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Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic has extended his condolences to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani following a plane crash in the southwest of the country, the Prime Minister's Office said on Sunday.

• 18.02.2018.

The government sent to parliament on Thursday a final bill on strategic projects aimed at accelerating the process of obtaining documentation necessary for the implementation of strategic investment projects and halving the investment value criterion from HRK 150 million to HRK 75 million.

• 16.02.2018.

The Croatian government on Thursday forwarded to parliament a bill on the transfer and processing of personal data on air passengers for the purpose of preventing, discovering, investigating and prosecuting crimes of terrorism and other grave types of crime, thus transposing into national law an EU directive designed to make the prevention of international crime more efficient.

• 16.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Tuesday said that other countries are expressing their preference on whether they want to and in what way be actors on the Croatian energy market, however, it is  Croatia that will decided on that.

• 13.02.2018.

The EU digital single market has no alternative and its construction is the EU's priority for a better global competitiveness so that its citizens could benefit more from the digital age and cut losses which now, without that market, amount to approximately EUR 415 billionin the EU.

• 13.02.2018.

Negotiations on the war reparations agreement should be renewed, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Zagreb on Monday, agreeing with him that the Croatian-Serbian border commission should meet by the end of March and that talks should begin on a war crimes prosecution bilateral agreement, the government said in a press release.

• 13.02.2018.

The government on Thursday tabled draft amendments to the Lease of Flats Act in order to secure a fair balance between the interests of landlords and protected lessees, Construction Minister Predrag Stromar said at the cabinet's meeting in Zagreb.

• 08.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Thursday the government was satisfied with the European Commission's Winter Forecast, which envisages a 2.8% GDP growth for Croatia this year, and added that, as for the Agrokor group, the government would decide on further action after examining the relevant documentation.

• 08.02.2018.

• 06.02.2018.

The fight against corruption, decentralisation, protection of minorities and promotion of culture will be the priorities of the Croatian presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic announced in Strasbourg on Tuesday after meeting with the organisation's Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland.

• 06.02.2018.

Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Tuesday sent a letter of congratulation to reelected Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades, the office of the Croatian premier said in a press release.

• 06.02.2018.

The equality of states, citizens and opportunities is important for further building Europe's future and for the credibility of the European project, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in the European Parliament on Tuesday, underlining joint achievements as an instrument in building the EU's future.

• 06.02.2018.