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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Zagreb, February 7 (CP) — President Stjepan Mesic has said he believed the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) in the Adriatic issue was blown out of proportion, but is an open issue which needs to be solved.
He said that the real problem was the fact that Slovenia was linking the issue of the maritime […]
Zagreb, February 7 (CP) — The Zagreb Stock Exchange share index Crobex has dropped by 3.13 percent with all the traded shares losing value. T-HT shares have for the first time since being floated on the market dropped below the 300 kuna level ending the day at 298.02 kuna. Crobex ended the day at 4.164,39 […]
Zagreb, February 7 (CP) — Two residents of Dubrovnik were arrested and faced the magistrate on Thursday following a car bomb explosion that rocked the ancient port on February 5.
They are being charged with conducting a criminal act, endangering lives and property.
According to unofficial claims the two are Tomislav Krmek and Damir Zovko, former special […]
agreb, February 7 (CP) — Despite claiming it will not agree to the severance of the €5 million deal with Univerzijada Beograd, the Varazdin-based Varteks company had done so, thus no longer being the exclusive supplier of official clothing and footwear for the upcoming event.
The deal has been broken off despite the fact that it […]
Zagreb, February 7 (CP) — The EP member and Croatia rapporteur Hannes Swoboda has said speaking in Zagreb that not a single country that had gone through a war had not done so much for the refugees and for cooperation with the ICTY as Croatia did.
He added that there still remained certain issues that needed […]
Zagreb, February 7 (CP) — The Rijeka county court has sentenced Gospic tycoon Josip Mraovic to three years in prison for the attempted rape of American basketball player Illisha Jarrett.
The incident happened in 2005 when tycoon Mraovic came to Jarrett’s hotel room and forced a finger up her anus in an attempt to rape her.
Mraovic […]
