Archive for February 8th, 2008
Friday, February 8th, 2008
Zagreb, February 8 (CP) – Although consumers’ organisations across the country are not in possession of data regarding how many consumers stayed off shopping the first full day of the shopping boycott, the are pleased with the response of the public and are calling on them to keep up the boycott for another six days […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Zagreb, February 8 (CT) – Another day of unease at the Zagreb Stock Exchange (ZSE) with total turnover amounting to 166.67 million kuna and 77 percent of the shares traded ending the day with a drop in their value.
The most traded shares were that to Croatian Telecom (T-HT) with trade totalling 18.9 million kuna, dropping […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Zagreb, February 8 (CP) – The fire that has been raging on the Turkish ship off the Croatian coast has been contained and Dutch expert firefighting unit is on board in a bid to put out the fire within the vessel.
Smoke is still billowing from the ship wreckage.
Now negotiations are under way with shipyards to […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Zagreb, February 8 (CP) – World Bank’s chief economist for Croatia, Sanja Madjarevic Sujster has said speaking in Zagreb that the organisation expects Croatia’s economy to grow at a 4.5 percent rate in 2008, while the inflation should hover around 6 percent.
Madjarevic said that although the overall economic outlook for the EU and Croatia for […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Zagreb, February 8 (CP) – Former Croatian arms dealer Zvonko Zubak who sued Croatia for $200 million plus interest claiming he was never paid for the S-300 rocket system he had supplied Croatia with back in 1995.
Had Zubak not lost the court case, this would have been the priciest ruling in the history of the […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Zagreb, February 8 (CP) – According to assistant Sea and Transport Minister captain Marko Bibic, who spoke to Nova TV Croatian commercial television, Croatia is to seek €30 million in damages following the fire incident on the Turkish ship off the Croatian coast near the islands of Brijuni.
The Turkish ship which caught fire some 13 […]
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Zagreb, February 8 (CP) – In future, Croatian citizens wanting to visit Canada will no longer have to fill out an additional form demanding them to answer questions about the Homeland war and their involvement in it.
This has been a sticking point in relations between Croatia and Canada for the past 12 years since the […]
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