Archive for February 26th, 2008

First Round of PBZ Zagreb Indoors Tournament Sees all but One Croats Advance

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 […]

Croatia’s Over-the-Limit Drivers May Be Fined up to 50,000 Kuna

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 […]

Peugeot, WV, Renault To Get Seats Made in Croatia

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 […]

French Music Diva Juliette Greco Playing Zagreb Tonight

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.

EP Foreign Policy Committee Debating Croatia’s EU Accession Progress Report

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 […]

Revised Indictment Submitted in the Gotovina, Markac and Cermak ICTY Trial

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 […]

Croatia To Become Part of the Pan European Oil Pipeline Project

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 […]

Croatia Airlines Scrapping Airline Tickets as of June 1

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 […]