Zagreb, March 4 (CP) – Zagrebacko Kazaliste Mladih (ZKM) theatre is to stage a play, which is to be accompanied by subtitles in English once a month as of March.
The effort is to expand the cultural offer of the Croatian capital, enabling those who do not have the command of the Croatian language to have […]
Zagreb, March 3 (CP) – The Zagreb Stock Exchange index, Crobex, has ended February with a 5.9 percent drop, brining the total loss since the start of 2008 to more than 19 percent.
The January drop in value totalled 14 percent.
The more moderate drop in February was accompanied by a considerably lower liquidity of the market, […]
Zagreb, February 3 (CP) – PM Ivo Sanader said that there was no dilemma between EU and the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP), as Croatia needed to protect its national interest but also join the EU.
Sanader said Croatia’s goal was to join the EU and fulfil the conditions to do so, but said that […]
Zagreb, March 3 (CP) – The Croatian Peoples’ Party leader and the head of the National Commission for Monitoring EU Negotiations, Vesna Pusic has announced Croatia would recognize Kosovo’s independence in about two week’s time.
Pusic said that Kosovo represented a political fact and Croatia needed to recognize its independence. She added that according to what […]
Zagreb, March 3 (CP) — The Croatian movie “The Living and the Dead” by director Kristijan Milić has been voted the best of eight films in competition in the “Europe out of Europe” program of the 36th Belgrade FEST film festival.
The panel of judges chose Milić’s anti-war film for it’s precise direction, distinguished acting and […]
Zagreb, March 3 (CP) — In response to media speculation that the Swiss packaged food multinational Nestle intends to take over the Podravka company in Croatia, Podravka’s CEO, Darko Marinac has stated that Podravka is neither negotiating nor assisting any investors in the purchase of stock, nor does it have the authority to do so.
Marinac […]
Zagreb, March 3 (CP) – Some 56 percent of Croats picked the full implementation of the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) over EU membership, claims a Vecernji List daily survey.
In a survey conducted on February 28 and 29 on a total of 900 people, as many as 56 percent have said they would rather […]
Zagreb, March 2 (CP) – Speaking to Banja Luka’s Nezavisne Novine paper, deputy PM Slobodan Uzelac said that the time had not yet come for Croatia to recognize Kosovo.
Uzelac said in an interview that bad judgement on the issue could hurt relations between Croatia and Serbia.
Speaking about the status of Serbs in Croatia, Uzelac said […]
Zagreb, March 2 (CP) – Some 2,500 Croatian football supporters have gathered in the eastern town of Vukovar on Sunday in protest against the demolition of the student dorm in Vukovar some two weeks ago when hooligans wearing Crvena Zvezda Serbian football club insignia trashed the dorms.
The protestors have arrived from across Croatia and gathered […]
Zagreb, March 2 (CP) – A storm accompanied by strong winds swept through Croatia on Saturday afternoon leaving a trail of damage in many Croatian municipalities.
East and central sections of Croatia were hit by strong winds and rain on Saturday afternoon causing electricity failures, uprooting trees and causing debris to land on motorways, slowing down […]
