News

Deputy PM expects positive net score with EUCroatia could achieve a positive net score with the European Union of close to HRK 1 billion, Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Development and EU Funds Minister Branko Grcic told reporters after a government session on Thursday.
  08.05.2014. | News

Government proposes new aid to save jobsAt its session on Thursday, the government adopted a bill on aid for the preservation of jobs which includes the existing possibility of a non-working Friday and a new possibility of a non-working Thursday.
  08.05.2014. | News

Number of courts and prosecutors' offices to be reduced to improve serviceThe main objective of the bills on the territorial jurisdictions and seats of courts and of prosecutors' offices is to improve service to the public and increase their efficiency, Justice Minister Orsat Miljenic told a Cabinet meeting on Thursday while presenting the bills.
  08.05.2014. | News

Government moves amendments to law on cooperativesThe government sent to parliament on Thursday a bill of amendments to the Cooperatives Act, setting up the Croatian Centre for Cooperative Entrepreneurship as a legal successor to the Croatian Cooperatives Alliance.
  08.05.2014. | News

Gov't proposes lower contractual and default interest ratesThe Croatian government on Wednesday forwarded to Parliament a bill on interest rates putting the maximum allowed contractual interest rate in contracts between businesses at 12.25% and the maximum interest rate in contracts with households at 11.35%.

30.04.2014. | News

Gov't adopts micro loan programmeThe Croatian government on Wednesday adopted the credit programme "Microcredit - first step towards entrepreneurship" of the Croatian Agency for SMEs and Investments, making available to entrepreneurs loans under conditions that are much more favourable than commercial loans.

30.04.2014. | News

PM instructs ministers to determine uncollected state claimsPrime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Wednesday instructed the ministers of finance, internal affairs and justice to determine the amount of uncollected state claims at the time when the current government came to power.

30.04.2014. | News

PM says Croatian-Bulgarian trade insufficientNothing stands in the way of Croatian-Bulgarian economic cooperation but trade is insufficient because the two countries are insufficiently developed or rich, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Tuesday after meeting with his Bulgarian counterpart Plamen Oresharski.
  29.04.2014. | News

PM: Savings deposits tax may, but needn't be leviedPrime Minister Zoran Milanovic has said that a final decision on levying taxes on interest rates on savings deposits on 1 January 2015 has not yet been made, explaining that this is a possibility which may, but needn't be used.
  25.04.2014. | News