ZAGREB, May 4, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Thursday there would be no government reshuffle, adding that he had no idea why this possibility was being raised.

ZAGREB, May 3, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Thursday that the European Commission's forecast of Croatia's economic growth at a rate of 2.8% matched the projections by the government and the Finance Ministry, adding that the EC's forecast was motivating.

ZAGREB, May 3, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Wednesday that Croatia was a responsible state which wished to open new pages of cooperation with all neighbouring countries, and rejected the "negative" and "scandalous" rhetoric coming from Serbia.

ZAGREB, May 1, 2018 - Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in Okučani on Tuesday, at a ceremony marking the 23rd anniversary of Operation Flash, that Croatia and Serbia "at this moment are two worlds," declining to say whether he and President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović would discuss new diplomatic measures against Serbia as a response to Serbia's decision to declare Croatian Defence Minister Damir Krstičević persona non grata.

ZAGREB, April 30, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković wished Croatian citizens a happy International Workers' Day, saying the government had proved that it was systematically working on the creation of an economic environment for new jobs, better salaries and higher living standards as well as, in cooperation with the social partners, working on political stability, legal certainty, growth and solidarity.

ZAGREB, April 29, 2018 - After six years of decline and stagnation, Croatia increased the defence budget for two years in a row as it believes that investing in defence represents investing in security, prosperity and economic development, and that it makes the country a more reliable partner and ally in the European Union, NATO and the UN, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said.

ZAGREB, April 26, 218 - After representatives of some of Croatian minority communities recently boycotted the central state commemoration for the victims of the World War II Jasenovac concentration camp on April 22, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković on Thursday called on all social stakeholders in the country, notably politicians, to attend central state commemorations and make effort so "that in the future we could have a single commemoration at Jasenovac."

ZAGREB, April 24, 2018 - Despite the disputes, the current state of relations with Slovenia is not dramatic, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Tuesday when asked to comment on relations with the neighbouring country in light of the legal proceedings Ljubljana has launched regarding the border arbitration and the issue of old foreign currency savings accounts held by Croatian citizens in the now defunct Ljubljanska Banka.

The documentation suggests that the Chinese can provide up to 40 percent of subcontractors, equal to just over 100 million euro.

ZAGREB, April 22, 2018 - Croatia wants cooperation with Serbia and it has reached out, but messages such as those by Serbian Defence Minister Aleksandar Vulin are harming bilateral relations, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Sunday.