Zagreb, April 25 (CP) – The Croatian parliament is to debate the zero alcohol tolerance provision of the Transport Law and scrap the provision.
The ineffective provision is to become history as of June 1 and the provision on the return of 0.5 blood alcohol will be reintroduced.
However, the 0.5 would be in effect only if […]
Zagreb, April 24 (CP) — The Croatian government has adopted the protected personal number law and forwarded it to parliament.
The tax number or OIB will enable easier tracking of the citizen’s incomes, tax payments and real estate purchases.
The tax numbers will be awarded to citizens as of Jan. 1, 2008 and will not contain any […]
Zagreb, April 23 (CP) — Chief State Prosecutor Mladen Bajic said speaking at a gathering on Wednesday that the state institutions, with the exception of the Interior Ministry, are not effective in discovering corruption, something criticized by the European Commission.
It was stated that the functioning of institutions as one of the major determinants in fighting […]
Zagreb, April 23 (CP) — A 16-year-old boy commits suicide by throwing himself off the 12th floor of a skyscraper in Zagreb on Wednesday.
The reasons for the suicide are sketchy, but neighbours and friends of the boy are claiming he was simply testing a parachute that had malfunctioned.
Zagreb, April 22 (CP) – A 62-year-old British tourist has died during a walking trip on Croatia’s Mount Biokovo overlooking the tourist resort of Makarska.
Jeremiah Lesley, 62, was walking with a party of fellow tourists in the woods, when he suddenly fell to the ground.
He was pronounced dead at 11:10 am, local time on Tuesday.
Makarska […]
Zagreb, April 22 (CP) — The Opatija restaurant Plavi Podrum headed by Croatia’s best known sommelier Daniela Kramaric Tariba has made it onto the list of 100 world’s best restaurants.
Topping the list for the third year running is the El Bulli restaurant at Spain’s Costa Brava.
Zagreb, April 21 (CP) – A Croatian Homeland war veteran destroyed his neighbours house and killed himself in the process in Vulisinac near Lepoglava on Sunday evening.
It is not clear what drove the veteran to commit such a terrible act, but it is believed the explosion came after an altercation with his neighbour when he […]
Zagreb, April 19 (CP) – Croatia is being shook by lottery fever as the players are looking at a potential win of 10.5 million kuna.
The Croats are expected to flock to the Hrvatska lutrija, the local lottery outposts on Saturday and one of the luckiest places to buy tickets is allegedly a Velika Gorica branch […]
Zagreb, April 18 (CP) – Unofficial reports claim the Dubrovnik police tried to ignore and avoid informing the media of a recent attack on American students.
After receiving queries from journalists interested in the case, the police denied there had been an incident and the American students from the Emerson college from Boston, who were the […]
Zagreb, April 16 (CP) – A 61-year-old man tried to commit suicide in front of the Zagreb city authorities’ building on Wednesday by setting himself alight.
The man’s life was saved by security guards who leapt out of the building and calmed him down and brought him indoors.
The man was taken to a psychiatric hospital following […]
