ZAGREB, June 30 (CP) - Croatia’s Security and Intelligence Agency (SOA) has put out its web site www.soa.hr and is looking to recruit agents.
The explanation for the website being set up is to enable better understanding of the work of the agency by the general public and facilitate contacts with them.
It has become a common […]
Zagreb, June 28 (CP) – For the seventh year running Zagreb is to host the Gay Pride march that is to take place through the centre of the capital in the early afternoon of Saturday under the motto You Have the Courage.
The goal of this year’s event is heightening the visibility of gay people in […]
Zagreb, June 27 (CP) – The UEFA disciplinary commission has fined the Croatian Football Association (HNS) €60,000 for Croatia football supporters’ inappropriate conduct during the Croatia-Turkey game of the EURO2008.
The explanation gives is that some two dozen fires were burning during the game in the section of the stadium occupied by Croatian supporters.
The HNS has […]
Zagreb, June 27 (CP) – A construction workers was killed when some metal tubing fell onto his head as it was being unloaded from a truck.
The incident happened in Zagreb’s Maksimir area and it resulted in traffic being halted for several hours in the street where it occurred.
Zagreb, June 26 (CP) – A third of the Croats thinks the European Union is a good thing, while a quarter believe that it is bad for Croatia, the results of Eurobarometre show.
As many as 39 percent of those surveyed believe the EU was neither good nor bad.
Zagreb, June 25 (CP) — The French European Affairs Secretary Jean-Pierre Jouyet has said speaking at a conference on Balkans’ progress that Croatia had made a lot of progress in its accession negotiations and the aim of the French EU presidency will be the opening and closing of nearly all of the negotiation chapters.
Jouyet said […]
Zagreb, June 24 (CP) – The Croatian capital’s old town is to be shut to all traffic as of July 1, the only vehicles allowed in the area will be those of emergency services, the residents, those of parliament, government, constitutional court and the city assembly.
The vehicles allowed in the area will be issued special […]
Zagreb, June 24 (CP) – The INA oil company has begun with its oil prospecting work in the Bloka Moghan-2 Iranian oil field.
An agreement on this was signed earlier with the Iranian National Oil Company (NIOC) after a tender had been put out in February 2007.
The contract covers oil prospecting and drilling for the next […]
Zagreb, June 23 (CP) – Split businessman Zeljko Kerum who has recently been criticised by PM Ivo Sanader for buying expensive yahts and cars, while his workers are suffering due to low wages is to purchase the Regent Esplanade Hotel, one of Zagreb’s oldest and most beautiful hotels from the current Austrian owners.
According to a […]
Zagreb, June 23 (CP) – Following 16 months of legal wrangling, the Dubrovnik International University, the only private university in Croatia has been given approval of the Science, Sports and Education Ministry to set up international relations and diplomacy, international business dealings and economy and acting courses.
The Univesity will start operating in line with the […]
