Croatia Topping the European Plastic Bottle Recyclers’ List

Zagreb, February 3 (CP) – Croatia has reached a milestone in the plastic bottles recycling realm, as it recycles two billion bottles over a little more than two years and tops the European list of bottle recyclers.
The Environment Protection Ministry has announced that in 25 months since a new regulation on plastic packaging had come […]

Jelko Kacin Accuses Sanader of Lying; Croatian Gvt Rejects Claims

Zagreb, February 2 (CP) – The Slovene European Parliament member and rapporteur for Serbia, Jelko Kacin told Deutsche Welle and Slovene Television that Croatian PM Ivo Sanader needs to face up and tell Croatians the truth about the relations between Croatia and Italy.
Kacin is claiming that Italy is demanding the reconsidering of maritime borders between […]

Government Working on Action Plan for Speeding up EU Negotiations

Zagreb, February 2 (CP) – According to the Jutarnji List daily, cabinet ministers have been tasked with outlining to PM Ivo Sanader on Monday what they will be doing in each of their fields to speed up Croatia’s EU accession negotiations.
It seems that the Justice Minister Ana Lovrin will be feeling the heat most, as […]

Agrokor Concern To Invest €40 Million in Macedonia

Zagreb, February 2 (CP) –- The Croatian Agrokor concern is to build two produce purchase centres in Macedonia, the produce then being sold in the region and in Europe.
The effort will secure an increase in the production of vegetables in hothouses.
The first of the two centres, the one in Strumica meant for vegetables, is to […]

Presidents Mesic and Tuerk Meet in a Bid To Difuse Strained Relations between Croatia and Slovenia

Zagreb, February 1 (CP) – President Stjepan Mesic and his Slovene counterpart Danilo Tuerk have met at the Otocac castle on Friday, this being their first unofficial meeting since Tuerk took office in December 2007.
The two have agreed that other Croatian and Slovene senior politicians should follow in their footsteps in an attempt to resolve […]

Rupel Ready To Meet Jandrokovic

Zagreb, February 1, (CP) — The Slovene Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel has said he was ready to meet the new Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic as soon as a suitable time is agreed to.
He said that one of the reasons for mounting unresloved issues between the two countries was the fact that last year there […]

EU Commission Head of Delegation Warns of Potential Freezing of EU Negotiations

Zagreb, January 31, (CP) – The head of the European Delegation mission in Croatia, Vincent Degert has warned president Stjepan Mesic of the possibility of Croatia’s EU accession negotiations being frozen due to problems like Croatia’s implementation of the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt in the Adriatic against EU countries Italy and Slovenia.
Degert also mentioned […]

Swoboda: Croatia Needs To Back down

agreb, January 31 (CP) – European Parliament  MPs Social-Democrat Club deputy president MPs and Croatia rapporteur, Austrian Hannes Swoboda has said that he thinks Croatia should at least in part take back its decisions regarding the Protected Ecology and Fisheries Belt (ZERP) and give responses to Slovenes on unresolved issues.
He said there existed a danger […]

President Mesic To Meet Slovene Counterpart Tuerk on Friday in Slovenia

Zagreb, January 30 (CP) – President Stjepan Mesic will be meeting with his Slovene opposite number Danilo Tuerk on Friday in the Slovene town of Crnomelj.
This will be the first meeting of the two presidents’ since Tuerk assumed office in November 2007. The meeting is said to be of an unofficial nature, but the two […]

Foreign Ministry Reacts to Rupel’s Claims

Zagreb, January 30 (CP) — The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration has refuted claims by Slovene Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel who said that over the past few months Croatia had practically severed diplomatic relations with Slovenia and that there has been no contact between the two countries’ foreign ministries for six months.  
This […]

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