Maric Zdravko

Government amends laws to enable army deployment for border protectionThe Croatian government on Friday adopted draft amendments to the laws on border control and defence to allow the armed forces to help the police in guarding the frontier when that is necessary for security or humanitarian reasons. 04.03.2016. | News

Budget revenues planned at HRK 113b, expenditures at HRK 120.4bThe revenues of the 2016 budget are planned at HRK 113 billion and expenditures at HRK 120.4 billion, with the deficit amounting to about HRK 7.5 billion, or 2.2 percent of GDP, according to guidelines for drawing up this year's budget which the government adopted on Thursday. 25.02.2016. | News

Finance Minister says new gov't will intensify growthFinance Minister Zdravko Maric said on Thursday that the European Commission's projection of Croatia's 2016 growth outlook of 2.1% was "a good starting point", and promised that the government would do its best to accelerate that growth. 04.02.2016. | News