Zagreb, April 7 (CP) –The trial of Croatian generals Ante Gotovina, Ivan Cermak and Mladen Markac resumed this morning at the International War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague with a closed session to protect the identity of a prosecution witness.
Defence teams for the generals objected to holding a closed session.
The trial of general Gotovin, […]
Zagreb, April 7 (CP) – The Tourism Minister Bozidar Kalmeta has ordered that commercial ships in Croatia can be no older than 20 years, while passenger ones should be no older than 25.
Also, ships making it into the fishing vessels register for the first time cannot be older than 15 years.
The measures introduced are part […]
Zagreb, April 6 (CP) – During talks with PM Ivo Sanader on Saturday morning in Zagreb, US president G.W. Bush announced that the US coulw continue cooperating with Croatia on relaxing the visa regime for Croats wishing to visit their relatives in the US.
Bush said that he was not making big promises, but said that […]
Zagreb, April 6 (CP) – PM Ivo Sanader and US President George Bush met at 9:30 local Zagreb time at the PM’s office situated in Mark’s Square, where Bush is scheduled to address the Croatian people once the talks with the PM end.
People with valid passes including reporters and performers, as well as regular citizens […]
Zagreb, April 5 (CP) – Police officers stumbled upon a decomposing dead body of a man as they were guarding the route that US president Bush’s motorcade was to pass between the Zagreb airport and city.
The police have said that the decomposed body of a man was discovered some 20 meters from the road leading […]
Zagreb, April 4 (CP) – A former Constitutional Court president Jadranko Crnic has died at the age of 81.
He had become a judge of the Constitutional Court in 1984 and its president in 1990. He was awarded another Constitutional Court president 4-year mandate in 1995.
Zagreb, April 4 (CP) – The cabinet has agreed that as of June 1 the zero alcohol tolerance for drivers be scrapped and returned to 0.5 tolerance.
However, this will not be true for all motorists, as professional drivers like ambulance, taxi drivers and the like will have to stick to old rules including young drivers […]
Zagreb, April 3 (CP) — The Zadar team soccer player Hrvoje Custic, 35, who sustained a head injury in Saturday’s first division game with Cibalija held in Zadar on Saturday.
Although he was expected to fully recover after surgery and the medicinally induced come, he succumbed to an infection.
The young athlete had slammed into a concrete […]
Zagreb, April 3 (CP) – The body of a 55-year-old Swedish national was discovered near a car bearing Swedish number plates by the Merag-Cres road on Wednesday afternoon.
Initially, the police thought the man had been killed, but later indications pointed to suicide.
The car near which the body was found was set alight.
A post-mortem s still […]
Zagreb, April 2 (CP) – The Social Democratic Party leader Zoran Milanovic has signed a petition in favour of NATO membership being put to a referendum.
Milanovic explained that such important decisions need to be made through a joint effort by politicians and citizens.
He added that SDP was in favour of Croatia joining NATO, but is […]
