ZAGREB, March 7, 2018 - Croatia and Greece recorded the lowest GDP growths in the European Union during the fourth quarter of 2017, compared with the previous quarter, Eurostat said on Wednesday.

ZAGREB, March 6, 2018 - The European Investment Bank (EIB) on Tuesday signed loan agreements with the Croatian Bank for Regional Development (HBOR), Croatia's leading tourism company Valamar Riviera and the Regional Development and EU Funds Ministry.

ZAGREB, March 6, 2018 - The Austrian government plans to ask the European Commission to prolong until 2020 the transitional period during which Croatian citizens do not have a fully open access to the Austrian labour market, Austrian media reported on Monday.

ZAGREB, March 5, 2018 - Croatian MEP Biljana Borzan (SDP) on Monday said that she had secured additional 800,000 euro from the EU budget to test the different quality of same brand products on EU markets, which should serve as the basis to amend the law on labelling products and unfair trade practices in the EU.

ZAGREB, March 5, 2018 - European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources Guenther Oettinger will stop in Zagreb on Thursday, as part of his tour of 27 member-states to be informed of their positions on the future EU multi-annual financial framework for the period after 2020, the Commission reported on Monday.

ZAGREB, February 26, 2018 - European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told Western Balkan countries on Sunday to see 2025 as the date when any of them could join the European Union, provided they worked to meet the criteria for membership, according to Reuters.

ZAGREB, February 24, 2018 - Leaders of the 27 member-states of the European Union on Friday broadly agreed on the European Parliament's proposal on the reduction of the number of MEPs in the next composition of the parliament following the exit of Great Britain, however, they are against automaticity in the process of the election of the European Commission President in the lead candidate process (the so-called Spitzenkandidate process).

ZAGREB, February 23, 2018 - Croatia is supportive of the "Spitzenkandidat" concept, that is the lead candidate process, for the election of the European Commission President, and is generally supportive of increasing contributions to the European Union budget, however, Zagreb opposes the automatism for possibly making cohesion funding dependable on the rule of law, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said in Brussels on Friday where he was attending an informal meeting of 27 member-states' leaders.

ZAGREB, February 20, 2018 - As many as 94% of respondents in Croatia believe corruption is widespread in the country, 58% think it has increased in the past three years, but 80% claim they did not experience or witness a case of corruption over the past year, according to Eurobarometer findings presented on Tuesday.

ZAGREB, February 19, 2018 - Croatia and the European Space Agency (ESA) signed an agreement concerning space cooperation for peaceful purposes in Zagreb on Monday in the presence of representatives of Croatian scientific and economic institutions. The agreement was signed by the Minister of Science and Education, Blaženka Divjak, and the head of the ESA External Relations Department, Frederic Nordlund.