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Gov't proposes scrapping pay bonuses for public service employees until year's endFollowing a conference call on Thursday, the government proposed amendments to two bills cancelling pay supplements and Christmas and holiday bonuses for public service employees until the end of the year. 20.03.2015. | News

PM in Brussels: Croatia is gradually reducing deficitCroatia is gradually deleveraging, implementing reforms and reducing its deficit, but no one will compel us to dramatically cut consumption, Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said in Brussels on Thursday. 20.03.2015. | News | EU Affairs

Croatia's January retail sales up 2.1% y-o-yRetail sales in Croatia in January 2015 increased by 2.1% in real terms compared with January 2014, which was the sixth month in a row that consumption had grown, a second estimate of the National Bureau of Statistics showed on Thursday. 19.03.2015. | News

PM says Croatia getting close to primary surplusPrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Wednesday that a set of reforms which Zagreb was due to show to the European Commission by the end of April had not yet been finalised, however, he underscored his cabinet's commitment to reduction of deficit and public spending, as a result of which the government budget was close to a primary surplus. 19.03.2015. | News

Croatian Government launches open data portal - data.gov.hrGovernment officials on Thursday launched a new, open data portal called data.gov.hr, which offers in a single place all data related to public administration and is an integral part of the e-citizens project. 19.03.2015. | News

Government approves loans for three rail companiesThe Croatian government decided on Wednesday to launch the procedure for the conclusion of a guarantee agreement and for the granting of approval for loan agreements between three companies within the national rail operator Hrvatske Zeljeznice (HZ) and the International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD). 18.03.2015. | News

Minister Hajdas Doncic says PM didn't undermine motorway lease, debt monetisation to continueTransport Minister Sinisa Hajdas Doncic on Monday dismissed criticisms that Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic had undermined the project of monetising the debt of two state-owned motorway operators by leasing out the motorways, which Hajdas Doncic had advocated strongly, saying that the government was still committed to the monetisation of public debt. 17.03.2015. | News

Croatian and Bulgarian ministers discuss cooperation and absorption of EU fundsExperience relating to the absorption of EU funds was the main topic of talks between Croatian Regional Development and EU Funds Minister Branko Grcic and Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister in charge of EU funds and economic policies, Tomislav Donchev, held in Zagreb on Tuesday. 17.03.2015. | News | EU Affairs

PM talks protesting war veterans, opposition chief, motorways leasePrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Monday he had no comment on Saturday's protest by war veterans outside his home, adding that he was not home, but had he been, he would have come out because he "would always come out among people." 16.03.2015. | News | Economy

Minister says funds won't be transferred from second to first pension pillarLabour and Pension System Minister Mirando Mrsic has dismissed the possibility of transferring funds from the second to the first pension pillar, saying that in the long run it would impoverish all workers paying contributions into the second pillar. 14.03.2015. | News | Labour and Pensions