Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Zagreb, January 30 (CT) — The PM Ivo Sanader announced after a meeting of the Price Increase Monitoring Committee that the government could vouch that there would be no changes in the price of gas for households until the summer, while the same has still not been confirmed for commercial clients.
The Committee made up of […]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Zagreb, January 30 (CP) — The committee for monitoring price increases in Croatia is meeting again today in a broader session.
Government cabinet members, representatives from unions, employers and consumers associations will be meeting along with the chief state inspector and city representatives, which have prepared an analysis of price increases for utilities.
Prime Minister Ivo Sanader […]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Zagreb, January 30 (CP) — The Bosnia-Herzegovina Presidency president Zeljko Komsic has announced his country would not give up its claim to the former children’s hospital in Cavtat near Dubrovnik and would contact, regarding the issue, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader.
The landplot and the children’s hospital building are situated in a particulary nice spot by the […]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Zagreb, January 30 (CP) — Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlašić took first place at the indoor athletics meet being held in Goteborg Sweden.
By clearing 201 centimetres Vlašić set a new event recond winning for the second year in a row.
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Zagreb, January 30 (CP) — A rally of warning is being staged in front of the Zagreb city authorities building by some 200 trade unions’ representatives in protest against the latest rise in utility prices in the capital.
The unions’ representatives are claiming that the legal procedure has not been followed in the process of price […]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Zagreb, January 30 (CP) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration has refuted claims by Slovene Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel who said that over the past few months Croatia had practically severed diplomatic relations with Slovenia and that there has been no contact between the two countries’ foreign ministries for six months.
This […]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Zagreb, January 30 (CP) – The trial of former Constitutional Court judge Vice Vukojevic suspected of raping a young Bosnian Moslem woman at the Vojno prison camp near Mostar in 1993 is to begin in spring.
The raped woman, now living in the United States is prepared to travel to Croatia in order to testify in […]
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Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Zagreb, January 30 (CP) — The PM Ivo Sanader has speaking to reporters confirmed that Gen. Josip Lucic would remain at the helm of the Croatian Army as Chief-of-Staff.
Although there had been speculations of another candidate taking the post, Lucic was given a second five-year mandate.
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Zagreb, January 29 (CP) — The EP rapporteur on Croatia Hannes Swoboda has presented to the members of the EP foreign policy committee in Brussels a fresh report on Croatia’s progress. He stated that key reforms has still not been implemented.
A discussion on the Protected Ecology and Fishery Zone in the Adriatic followed. Swoboda expressed […]
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
A Dutch cyclist is hit by a van in Vodnjan, Istria and later dies in Pula hospital
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