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PM says lack of agreement on INA buyout price may become insurmountable problemPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Tuesday that if Croatia and Hungary failed to reach agreement on the price at which MOL's stake in INA would be bought back by Croatia, that problem would become insurmountable because no one was in a position to set aside more funds than they could or should. 05.12.2018. | News

Plenković: Until reaching agreement we want INA to work well and share shareholders more with confidenceThe Central European Initiative (CEI) has been revitalised, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in an interview with Croatian public television HRT on Tuesday evening after a summit in Zagreb at which 18 countries of Central and Eastern Europe strongly supported Ukraine whose territorial integrity had been violated by Russia. 05.12.2018. | News

Croatian and Romanian PMs discuss intensifying cooperationCroatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic and his visiting Romanian counterpart, Vasilica Viorica Dancila, met in Zagreb on Monday to discuss the forthcoming European Union presidency trio which includes Romania, Finland and Croatia, and announced the intensification of cooperation in that format 03.12.2018. | News

PM Plenkovic met PM OrbanThe prime ministers of Croatia and Hungary, Andrej Plenkovic and Viktor Orban respectively, said after their meeting in Zagreb on Monday that the only issue burdening relations between the two countries was the management of the Croatian INA oil company, in which Hungary's MOL is a part owner, adding that should MOL decide to sell its share to Croatia, the key point to agree on would be the price. 03.12.2018. | News

CEI - Croatian PresidencyCroatia is presiding over the Central European Initiative (CEI) 1 January-31 December 2018. 03.12.2018. | News

Net minimum wage increased to HRK 3,000, the highest one-off increase of the minimum wage since 2008The government on Friday sent to parliament a package of pension reform bills, several amendments regulating reform measures aimed at combining several state agencies in order to save money and reopening the State Inspectorate, closed five years ago. 30.11.2018. | News

GDP growth based on sound basisAt the government session on Friday, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic announced an increase in the net miminum wage from HRK 2,752 to HRK 3,000, an increase of HRK 248 or 9% compared to 2018, underscoring that this is the largest one-off increase in the minimum wage since 2008. 30.11.2018. | News

Plenkovic: Friends of Cohesion meeting important to reiterate need to reduce inequality in EUThe Friends of Cohesion meeting in Bratislava is a good opportunity to reiterate the importance of balanced regional development of all European Union member states and the need to reduce the inequalities between them, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Thursday. 29.11.2018. | News

Folksinging from Medjimurje and art of dry stone walling on list of UNESCO Intangible Cultural HeritageMedjimurska popevka, a folksong from the northwest Croatian region of Medjimurje, and the art of dry stone walling, practiced in Croatia, Cyprus, France, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Spain and Switzerland, were inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity during an UNESCO meeting in Port Louis, Mauritius. 28.11.2018. | News

Needs of Croatian citizens are the focus of my cabinet, says PlenkovicWhile presenting the draft budget for 2019 in parliament on Tuesday, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic described the budget as development-oriented and socially sensitive, underscoring that the needs of the Croatian citizens will be the focus of his cabinet. 27.11.2018. | News