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Zagreb, April 29 (CP) – Following protests by secondary school pupils across the county on Monday who were voicing their disapproval over the introduction of the final school exam without proper preparations, the Education Minister Dragan Primorac has announced that the whole operation was to be postponed for a year.
Primorac put some of the blame […]

Zagreb, April 2 (CP) – At a diner reception held for US President Bush on Friday evening four top Croatian athletes will be among the 60 invitees.
Blanka Vlasic, the world high jump champion, Lino Cervar handball team coach, Dino Radja once a top basketball player and Sanja Jovanovic, Croatia’s record-breaking swimmer will be attending Friday’s […]

Zagreb, April 1 (CP) — Health Minister Darko Milinović will be attending a working meeting with county prefects and hospital directors to address the functioning of the hospital system on Tuesday.
It is expected that details regarding reforms Milinović announced yesterday could be made public, where hospitals would receive enough money to cover all expenses as […]

Zagreb, March 31 (CP) – The ad hoc gathered Ant imperialistic Coalition is organising an anti-Bush protest on Friday at 5 p.m. in Franjo Tudjman’s Square.
Members of the organisation are young antifascists, members of the Croatian leftists, students and teachers at the Philosophy Faculty in Zagreb, as well as members of NGOs.
Explaining their views representatives […]

Zagreb, March 29 (CP) – Summer Time begins on Sunday March 30 with clocks being turned an hour from 2.am. to 3 a.m, announced the state measuring institution.
 

Zagreb, March 27 (CP) – According to different Croatian media, the route between the Zagreb airport and the Westin Hotel in the centre of Zagreb will be closed to all traffic on the day of US President G.W. Bush’s arrival in Zagreb, Friday April 4.
It seems that on April 5, the second day of the […]

Zagreb, March 27 (CP) – A man allegedly rummaging through a garbage can was killed when a hand grenade exploded around midnight on Wednesday in Zagreb.
The police and an ambulance had been summoned to the scene, only to pronounce the man dead.
The incident is still being investigated and the police on the scene were tight-lipped, […]

Zagreb, March 25 (CP) — The Croatian Chamber of Commerce and the Ministry of Agriculture are organizing a meeting to discuss the latest proposal of how to regulate food labels and advertising.
Regulations that are currently in use were adopted in 2004 and had generally harmonized Croatian regulations with those of the European Union.
However, the EU […]

Zagreb, March 24 (CP) – The Islamic community in Croatia held is 3rd convention on Saturday at the Zagreb Islamic centre.
Those gathered discussed a report on the work of the Community during 2007 submitted by the Islamic leader in Croatia Sevko Omerbasic. The relations with the state bodies have been described as good and in […]

Zagreb, March 24 (CP) – The police have stepped up their checks of foreigners that are currently in Croatia and explaining this intense scrutiny by the fact that US president George W. Bush was coming for a visit in less than two weeks.
The police have been combing through all the hotels, bed and breakfasts, but […]