ZAGREB, June 14, 2018 - Croatia is committed to solidarity inside NATO and to sharing the burden inside the alliance, which is why it will raise its investment in the defence sector, President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović said in Brussels on Thursday after her talks with Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

ZAGREB, June 14, 2018 - The government on Wednesday rejected President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović's initiative to participate in Croatia's chairmanship of the European Union, telling Hina the prime minister represented Croatia in the European Council, but welcomed the possibility of the president contributing to the chairmanship programme.

ZAGREB, June 13, 2018 - President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović said on Wednesday she wanted to contribute to Croatia's upcoming chairing of the European Union instead of leaving the whole job to the government.

ZAGREB, June 12, 2018 - Attending the Entrepreneurs Day event in Zagreb on Tuesday, Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said that the national economy was growing on sound foundations and that the government's economic policy was based on the reduction of tax and non-tax levies, while President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović said that Croatia faced great opportunities but that "lack of a systematic approach and political immaturity" posed an obstacle to seizing those opportunities.

ZAGREB, June 12, 2018 - Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy Minister Nada Murganić said on Monday that the population policy measures that President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović presented earlier in the day were in line with the government's programme and that the government Council for Demographic Revival would examine the measures. "We carefully watched the president's presentation... We will examine the material when we receive it at the Council for Demographic Revival," Murganić said.

ZAGREB, June 11, 2018 - President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on Monday presented her measures for the population policy, saying this was a vital issue, namely an issue of Croatia's survival as a country and a nation. Pointing out an increased share of the elderly population, an increasingly low number of newborns, the departure of the young and working-age population, the president said all of this would directly affect the national security, economic growth, social stability and overall future of the Croatian nation and state.

ZAGREB, June 10, 2018 - Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović will pay a two-day visit to Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday for talks with European Council President Donald Tusk, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg.

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ZAGREB, June 3, 2018 - President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović repeated on Sunday that she did not want to comment on the content of the question of a recently completed campaign for a referendum to change the election law, but that she believed the will of the people should be respected, adding that her meeting with Željka Markić, leader of the conservative “In the Name of the Family” civic group, unofficially one of the organisers of one of the two recent referendum campaigns, was not a secret meeting.