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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 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 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.

Zagreb, May 12 (CP) – A strong rise in the minutes of mobile telephones used in Croatia has been recorded in the first quarter of 2008, reports the State Statistics Bureau.
A growth of 24 percent has been recorded year-on-year with a drop of fixed telephony usage of nine percent.
The current three mobile telephone networks in […]

Zagreb, May 9 (CP) – A pilot-project of registering limited companies via e-mail has ended its six-month run at the northern Croatian town of Varazdin’s commercial court.
The Hitro.hr project enables the setting up of a limited company online in three steps within a 24-hour period.
During the six months of the project being implemented some 198 […]

Zagreb, May 9 (CP) – A charter on cooperation was signed between Sofia, Bulgaria and the Koncar company from Croatia, which represents the first step in Sofia buying trams from Koncar.
Croatian-made trams are to go for a test-run in Sofia in September.
Sofia is facing a rehaul of its electrical tram system and is looking for […]

Zagreb, May 6 (CP) — The Minister of the Sea, Bozidar Kalmeta signed in Zadar on Tuesday some 22 contracts for the building and reconstruction of sea ports in different countries stretching from Pula to Dubrovnik.
Some 309 million kuna is to be injected into the port infrastructure during 2008 with some 213 million going on […]

Zagreb, April 30 (CP) – Serb businessman Zeljko Mitrovic, the owner of the TV Pink station has confirmed to the Belgrade TANJUG news agency he had expanded his business to Croatia by purchasing several local TV stations.
Mitrovic confirmed TV Pink would take off in Croatia once he joins the network of nine local TVs, some […]