Zagreb, March 5 (CP) – According to information in the Croatian media US president George W. Bush will be visiting Zagreb on April 4, following the NATO summit in Bucharest and will meet with Croatian senior officials on April 5.
Zagreb is already gearing up for the probable visit of the US president in April, although […]
Zagreb, March 5 (CP) – The EU Enlargement Commissioner, Olli Rehn, is arriving in Croatia today for an official two-day visit.
Rehn is scheduled to meet with Prime Minister Ivo Sanader, deputy Prime Ministers Djurdja Adlesic and Slobodan Uzelac, finance minister Ivan Šuker and Justice minister Ana Lovrin during his stay in Zagreb.
Topics of discussion are […]
Zagreb, March 5 (CP) – The 13th GAST International Fair made up of a string of specialised fairs opened in the coastal town of Split on Wednesday.
The fair specialises in food, beverages, hotelier and catering equipment and is a place where the logistics for the upcoming tourist season are secured.
This year the fair is to […]
Zagreb, March 5 (CP) – In a telephone conversation on Wednesday morning, the Croatian PM Ivo Sanader and his Slovene counterpart Janez Jansa discussed the state of bilateral relations and the continuation of the implementation of the Bled agreements.
The two agreed that the respective commissions set up on both sides after the Bled meeting begin […]
Zagreb, March 4 (CP) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission head in Croatia Robert Feldman has said that although Croatia had made certain progress over the past year, it will be hard to reach the planned economic growth rate of six percent in the coming years.
IMF is expecting Croatia’s economic growth for this year […]
Zagreb, March 4 (CP) — A Rijeka worker Aleksandar Damis has had his fist severed by a machine and it has been put back into place by surgeons at the Rijeka Susak hospital during a 9-hour operation on Tuesday.
The worker had alerted some vendors in a shop as soon as the accident happened and he […]
Zagreb, March 4 (CP) — Croatia’s foreign debt has grown by €3.7 billion during 2007 and stood at €32.9 billion at the end of 2007, reports the central bank (HNB).
The annual growth has been slowed down from 13.7 percent in 2006 to 12.5 percent in 2007. Also, the structure of foreign debt has changed, as […]
Zagreb, March 4 (CP) – A 14-year old boy is fighting for life after has setting himself on fire at school on Monday in the Croatian northern town of Varazdin.
The teenager is said to have arrived early for his classes and used the toiled coming out drenched in accelerant.
He then set himself alight in the […]
Zagreb, March 4 (CP) — Croatia is in 34th place out of 130 according to the competitiveness of its tourism and has climbed up four places from last year, claims the latest report by the World Economic Forum. Switzerland tops the list, while trailing are Austria and Germany.
Croatia’s best features are said to be its […]
Zagreb, March 4 (CP) — The State Office for Protection Against Radiation has confirmed speculations that radioactive steel has ended up in Croatia.
It has been stressed that there was no danger of radioactivity spreading, but admitted that the concentration of radioactivity was higher than standards allowed and that the steel must be disposed of.
The steel […]
