Archive for February 26th, 2008
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Zagreb, February 26 (CP) – The PBZ Zagreb Indoors tournament on Tuesday saw five Croats advance to the second round.
Five of the six Croats competing in the first round of the Zagreb Indoors tournament have managed to beat their adversaries. This was true of Roko Karanusic who beat Slovene Blaz Kavcic 6-7, 6-4, 6-4, Lovro […]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Zagreb, February 26 (CP) – Due to a death toll of 600 on Croatian roads in 2007, a new proposal has been put forth in a bid to put a stop to such negative figures, changes to the legislation should be introduced.
One of the provisions is that any motorist with more than 1.5 blood alcohol […]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Zagreb, February 26 (CP) – A Croatian company engaged in developing, designing, producing and selling seats for the automobile and aviation industry is planning to open a plant for producing car seats.
The Paulana company is planning to open the new plant at the end of 2009 and employ some 500 workers.
The company has already closed […]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Zareb, February 26 (CP) — Zagreb is to play host tonight to one of the world’s greatest chanson singers Juliette Greco is playing Zagreb tonight.
The French diva will be appearing at 8:45 tonight at Zagreb’s Vatroslav Lisinski concert hall.
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Zagreb, February 26 (CP) — The European Parliament’s Foreign Policy committee will debate Croatia’s progress report following it’s second reading today.
Some 106 ammendments have been entered to the draft report which was prepared by parliamentary rapporteur for Croatia Hannes Swoboda.
The committee will vote on the report tomorrow after which it will be forwarded, as a […]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Zagreb, February 26 (CP) — Some 2 weeks before the trial of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac at the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hague, prosecutors have submitted a revised indictment against the three, which includes amendments.
Prosecutors claim that the amendments do not contain any new facts or new legal […]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Zagreb, February 26 (CP) — Croatia together with Italy, Romania, Serbia and the European Commission has reached an agreement over the start of the setting up of the Pan European Oil Pipeline (PEOP) project.
Some 1350km of pipeline will have to be constructed for transporting oil from the Black Sea to Trieste and Genoa, Italy, securing […]
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Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Zagreb, February 26 (CP) – The Croatian national carrier Croatia Airlines (CA) is to scrap issuing airline tickets for its flights as of June1 in a bid to speed up the process of boarding.
The move is part of the International Air Transport Association (IAIT) demand for all of its members to introduce e-ticketing by the […]
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