NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
December 2006
12/29/06
The Croatian Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry has denied reports from the national press on Russia being reserved towards plans for a possible increase in the amount of gas d...
12/29/06
Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader has said that the latest figures given by the Central Bureau of Statistics (DSZ) about the real growth of 4.7 percent in Gross Domestic Product in the thir...
12/29/06
The Croatian Government is intending to sell most probably 20 percent of the stock in the Croatian Telekom (HT) at public offering in 2007, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader announced on Friday.
12/28/06
The payment of two instalments of thegovernment's debt to pensioners and Christmas bonuses, an agreement on an increase in teachers' salaries, and the opening of five policy chapters in negot...
12/27/06
Croatian War Veterans Minister Jadranka Kosor presented disabled war veterans in Split on Wednesday with keys to 24 apartments in the towns of Imotski and Vrgorac.
12/20/06
PM Ivo Sanader on Constitutional Court decision rescinding direct enrolment for veterans' children
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Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on Wednesday commented on the Constitutional Court's majority vote decision to rescind the privilege of direct enrolment in high schools and universities for war ve...
12/19/06
Croatia and eight other Southeast European countries and the UN Mission in Kosovo signed in Bucharest on Tuesday a new Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA), with Croatian officials d...
12/19/06
Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Family, War Veterans and Inter-Generational Solidarity Jadranka Kosor on Tuesday met representatives of the Afghan Ministry of Women's Affai...
12/18/06
Between the start of 2004 and late November this year, the Croatian Privatisation Fund (HFP) privatised through public tenders 36 companies, another 90 companies were privatised at auctions o...
12/16/06
Commenting on Slovene Prime Minister Janez Jansa's statement that Croatia would fare as Turkey in EU negotiations over activating the Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone (EFPZ), Croatian...
12/16/06
Prime Minister Ivo Sanader opened the Coastal Shipping Agency in the southern port city of Split on Saturday.
12/16/06
The hotel "Lav", the first five-star hotel in Split County which is part of the international chain of hotels Le Meridien - Starwoods Group, was opened in Podstrana near Split on Sa...
12/15/06
The European Council on Friday ended a two-day summit with the conclusion that the enlargement of the European Union should continue, with candidate countries meeting the set criteria and the...
12/15/06
Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader met European People's Party (EPP) leader Wilfried Martens in Brussels on Friday to discuss ways of helping Croatia to achieve its goal of joining the Europ...
12/14/06
The Croatian government's public relations office on Thursday dismissed media reports about the involvement of the head of the prime minister's office, Bianca Matkovic, in alleged unlawful ac...
12/14/06
The activation of the Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone (EFPZ) for all European Union member states will start on 1 January 2008 at the latest, says the proposal which the Croatian gov...
12/14/06
European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso met Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader on Thursday, voicing strong support for Croatia's membership of the European Union.
12/14/06
By deciding to activate the Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone (EFPZ) Croatia has accomplished two goals - protecting the Adriatic Sea and not causing harm to the process of its integra...
12/13/06
Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said on Wednesday it would be good to reach a consensus on the government's proposal for the activation of the Ecological and Fisheries Protection Zone (EFPZ) in th...
12/12/06
Croatia will have an average EUR147 million annually over the next three years via the European Union's Instrument for PreAccession Assistance (IPA), the chief of the European Commission Dele...
12/12/06
The 15th anniversary of the Croatian Air Force was marked at Zagreb's Pleso airport on Tuesday, with top state officials attending.
12/12/06
This year's award for Politician of the Year goes to Ivo Sanader, Businessman of the Year to Ivica Todoric, Athlete of the Year to Janica Kostelic, and Musician of the Year to Zlatan Stipisic...
12/11/06
he human rights situation in Croatia this year has been seriously affected by a grave social situation, Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) leader Zarko Puhovski said at a ceremony marking Huma...
12/11/06
The head of the Delegation of the European Commission in Croatia, Vincent Degert, said on Monday that the European Union was against the activation of the Ecological and Fisheries Protection...
12/11/06
Complete and unbiased education of the Croatian society about the European Union and the benefits of EU membership is a common task of the Croatian government, media and European institutions...
