ZAGREB, June 3, 2018 - Regional Development and EU Funds Minister Gabrijela Žalac said on Saturday that President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović's recent criticism of the government was not acceptable.

ZAGREB, June 2, 2018 - Commenting on referendum campaigns launched by civic groups, President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović said on Saturday that she did not interfere in referendums but that she strongly believed that the will of the people had to be respected.

ZAGREB, June 2, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Friday that President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović obviously liked what the MOST party was doing and that her statement praising that party was possibly aimed at expanding her voter base. "She obviously fancies what MOST has been doing. My experience with MOST was bad, but maybe she has been trying to broaden her voter base," Plenković said while answering questions from the press in Kutina, where he attended a ceremony marking the 50th anniversary of the local artificial fertiliser factory Petrokemija.

ZAGREB, June 1, 2018 - Commenting on the latest criticism of the government by President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović regarding depopulation trends and reforms, Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković on Friday called for defusing tensions.

ZAGREB, June 1, 2018 - President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović on Friday criticised the political elite, saying that it has alienated itself from the people and that many citizens feel injustice because the system is not treating everyone the same. She called for joint effort to resolve the problems in Croatian society, underscoring that the demographic issue was crucial.

ZAGREB, May 31, 2018 - President Kolinda-Grabar Kitarović on Wednesday arrived in the Italian region of Molise where she met with the local Croat community which is celebrating the 500th anniversary of its arrival in that Italian province.

ZAGREB, May 30, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković announced on Wednesday that he would talk with President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović after she returned from Italy, rejecting claims by the opposition that their bickering was a "well-coordinated stage play" to turn attention away from more important matters like Agrokor.

ZAGREB, May 30, 2018 - Parliament Speaker Gordan Jandroković said on Wednesday he had a hard time understanding the latest move by President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović whose office sent an invitation for a joint meeting with the government to discuss demography, but without enclosing the relevant material and while a session of the National Security Council (attended by both the president and the prime minister) was taking place.

ZAGREB, May 30, 2018 - Prime Minister Andrej Plenković said on Tuesday that there would be no joint meeting of his government with President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović to discuss measures to fight negative demographic trends, which she proposed on Monday. "The president has sent a letter with her proposal but it did not contain any specific measures about which she has spoken publicly on several occasions," Plenković told reporters after attending a presentation of the campaign "Find a Job in Croatia" in downtown Zagreb.

ZAGREB, May 29, 2018 - Bilateral relations, further promotion of cooperation and new transport connections dominated the talks held on Tuesday by the Croatian and Italian presidents, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović and Sergio Mattarella respectively, in Rome.