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Debts written off for 5,800 citizensSo far 5,800 citizens have been granted debt write-offs and 9,000 applications are still being processed, Deputy Prime Minister and Social Policy and Youth Minister Milanka Opacic said after a government session on Thursday. 17.04.2015. | News

Croatia raises fuel and tobacco excises to cut budget gapThe Croatian government on Thursday decided to increase excise taxes on gasoline and diesel by HRK 0.20 per litre as well as to raise excise duties on tobacco products in order to increase state budget revenues, with the explanation that this decision arose from Croatia's obligation to curb excessive macroeconomic imbalances, as requested by the European Commission. 17.04.2015. | News

EU commissioner praises Croatia for aiding flood victimsCroatia is an important European partner in providing aid to people struck by natural disasters, EU Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Commissioner Christos Stylianides said in Zagreb on Friday after meeting with Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusic. 17.04.2015. | News

EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Crisis Management to visit Croatia 16.04.2015. | Announcements

Milanovic tells MPs deficit-cutting measures won't be an unpleasant surprisePrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said in parliament on Wednesday that in a few days' time the government would submit to parliament measures designed to reduce the budget deficit, which it is required to send to the European Commission by April 21, adding that the MPs would "most definitely not be unpleasantly surprised by those measures". 16.04.2015. | News

Grcic announces "correction" of excise duties in bid to make savingsAdditional budgetary savings that should amount to 0.4% of Gross Domestic Product, that is to HRK 1.3 billion, as requested by Pierre Moscovici on Tuesday, will be achieved through "correction of some excise duties" and through the reduction of certain material expenses, said Grcic 16.04.2015. | News | Economy

Minister Mrsic: In the first quarter of the year 10,500 young people had been hired for indefinite periods"If we continue at this pace, by the end of the year between 30,000 and 40,000 young people will be hired for indefinite periods of time and will stay in Croatia," Mrsic said during Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday  16.04.2015. | News | Labour and Pensions

Milanovic: I won't let INA become shopping mall for foreign fuelPrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Wednesday that Croatia needed to preserve its oil refining capacity, stressing that he would not allow the national oil company INA to become "a shopping mall for the sale of imported sweets and foreign fuel." 16.04.2015. | News

Milanovic and Plevneliev: Croatia-Bulgaria relations are very goodRelations between Croatia and Bulgaria are very good, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic and Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev said during their meeting in Zagreb on Tuesday 15.04.2015. | News | Press releases

Commissioner sees talks with Croatian ministers as positiveEuropean Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici on Tuesday positively assessed his talks with Croatian ministers Branko Grcic and Boris Lalovac, adding that some more work needed to be done by next week, including additional fiscal efforts in the amount of 0.4% of GDP. 15.04.2015. | News