Zagreb, July 1 (CP) – The Serbian Jat Airlines is to link Belgrade and the Croatian coastal town of Pula between July 3 and August 31 twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays.
This is the first times Pula and Belgrade will be linked in this way since 1991.
Zagreb, July 1 (CP) — Most of Tuesday’s proceedings at the Gotovina, Cermak and Markac trial at the ICTY in The Hague was held behind closed doors as a protected witness took the stand.
The Prosecution has interrogated the witness 86 for six hours and the defence has asked for even more time for cross-examination, as they believe this to be a key witness.
ZAGREB, June 30 (CP) - Croatia’s Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) has put out its web site www.soa.hr and is looking to recruit agents.
The explanation for the website being set up is to enable better understanding of the work of the agency by the general public and facilitate contacts with them.
It has become a common thing for intelligence agencies to put up their web sites, this being done a long time ago by the CIA or Mi-6.
Zagreb, June 28 (CP) – For the seventh year running Zagreb is to host the Gay Pride march that is to take place through the centre of the capital in the early afternoon of Saturday under the motto You Have the Courage.
The goal of this year’s event is heightening the visibility of gay people in society and fight against homophobia, which is till very present in Croatian society.
Many public figures, as well as political parties and individuals like president Stjepan Mesic have given their support to the event, but such courtesy was not ever extended by the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party.
Some gay activists have said this was not surprising, as the ruling party has portrayed itself through its actions as a homophobic and non-European party.
Although large numbers of police will be guarding the march and its participants, as they did last year, there are fears of violence against those taking part, as last year there have been several incidents of participants being bashed after the march and the police failing to appear at the site on time to protect them.
Also, last year, an individual prepared petrol bombs to throw at those marching, but was stopped on time.
Zagreb, June 27 (CP) – The UEFA disciplinary commission has fined the Croatian Football Association (HNS) €60,000 for Croatia football supporters’ inappropriate conduct during the Croatia-Turkey game of the EURO2008.
The explanation gives is that some two dozen fires were burning during the game in the section of the stadium occupied by Croatian supporters.
The HNS has announced it would appeal the fine.
Zagreb, June 27 (CP) – A construction workers was killed when some metal tubing fell onto his head as it was being unloaded from a truck.
The incident happened in Zagreb’s Maksimir area and it resulted in traffic being halted for several hours in the street where it occurred.
Zagreb, June 26 (CP) – A third of the Croats thinks the European Union is a good thing, while a quarter believe that it is bad for Croatia, the results of Eurobarometre show.
As many as 39 percent of those surveyed believe the EU was neither good nor bad.
Zagreb, June 25 (CP) — The French European Affairs Secretary Jean-Pierre Jouyet has said speaking at a conference on Balkans’ progress that Croatia had made a lot of progress in its accession negotiations and the aim of the French EU presidency will be the opening and closing of nearly all of the negotiation chapters.
Jouyet said this during a conference on the Balkans’ situation. His words represent the strongest confirmation so far that the negative outcome of the Lisbon Treaty referendum in Ireland would not impact Croatia’s accession.
Zagreb, June 24 (CP) – The Croatian capital’s old town is to be shut to all traffic as of July 1, the only vehicles allowed in the area will be those of emergency services, the residents, those of parliament, government, constitutional court and the city assembly.
The vehicles allowed in the area will be issued special permits.
The people working in the old town will be parking their car at the nearby large garage with a shuttle bus connecting the two points.
Zagreb, June 24 (CP) – The INA oil company has begun with its oil prospecting work in the Bloka Moghan-2 Iranian oil field.
An agreement on this was signed earlier with the Iranian National Oil Company (NIOC) after a tender had been put out in February 2007.
The contract covers oil prospecting and drilling for the next five years and in case of actually coming across diposits of hydrocarbon the contract is to be extended to 25 years.
The project is valued at $142 million.
