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Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic held talks with Maltese President Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca on Monday about advancing economic cooperation and the possibility of jointly appearing on third markets, Plenkovic's office said in a press release.

• 26.02.2018.

• 26.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in Delnice on Sunday the government wanted to enable a better development of the Gorski Kotar mountainous region and that a new bill on mountainous regions would be in procedure in the second quarter of the year.

• 26.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Saturday progress had been made in the contracting and realisation of projects as part of the Slavonia, Baranja and Srijem Project, adding that it was necessary to strengthen the fiscal capacities of local government and combine the use of the state budget and European Union funds to create a framework for keeping young people in the Slavonia region.

• 24.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in Brussels  on Thursday that decision on the procurement of combat jets would be made next week. 

• 23.02.2018.

Leaders of the 27 member-states of the European Union on Friday broadly agreed on the European Parliament's proposal on the reduction of the number of MEPs in the next composition of the parliament following the exit of Britain, however, they are against automaticity in the process of the election of the European Commission President in the lead candidate process (the so-called Spitzenkandidate process).

• 23.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Thursday announced a set of six bills that would reduce the number of judicial bodies from 116 to 108 and enable mergers of misdemeanour and municipal courts, while the number of municipal courts will be increased to improve access to justice for citizens.

• 22.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said at a government session on Thursday that consultations were under way to appoint a new emergency administrator for the heavily indebted Agrokor food and retail conglomerate, and that the government would very soon propose to the Commercial Court the person to succeed Ante Ramljak, who resigned as Agrokor's emergency administrator on Wednesday, as well as his deputy.

• 22.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Wednesday that the process of emergency administration and talks on a settlement in the ailing Agrokor food conglomerate would continue, that the government was conducting consultations so that it could recommend the appointment of a new emergency administration to the Commercial Court, and that until then, Ante Ramljak would continue doing his job, as well as that there would be no government reshuffle.

• 22.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic met with the director-general of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Yves Daccord.

• 22.02.2018.

Croatian Demography, Family, Youth and Social Policy Minister Nada Murganic said on Tuesday that measures of the population policy pursued by the current government could lead to a turnaround in the negative demographic trends, and in this context she underscored the importance of economic growth and job creation, coupled with rising salaries.

• 20.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Monday received Slovakia's Foreign Minister, Ivan Korcok, for the talks on the priorities of Croatia's chairmanship of the European Union in the first half of 2020 and on Slovakia's experiences when it chaired the Union in the second half of 2016, the government said in a press release.

• 19.02.2018.