Archive for March 11th, 2008
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Zagreb, March 11 (CP) — The president of the commission in charge of monitoring the implementation of the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Zone (ZERP) Tonci Tadic has described the conduct of the Croatian government and the ruling majority regarding the ZERP issue as scandalous and shameful.
Tadic claims that ZERP is not part of the negotiations […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Zagreb, March 11 (CP) — The European Brand Institute from Vienna has awarded the most valuable brand award in Croatia to Croatian Radio Television (HRT).
The value of the HRT brand has been put at €126 million.
According to the survey on the value of brands Eurobrand 2007, the total value of the 10 leading Croatia brands […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Zagreb, March 11 (CP) The fishermen guild from the Zadar county has organised a peaceful protest in the Zadar port due to the government lacking decisiveness in the issue of the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Zone (ZERP).
It was stated that the fishermen were not against EU membership, but said Croatia cannot enter the EU without […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Zagreb, March 11 (CP) – Attorney Ante Nobilo, a former ICTY lawyer for Tihomir Blaskic claims that no one in their right mind would deny that war crimes were committed during the war in Croatia and someone needs to be made responsible for them.
Nobilo said this commenting the course of the proceedings at the ICTY […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Zagreb, March 11 (CP) — At the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague today, trial procedures begin in the case against Croatian generals Gotovina, Markac and Cermak.
The prosecution has announced that it intends to call 134 witnesses, while an unusual 209 working hours has been approved for their questioning.
The general’s attornies […]
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Zagreb, March 10 (CP) – Just a few days before the start of the long-awaited trial of generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac, the Croatian government has decided to forward to The Hague Tribunal (ICTY) Interior Ministry documents dating from the time of the Storm operation.
The chief prosecutor in the Storm case, Alan […]
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