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Zagreb, February 6 (CP) — Members of consumer’s associations have called for a one week shopping boycott in the country so that citizens may demonstrate their dissatisfaction with prices and the treatment of consumers.
Consumers have been called upon to show their strength and only purchase products that are absolutely necessary for a week, starting Thursday.
Associations […]

Zagreb, February 6 (CP) – The coastal town of Split and its Poljud stadium are to host Wednesday evening’s friendly between the Croatian and Dutch soccer squads.
The Croatian squad has drawn six and lost two matches in Split since Croatia’s gaining independence in 1991 playing in Split.
It is hoping to end the string of winless matches […]

Zagreb, February 5 (CP) – President Stjepan Mesic has stated that the reason for the stalling of Croatia’s EU membership negotiations was not Slovenia, but rather the fact that Croatia had not opened up enough negotiating chapters and had not closed the ones that had been opened.
He stressed that Croatia enjoyed good relations with Slovenia, […]

Zagreb, February 5 (CP) — The most renowned European fire expert Domingos Xavier Viegas is visiting Sibenik in a bid to together with several other experts try to find out how the 12 fire-fighters died in August 2007 in Kornat, after they were called up to put out a fire on the island.
He had already […]

Zagreb, February 5 (CP) – A Promocija Plus polling agency survey conducted in January has shown that some 71.6 percent of Croats want to see a NATO referendum staged.
The 1,300 surveyed have said that they would rather have a referendum, than the decision on whether Croatia should become a NATO member being made solely by […]

Zagreb, February 5 (CP) – A European Parliament delegation led by Croatia rapporteur Hannes Swoboda is arriving in Croatia on Wednesday.
Swoboda and members of the delegation are expected to meet with president Stjepan Mesic, PM Ivo Sanader and visit the parliament.
In his latest draft report to the European Parliament foreign policy committee, Swoboda claims that […]

Zagreb, February 4 (CP) – According to a Gfk Hrvatska poll, some 70 percent of Croatian households are not making enough money.
An average household made about 6,370 kuna (€887) per month in 2007 with those in the Lika area, Kordun and Banovina making €688 and those in Zagreb managing €1,089.
Compared to 2006, the segment of […]

Zagreb, February 4 (CP) – The government has issued a total of 13.6 billion kuna in guarantees during 2007, of which 8.3 billion was earmarked for the transport sector and 5.7 billion for the economy sector, mostly for shipyards, which received guarantees in the amount surpassing 4.6 billion kuna.
According to a report of the Finance […]

Zagreb, February 4 (CP) – The government has issued a non-paper on the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) in the Adriatic forwarding it to all EU members.
In this unofficial document it explains its stance on the controversial implementation of ZERP in the Adriatic, reports Jutarnji List daily, quoting diplomatic sources that confirmed the existence […]

Zagreb, February 3 (CP) – Due to an oversight by the Justice Ministry everyone can fish in the recently implemented Protected Ecology and Fishery Belt (ZERP) in the Adriatic.
Prior to ZERP being implemented on January 1, 2008 all ministries in Croatia were tasked with checking legislation from their area in order to make sure there […]