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No need to revise the Vatican treaties, cooperation with the Catholic Church and all religious communities well-arrangedPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Thursday the government rejected an interpellation submitted by 16 MPs regarding the procurement of fighter jets, adding that everything the government had done about that was more resolute and brave with regard to the modernisation of the air force than any previous government. 07.02.2019. | News

Measures for housing care as a contribution to demographic revitalization of CroatiaThe government on Thursday unanimously adopted a report on an interpellation submitted by 16 Social Democratic Party (SDP) MPs about its performance in the procurement of fighter jets, assessing the claims in the interpellation as unfounded. 07.02.2019. | News

Croatian government awaiting ICSID ruling in case brought by Hungary's MOLArbitration proceedings which the Hungarian energy group MOL has launched against Croatia before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) in Washington are still ongoing and a ruling is pending, and Croatia has contested the jurisdiction of the arbitration tribunal in Washington in all arbitration proceedings initiated against it based on investment protection agreements with EU member states or the Energy Charter Treaty, the government said in response to a query from Hina on Wednesday. 06.02.2019. | News

PM says Vatican agreements won't be amendedPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, said on Wednesday the government was against a revision of the Vatican agreements, stressing that the treaties would not be amendment. 06.02.2019. | News

Fighting cancer is gov't priority, says health ministerFighting cancer is the government's priority this year, which is why the adoption of a national cancer plan was included in the government's reform plan in order to raise public awareness of cancer as a big public health problem and to improve prevention, check-up rates, diagnostics and therapy, Health Minister Milan Kujundtic said on Monday on the occasion of World Cancer Day. 05.02.2019. | News

PM says Dubrovnik leader in many areas throughout centuriesAttending a ceremony at the Dubrovnik City Council on the occasion of the city's day and the day of its patron saint, St Blaise, February 3, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said that prudent governance, trade, diplomacy and love of freedom had made Dubrovnik a leader in many areas throughout the centuries. 04.02.2019. | News

Ministers report on results, projectsAt Friday's government meeting in Dubrovnik, ministers reported about what was done in their departments over the past period and plans about the period ahead, with Labour Minister Marko Pavic boasting of drawing more than HRK 300 million from the European Social Fund, of ensuring prerequisites for tourism development, and of a decrease in unemployment which, according to Eurostat, was 7.7% in December, below the European Union average. 01.02.2019. | News

Anniversaries of inscription of Dubrovnik's Old City and Festivity of Saint Blaise to UNESCO lists marked at conferenceA conference on the synergy of World Heritage properties and the Intangible Cultural Heritage took place at Dubrovnik University on Friday on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the inscription of the Old City of Dubrovnik to the UNESCO World Heritage List and the 10th anniversary since the Festivity of Saint Blaise, the patron-saint of Dubrovnik, was added to UNESCO'S Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. 01.02.2019. | News

PM says projects in Dubrovnik area worth EUR 608MPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said at a government meeting in Dubrovnik on Friday that 40 decisions on projects in Dubrovnik-Neretva County would be adopted today and that the contracts to be signed afterwards would be worth nearly HRK 4.5 billion. 01.02.2019. | News

PM says jet purchase to be analysed, discussed in parliamentPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in the coastal town of Ploce on Thursday that the government was close to completing an analysis into why the planned purchase of multipurpose fighter jets from Israel had failed, adding that he believed the parliament, too, would discuss the matter. 31.01.2019. | News