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Zagreb, Oct. 7 (CP) — The police have still not reported any new clues in the brutal killing of a 26-year-old daughter of solicitor Zvonimir Hodak who is representing ret. Gen. Vladimir Zagorec in the embezzlement case against him.Although some 50 people had been interviewed overnight following Monday’s horrific point-blanc killing of Ivana Hodak, there […]

Zagreb, July 9 (CP) – The Interior Minister Berislav Roncevic is to soon face the USKOK Anti-corruption Agency boss Dinko Cvitan over truck procurement, which lost the state budget some 14.8 million kuna in 2004.
When he was Defence Minister in 2004, Roncevic put out a tender for the procurement of 76 non-combat vehicles for which […]

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 21 (CP) – Just a few minutes after the start of the EURO2008 game between Croatia and Turkey around 9 p.m. local time, the Turkish hackers hacked the Croatian Foreign Ministry page removing its content and replacing it with their own.
The Turkish flag replaced the regular Foreign Ministry texts as well as a […]

Brussels has given Slovenia a 14-day deadline to explain its policy over the introduction of pricey motorway toll stickers as of July 1.
The stickers valid for six months and costing 35 euro will be mandatory for all motorists, the measure causing an uproar, as short-term cheaper stickers have not been offered and many tourists who […]

Zagreb, June 17 (CP) – Croatia opens two more negotiation chapters on Tuesday in its EU bid, Social Policy and Employment and Workforce Freedom of Movement.
The two chapters are the first ones that have had had set conditions for their opening.
So far Croatia has opened 18 negotiating chapters and two have been temporarily closed.
This comes […]

Zagreb, July 15 (CP) – The Tourism Minister Damir Bajs has downed a whole small bottle of wine containing 7.5 decilitres at the opening of a Krizevci fair at the same time warning the public to drink in a responsible manner.
The deputy PM Damir Polancec who was also at the opening failed to drink that […]

Zagreb, June 14 (CP) – The law on banning smoking in public areas and workplaces is to be debated by parliament next week.
Once the law is scrutinized and passed smoking will no longer be allowed in all public and work places, but small cafes may be exempt from the ban.
Smoking will only be allowed in […]

Zagreb, June 13 (CP) – The failure of Ireland to support the Lisbon treaty during a referendum held on Friday is not to endanger Croatia’s entry into the EU, as it is guranteed under the current rules.
Early returns from the Irish referendum show that 53.4 percent of the voters voted against the treaty.
The result may […]