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Zagreb, February 16 (CP) – The Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic has said speaking about Croatia’s accession negotiations with the EU and NATO that both memberships were close to becoming reality.
Jandrokovic admitted that the implementation of the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) in the Adriatic had resulted in the EU membership negotiations slowing down […]

Zagreb, February 16 (CP) – A 57-year-old man had spent five days with a corpse, after he stabbed his friend during a fight on January 9, the stabbing resulting of the friend dying of his wounds.
The murder took place in the eastern Croatian town of Donji Andrijevci and the killer decided to move the body […]

Zagreb, February 15 (CP) – The drop in the value of the Crobex share index has continued at the Zagreb Stock Exchange with the current slip standing at 1.33 percent, while the T-HT shares ended trade at the lowest value since being floated on the market, at 290.65 kuna.
Crobex ended Friday at 4.010,01 points. Regular […]

Zagreb, February 15 (CP) – Finnish ski champion Tanja Poutiainen has won the women’s slalom race held at Croatia’s Mt. Sljeme near the capital of Zagreb, while Austria’s Marilies Schield came in second and Slovakia’s Veronika Zuzulova third.
Croatian skiers Ana Jelusic and Sofija Novoselic had dropped out of the race in the first run and […]

Zagreb, February 15 (CP) – The Varazdin mayor Ivan Cehok has met with the San Marino Cassa di Risparmio CEO Gilbert Ghiotto, the two announcing the opening of the San Marino consulate in Varazdin.
The consulate is to assist the strengthening of economic relations.
The Cassa di Risparmio bank has begun business cooperation with Banka Kovanica bank […]

Zagreb, February 15 (CP) – The association of consumer protection organisations in Croatia have revealed the results of a weeklong boycott on shopping on Friday.
Although the representatives of two key agencies said they were pleased with the outcome, it has actually been revealed that the general public did not take much notice of the ban […]

Zagreb, February 15 (CP) – At its Brussels meeting on Monday, the EU council is to call on Croatia once again not to implement a single aspect of the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) against EU members until a satisfactory solution is found, sources from the Slovene presidency have stated.
The Council is to repeat […]

Zagreb, February 15 (CP) – A 47-year-old man in the Croatian capital Zagreb fell to his death from a second floor landing of an apartment building.
He fell from more than nine meters and landed on a concrete patch, dying instantly.
The police are investigating the circumstances of the death, but not treating it as suspicious.

Zagreb, February 15 (CP) — Vedran Duvnjak, who has until now been the assistant Finance Minister has become the new president of the Croatian Privatisation Fund (HFP). The decision on this was made at the closed-door portion of the government session on Thursday, while the acting HFP president Grga Ivezic has been relieved of his […]

Zagreb, February 15 (CP) — The government has announced the sale of 12 percent of shares of the Petrochemical plant to its workers and the redefining of the agreement on mutual relations of the INA shares holders, after the state-owned shares in INA dropped below 50 percent.
A special commission has been established in order to […]