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PM Milanovic: "Croatia welcomes the guidelines from Bucharest regarding the development of cooperation between China and Club 16"Croatia must open to Chinese capital and companies, removing administrative barriers, however, when it comes to large-scale infrastructure projects, we must focus more on structural funds from the European Union than on borrowing, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said in Bucharest after the China-Central and East Europe summit.

26.11.2013. | News

Government moves 3.23 pct interest rate on Swiss franc loansThe government on Thursday sent to parliament an amendment to a final bill of amendments to the consumer credit law, recommending an interest rate of 3.23 per cent on loans pegged to the Swiss franc as of January 1.

21.11.2013. | News

Government sends 2013 budget revision bill to ParliamentThe Croatian government sent the 2013 budget revision bill to Parliament on Thursday, reducing revenues by HRK 2.9 billion to 110.25 billion and increasing expenditures by HRK 3.2 billion to 126.8 billion.

14.11.2013. | News

Prime Minister Milanovic: Solving youth unemployment depends on structural policy and years of work Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said in Paris on Tuesday he doubted that the youth unemployment rate in Croatia was 52 per cent, saying it was certainly higher than the European average but not that high.

12.11.2013. | News

Different views on INA between Zagreb and MOL confirmed, talks continueNegotiators of the Croatian government and the Hungarian oil and gas company MOL on Friday held a second round of negotiations on their relationship in the Croatian oil and gas company INA, saying afterwards the meeting confirmed their different viewpoints but that they would resume the negotiations.
  08.11.2013. | News

Govt. proposes bill on minimum secured allowance of HRK 2,900 per monthThe government on Thursday approved a bill on social welfare that proposes to unify four benefits into one which would be known as a single guaranteed welfare benefit and which could amount to a maximum of HRK 2,900 per month.
  07.11.2013. | News

Government gives positive opinion on work of state prosecutor's officeThe government at its session on Thursday proposed to parliament to endorse a report of the Chief State Prosecutor's Office (DORH) for 2012, adding several comments to parts of the report.
  31.10.2013. | News

Grcic: Croatia has made greater progress over last year than in previous fiveThe key message from the World Bank's Doing Business report is that over the last year Croatia has made progress in five of ten areas, and also interesting is the indication that the progress has been greater than in the previous five years, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Regional Development and EU Funds, Branko Grcic told the press.

29.10.2013. | News