Zagreb, April 15 (CP) — Opening the Croatian-German economic forum on Tuesday morning in Zagreb, president Stjepan Mesic spoke of the traditionally good Croatian-German relations, the notion fully supported by his German counterpart Horst Koeller. Koeller said that corruption and incomplete reforms in the judiciary represent the main stumbling blocks to even better business relations […]
Zagreb, April 14 (CP) – Arsenal striker and member of the Croatian soccer squad Eduardo da Silva is to continue the recovery from his foot injury in his native Brazil, where he is to be treated by the Brazilian squad physio expert.
It is yet to be seen whether Da Silva’s recovery will be quick enough […]
Zagreb, April 14 (CP) — The Croatian Privatisation Fund (HFP) has not received single offer for the purchase of 81.67 percent of the Adriachem company from Kastel Sucurac prior to the expiration of the deadline for the offers to be put in.
This represented the fifth attempt at selling Adriachem and the third offered under special […]
Zagreb, April 14 (CP) — The Zagreb Stock Exchange week began with a steep drop in the Crobex index and a high trade volume with some of the most liquid shares dropping to the lowest levels in a year.
Crobex value fell by 5.69 percent, the lowest since the start of January of last year, while […]
agreb, April 14 (CP) — German president Horst Koehler is on an official three-day visit to Croatia. He will be meeting with president Stjepan Mesić, with whom he is expected to talk about Croatia’s accession negotiations with the European Union, regional issues and economic cooperation.
Koehler will also meet with prime Minister Ivo Sanader and parliament […]
Zagreb, April 14 (CP) — The trial of Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, former Serbian intelligence chiefs, has started on Monday at the Hague War Crimes Tribunal.
Stanisic and Simatovic have been indicted on charges of crimes against humanity, that include murder and ethnic cleansing of non-Serbs from Serb-occupied territory in Croatia and Bosnia Herzegovina from […]
Zagreb, April 13 (CP) – Mario Ancic beat Italy’s Simone Bolelli to secure Croatia’s win in the tennis Davis Cup match in Dubrovnik and a place in the world group qualifications.
Mario Ancic beat Simone Bolelli in straight sets 3-0 after Marin Cilic lost to Andreas Seppi in a marathon match, which ended 3-2.
The overall result […]
Zagreb, April 13 (CP) – Croatian NGOs have failed to gather 450,000 signatures in favour of holding a referendum on Croatia’s joining of NATO.
Some 150,000 signatures were gathered during two weeks of the campaign.
The organisers are claiming they were low on money, the two-week deadline was too short to get enough signatures and the number […]
Zagreb, April 13 (CP) – According to a survey conducted by a local television station, residents of Split would be happiest if they could see Croatian football squad coach Slaven Bilic as the town’s mayor.
Split residents see Bilic as the best possible man for the job, but why this is so was not revealed.
Residents of […]
Zagreb, April 13 (CP) – Croatian swimmer Sanja Jovanovic has followed in the footsteps of Duje Draganja two days ago and won yet another gold for Croatia at the short-course pool world swimming championships in Manchester, England.
Jovanovic made it first in the 50 meter backstroke her time 26.37 setting the new world record.
Jovanovic said after […]
