear message was sent to the government and the Constitutional Court that they should not play with the people's will and that they should let the referendum happen. If they intend to stall, it will backfire on them, because this time people…

ZAGREB, 29 Jan 2022 - Homeland Movement (DP) leader Ivan Penava said in Osijek on Saturday that this year's sowing in Croatia would be the most expensive ever and that it would result in the collapse of the national farm sector and citizens' living standards. "The government is ignoring the problem and is late in responding," Penava told a news conference. A member of the DP Agriculture Committee, Darko Dimić, said that the coming pre-sowing fertilisation would be a number of times more expensive than last year. Talks with farmers have shown that they will reduce the use of artificial fertilisers…

January 30, 2022 - The new attraction has stirred up controversy due to an unfortunate choice of location A panoramic wheel was set up in Rijeka earlier this week, at a location near the waterfront in the city centre. The wheel is 22 metres tall and has 18 cabins that fit 4-5 people each. It’s the same ferris wheel that was previously installed in Varaždin by the company Fest d.o.o. as part of the Advent programme last year in December. The attraction has now moved to Rijeka for the carnival season, and will remain there until the end of February. …

January 29, 2022 - The Paleo or Stone Age diet is amongst the most popular lifestyle trends in the 21st century, claiming a variety of health benefits including weight loss and improved mental health. But what about our ancestors after the stone age? What were their lifestyles like over the next 3,000 years? A Croatian ancestral burial site may hold some answers. A recent study on remains excavated from the Vučedol archeological site located in eastern Croatia was able to determine the long-term dietary choices, and the type of food that inhabitants consumed during the Bronze Ages. Results point to…

January 29, 2022 – Meet Monika Šrajbek, the head of tourism at the Vu Life Center, a one-stop shop for medical tourism in Vukovar. With creativity flowing, amazing products that need to be heard of, and most importantly energy to do something significant for tourism in Vukovar, this small business strives to keep up with the times and always offer something new. Vu Life Center is one of the rare attempts of medical tourism in the city, offering aesthetic procedures using modern technology. What once was a private ob-gyn practice became a practice for aesthetic medicine and eventually grew into…

January 29, 2022 - A travelogue filmed in 1955 takes us on a trip down the Croatian coast, featuring some of the most popular destinations on the Adriatic We love coming across old footage of the Adriatic coast, but it’s a rare treat to see a video filmed in the 1950s - and a travelogue at that! Titled ‘Adriatic Splendor’, the 1955 video features some of the most popular tourist destinations in ex-Yugoslavia, with the bulk of the footage filmed on the Croatian Adriatic. As introduced on the PeriscopeFilm channel: ‘This black and white 1955 travelogue documents seaside towns along…

January 29, 2022 - A shock defeat to Slovakia on Saturday left Croatia without the UEFA Futsal Euro quarterfinal in the Netherlands.  The Croatia futsal team was left without a place in the UEFA Euro quarterfinal after they lost to Slovakia 3-5 (1-2) in a key match in Groningen. Goals for Croatia were scored by Kristijan Postružin (15), Matej Horvat (36) and Franco Jelovčić (38), and for Slovakia by Martin Smerička (8, 35), Petr Kozar (20) and Tomaš Drahovsky (21, 28 penalty). Croatia played against Slovakia without the suspended Matošević and the injured Suton. The last seconds of the first half…

January 29, 2022 - Preparations are underway for the WRC Croatia Rally 2022, in a special year in which the World Rally Championship celebrates its 50th anniversary. The big event will take place from April 21 to 24 and will feature spectators on 20 stages across five Croatian counties. Following the excellent organization of the WRC Croatia Rally in its first edition in 2021, the FIA did not think twice about including Croatia again in the next two World Rally Championship calendars. Thus, this year, the country is once again preparing to host one of the most important sports and…

ZAGREB, 29 Jan 2022 - In the last 24 hours, PCR tests have detected 9,904 new cases of the infection with coronavirus plus 5,512 cases detected by rapid antigene tests, Croatia's COVID-19 crisis management team reported on Saturday. The COVID-related death toll has increased by 41 to 13,731. There are currently 66,152 active cases of infection with SARS-CoV-2 in the country. Of them, 1,936 are hospitalized patients, including 183 placed on ventilators. Since the first registered case of the infection with the novel virus in late February 2020, so far, 929,502 cases of the infection have been detected, and of them, 849,619…