Zagreb, February 11 (CP) – The Jutarnji List daily Editor-in-Chief Tomislav Wruss and editor of the EPH public sector editions Davor Butkovic have offered their resignations following the scandal of the publishing of a fake interview with PM Ivo Sanader in the paper’s Saturday edition.
Butkovic has admitted responsibility for not acting in a professional manner […]
Zagreb, February 11 (CP) – The PM Ivo Sanader has met with central bank representatives and those of leading banks in the country in a bid to discuss ways of slowing down inflation.
Sanader, deputy PM Damir Polancec and Finance Minister Ivan Suker have announced that special attention would be paid to lowering the deficit rate, […]
Zagreb, February 11 (CP) – According to the Glas Dalmacije Internet portal, the Swedish giant IKEA may be planning to open a store in Split, after the town-planning for Split has been changed, allowing construction at the location of Stinice.
IKEA has certain standards that all the locations of its stores need to match and among […]
Zagreb, February 11 (CP) — It is still not clear whether the Turkish cargo ship which caught fire off the Northern Croatian coast last week will be towed to Trieste.
Netherlands experts investigating the status of the ship for the past three days claim it will be ready for towing within 2 to 3 days. The […]
Zagreb, February 11 (CP) — Cabinet members Agriculture Minister Bozidar Pankretic and deputy PM Damir Polancec will be meeting with representatives of the Kutina Petrochemical plant following the price of fertilizer increasing by as much as 44 percent.
Altough the price increase was expected, such a steep price hike has shocked farmers.
Minister Pankretic is planning to […]
Zagreb, February 10 (CP) – Top Croatian athlete high jumper Blanka Vlasic has one yet another event on Sunday clearing 202 centimetres in Karlsruhe.
Vlasic’s closest opponent managed 195 centimetres with Blanka attempting, but not managing 198 centimetres and then deciding to lift the bar to 202 and clearing it second time around.
Vlasic did attempt 204 […]
Zagreb, February 10 (CP) – Attending the Security Policy meeting in Munich, Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic said he was pleased with what had been accomplished at the meeting, particularly the fact he had met with his Slovene counterpart Dimitrij Rupel.
Jandrokovic also said that he had spoken to several officials of NATO during the meeting and […]
Zagreb, February 10 (CP) – A dog saved his owner’s life by alerting her to a fire raging in her home in Sesvete, near Croatia’s capital Zagreb, by barking.
The 50-year-old owner was sleeping in her home when she was woken up by the dog barking, The dog would not let up before the woman was […]
Zagreb, February 10 (CP) – A young man’s prank ended up as a published interview in the Jutarnji List daily on Saturday stirring up the cabinet office and resulting in the paper’s apology to readers and the PM.
The unusual highly embarrassing mishap took place as the Jutarnji List daily editor Davor Butkovic relied on an […]
Zagreb, February 10 (CP) – Croatian skier Ivica Kostelic captured the third place in the German Garmisch Partenkirchen slalom.
Kostelic was fourth in the first run, improving his standing by one place in the second run and ending up third.
This was the first time this season that Kostelic made it onto the slalom podium.
The winner was […]
