Archive for April, 2008
Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Zagreb, April 5 (CP) – US President G.W. Bush and his entourage departed Croatia in the afternoon hours of Saturday, ending his 23-hour stay in the Croatian capital Zagreb.
During his stay, Bush met with president Stjepan Mesic and PM Ivo Sanader, had dinner organised in his honour by president Mesic with some 60 important Croats […]
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Zagreb, April 6 (CP) – During talks with PM Ivo Sanader on Saturday morning in Zagreb, US president G.W. Bush announced that the US coulw continue cooperating with Croatia on relaxing the visa regime for Croats wishing to visit their relatives in the US.
Bush said that he was not making big promises, but said that […]
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Saturday, April 5th, 2008
Zagreb, April 6 (CP) – PM Ivo Sanader and US President George Bush met at 9:30 local Zagreb time at the PM’s office situated in Mark’s Square, where Bush is scheduled to address the Croatian people once the talks with the PM end.
People with valid passes including reporters and performers, as well as regular citizens […]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Zagreb, April 5 (CP) – Police officers stumbled upon a decomposing dead body of a man as they were guarding the route that US president Bush’s motorcade was to pass between the Zagreb airport and city.
The police have said that the decomposed body of a man was discovered some 20 meters from the road leading […]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Zagreb, April 4 (CP) – As of May 1 all Kosovo citizens will have to obtain visas in order to enter Croatia.
Croatia has recognized Kosovo on March 19 and has been placed on a visa regime, as it has still not adopted basic legislation on citizenship and passports, so that most of its citizens are […]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Zagreb, April 4 (CP) – A former Constitutional Court president Jadranko Crnic has died at the age of 81.
He had become a judge of the Constitutional Court in 1984 and its president in 1990. He was awarded another Constitutional Court president 4-year mandate in 1995.
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Zagreb, April 4 (CP) – The cabinet has agreed that as of June 1 the zero alcohol tolerance for drivers be scrapped and returned to 0.5 tolerance.
However, this will not be true for all motorists, as professional drivers like ambulance, taxi drivers and the like will have to stick to old rules including young drivers […]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Zagreb, April 4 (CP) – US president George Walker Bush has arrived on Croatian soil, the Airforce One blue and white plane touching down in Zagreb at exactly five minutes to 3 p.m., local time.
The US president is arriving in Croatia to give his support to the country for its reform efforts and to acknowledge […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Zagreb, April 3 (CP) — Croatia has been extended an official invitation to join NATO in Bucharest, at the NATO summit which commenced on Wednesday evening.
The announcement was made by the NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
Scheffer said that countries that have been invited have the right to feel proud at their achievement, as […]
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Zagreb, April 3 (CP) — The Zadar team soccer player Hrvoje Custic, 35, who sustained a head injury in Saturday’s first division game with Cibalija held in Zadar on Saturday.
Although he was expected to fully recover after surgery and the medicinally induced come, he succumbed to an infection.
The young athlete had slammed into a concrete […]
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