Zagreb, May 18 (CP) – Croatia is to become a member of the Erasmus Mundus EU programme aimed at student cooperation securing them a possibility of studying abroad as of January 1, 2009.
The Organisation has been in place for 20 years now and has enabled so far a total of 1.7 million students to study […]
Zagreb, May 17 (CP) – If a foreigner has an eye on obtaining Croatia papers he or she will have to fork out some €3,000, about half of what he or she would have to pay in EU countries.
Although Croatia has still not joined the EU there is a lot of interest for such shady […]
Zagreb, May 17 (CP) – The Croatian hotelier Goran Strok is to reimburse the government in the amount of 160 million kuna in order to obtain control of the 15 Liburnia Rivijera hotels on the northern Croatian coast.
A deal on this was struck by voucher privatisation tycoon Darko Ostoja and Strok with Strok also promising […]
Zagreb, May 16 (CP) — The human skin cultivation that has begun at a Zagreb laboratory is to be used at the trauma centre to cover burns with skin grafts.
This will alleviate the need for import.
A great need for cultivated skin had occurred last summer when a group of firefighters were seriously injured while putting […]
Zagreb, May 16 (CP) – Some 40 Croatian Radio Television (HRT) journalists have signed a petition against programming director Domagoj Buric who wrote a memo inciting more ‘homeland’ emotions being expressed in an upcoming TV show.
Journalists of the ’30 in the Shade’ show have received a memo earlier signed by the programming director Buric demanding […]
Zagreb, May 15 (CP) – Croatia has come 49th out of 55 countries on the world competitiveness list with all EU members fairing better, but with Croatia doing better by four places than the previous year.
The list for 2008 was published by the Institute for Management Development (IMD) headquartered in Lausanne and has seen Croatia’s […]
Zagreb, May 15 (CP) – The journalists of the Slobodna Dalmacija daily are protesting against the management’s decision to move the paper’s headquarters from Split where it had been based for the past 65 years to the nearby Dugopolje.
At a meeting of the journalists they expressed dissatisfaction with the decision to move the headquarters of […]
Zagreb, May 14 (CP) – Zarko Puhovski, who had been at the helm of the Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) for quite a long time has resigned from the position at Wednesday’s plenary session of the organisation.
It is believed that Puhovski stepped down due to differences with the HHO current president Ivo Banac over the policy […]
Zagreb, May 13 (CP) – The police and neighbours came upon a gruesome discovery on Tuesday, as they discovered a totally decomposed body in bed in a locked flat in the centre of the Croatian capital Zagreb.
The body of a woman who had gone missing a long time ago was discovered in a bed in […]
Zagreb, May 13 (CP) — Deputy Prime Minister and Economy Minister, Damir Polancc, announced in Umag on Monday night that individual privatization plans for all Croatian shipyards have been completed.
It is expected that the plans will be adopted at Governments next session.
The deadline for their delivery to Brussels expires at the end of June.
