Archive for March, 2008
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Zagreb, March 20 (CP) – The Slovene Foreign Ministry has informed the Croatian Foreign Ministry that as of Friday, March 21 Croats holding old identity cards will no longer be allowed over the border into Slovenia.
The Slovene Foreign Ministry explained the old identity cards no longer match the EU security standards.
Croatian nationals holding a valid […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Zagreb, March 20 (CP) – A fishing boat crew stumbled upon the body of 40-year-old fisherman Adam Vlacic from Labin who went missing near Rabac off the Istrian coast on February 18.
The police have as yet not confirmed the identity of the body, but his wife has told the police it would most probably be […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Zagreb, March 20 (CP) –Officials from the Slovenian Agricultural and Forestry Land Fund yesterday tried to conduct an inspection south of the river Dragonja, but were prevented from entering Croatia by Croatian border police.
The Croatian Ambassador to Slovenia, Mario Nobilo has received a protest note from the Slovenian government. This is the latest incident in […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Zagreb, March 20 (CP) — After a 6 month break, the Croatian Privatization Fund held a meeting of its board of directors today, announcing a public tender for the purchase of just under 67% of shares in the Karlovac based dairy producer KIM.
The starting price given is 15.8 million kuna, 75% of the estimated value […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Zagreb, March 20 (CP) — The US president G.W. Bush is to visit Croatia on April 4 and 5 together with his wife Laura. Also accompanying the US president will be State Secretary Condoleezza Rice and National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.
This was announced by the state secretary at the Foreign Ministry Bianca Matkovic, who is […]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Zagreb, March 19 (CP) — The president of the national committee in charge of monitoring negotiations with the EU, Vesna Pusic has said that Croatia had done the right thing regarding the recognition of Kosovo, as Kosovo needs to be recognized as a political fact and also because some things need to be done because […]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Zagreb, March 19 (CP) – Former Croatian tennis player Goran Ivanisevic has decided to move his family to the States after being found out of cheating on his partner Tanja Dragovic with a local model.
It has been reported that Ivanisevic, his partner and two children arrived in Los Angeles on Tuesday, greeted by a hoard […]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Zagreb, March 19 (CP) – At its closed-door session, the Croatian government has formally recognized Kosovo’s independence, joining some 30 countries that have recognized it so far.
Kosovo had declared its independence on February 17.
It is yet to be seen now how the government coalition partners, namely the Independent Democratic Serb Party (SDSS) will react to […]
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Zagreb, March 19 (CP) –At the ATP Masters Series tennis tournament underway in Indian Wells California, Ivan Ljubicic remains Croatia’s only competitor after defeating Tommy Robredo of Spain 6-3, 6-4 yesterday.
Ljubicic faces Roger Federer of Switzerland next. Both Mario Ancic and Karlovic were eliminated in thier third round matches.
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
The Slovenian ministry of Agriculture issued a statement yesterday which denied claims which appeared in some Croatian media sources, that Slovenia intends to charge Croatia for alleged damages done to Slovenian fishermen as a result of implementation of the Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone in the Adriatic.
The statement explained that there had been a misunderstanding […]
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