Archive for February, 2008
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Zagreb, February 19 (CP) — The search for a missing Labin fisherman, which was discontinued last night due to poor visibility, has continued on Tuesday morning without success.
Fisherman Adam Vlacic went missing as he was fishing between the islands of Cres and the Istrian peninsula on Monday.
Helicopters, port authority vessels and Rabac port […]
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Zagreb, January 19 (CP) – The State Statistics Bureau has released data on the increase of prices and services for personal use which show that in January of 2008 compared to the previous month prices had increased 0.7 percent and 6.2 percent compared to January 2007.
Calculations have shown that Croatia is experiencing the highest inflation […]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – Croatian popular music diva Tereza Kesovija, 69, has had a tumour from one of her kidneys removed at a clinic in Slovenia, but is set to continue concert activity in Ljubljana, Slovenia on March 8.
One of Croatia’s music legends Tereza Kesovija, who was diagnosed with a kidney tumour during a […]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – The Croatian Ingra construction company has announced the stock exchange it was planning to purchase shares in the GP Mavrovo construction company.
Ingra should complete the transaction in 10 days time via the Macedonian stock exchange.
Mavrovo has some 3,198 employees and an annual turnover of $74.4 million. The Macedonian construction market […]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – Vinko Rodic, who was shot several times at a bar in Zagreb’s Dubrava residential quarter, has died from his wounds.
The mafia-style killing happened in a bar owned by Rodic’s brother Sebastian, as a group of people was celebrating Kosovo independence declaration on Sunday evening.
Rodic was immediately rushed to a near-by […]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – Croatian president Stjepan Mesic has said that Croatia would not recognize Kosovo’s independence, despite such claims by the media quoting unofficial government sources.
Mesic said that he did not expect the topic to make it onto the government’s session agenda on Thursday, but confirmed that he had received a message from […]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – Croatian president Stjepan Mesic has received the Serbian Ambassador to Croatia, Radivoj Cvjeticanin on Monday.
Cvjeticanin conveyed to Mesic a message by Serbian president Boris Tadic regarding Kosovo’s declaration of independence. The message contains the well-known views of Serbia regarding Kosovo independence.
Croatia is expected to publish the date it plans to […]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – The Croatian capital Zagreb has seen yet another mafia-style killing on Sunday night, as an unknown attacker gunned down one of the three brothers charged with the killing of an underworld boss in 1998.
Vinko Rodic, one of the acquitted men in the proceedings in the murder of criminal gang boss […]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – The European Union council, as announced earlier, is to sent out at warning to Croatia from it’s Monday’s session to refrain from implementing the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) against EU member-countries until a joint agreement is reached.
It is to call on Croatia to hold negotiations with Italy, Slovenia […]
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Monday, February 18th, 2008
Zagreb, February 18 (CP) – Croatia’s Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic and the government are claiming they would follow the stance of the EU regarding Kosovo’s recognition stating that there is no need for Croatia to make hasty moves regarding the issue.
The government is closely following events on Kosovo both on Sunday and the following day […]
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