Zagreb, March 25 (CP) — The Croatian Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture are organizing a meeting to discuss the latest proposal of how to regulate food labels and advertising.
Regulations that are currently in use were adopted in 2004 and had generally harmonized Croatian regulations with those of the European Union.
However, the EU […]
Zagreb, March 25 (CP) – A car thief from the town of Karlovac was arrested not far from Rijeka suspected of stealing five cars, but his arrest did not go smoothly.
After being cornered near the Novi Vinodolski resort by the Rijeka police, the 39-year-old suspect attempted to run over a policeman and then fled to […]
Zagreb, March 24 (CP) – Croatian swimmer Duje Draganja captured the silver in the 50 meter freestyle race at the European Swimming Championship in Eindhoven, Netherlands on Sunday.
The Croatian relay team Gordan Kozulj, Vanja Rogulj, Mario Todorovic and Duje Draganja also managed to capture a silver medal, while the Russian team came first and the […]
Zagreb, March 24 (CP) – The Islamic community in Croatia held is 3rd convention on Saturday at the Zagreb Islamic centre.
Those gathered discussed a report on the work of the Community during 2007 submitted by the Islamic leader in Croatia Sevko Omerbasic. The relations with the state bodies have been described as good and in […]
Zagreb, March 24 (CP) – The police have stepped up their checks of foreigners that are currently in Croatia and explaining this intense scrutiny by the fact that US president George W. Bush was coming for a visit in less than two weeks.
The police have been combing through all the hotels, bed and breakfasts, but […]
Zagreb, March 24 (CP) – Some 64,000 tonnes of low-sulphur coal has been shipped into the Ploce port for B-H Steel metalworks from Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The shipment matches a quarters of the monthly traffic at the Ploce port.
During 2007, the Ploce port moved some 4.2 tonnes of goods, reaching record goods transport from the 80’s of the […]
Zagreb, March 24 (CP) – The Croatian navy has spent €6 on the purchase of two Finnish corvettes built in the 1980’s.
The purchase was made as part of the ‘offset’ procurement program of 126 armoured vehicles also from Finland.
The vessels are to be handed over to Croatia in mid-July and already several Croatian navy officers […]
Zagreb, March 24 (CP) — Croatian theatre and movie great Boris Dvornik died aged 69 in a Split hospital on Sunday following a stroke.
His long career included 40 feature films, numerous roles in TV dramas and series, as well as theatre roles.
Dvornik had suffered a stroke a few years ago.
Zagreb, March 23 (CP) – Croatian backstroke champion Sanja Jovanovic has managed to capture bronze in the 50-meter backstroke at the European Swimming Championships in Eindhoven in the Netherlands on Sunday.
Although Jovanovic was in the lead most of the race, she lost her rhythm at the very fishing letting Russian Anastasia Zueva capture the gold, […]
Zagreb, March 23 (CP) – Zagreb and Croatia have been picked as the hosts of the 2010 European Waterpolo Championships by the Ligue Europeenne de Natation (LEN) bureau meeting held in the Dutch town of Eindhoven.
The only other bid for the event was a joint candidature of Romanian Oradea and Hungarian Debrecen.
This makes Zagreb the […]
