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Minister Maras presents Business Impulse 2013 programThe government this year will abandon the model of vertical grants for certain branches of industry and switch to horizontal grants, and for the first time grants to small and medium-sized businesses will be larger than those for shipyards, Entrepreneurship and Crafts Minister Gordan Maras said while presenting the Business Impulse 2013 program at a government session on Thursday.
  24.01.2013. | News

Government adopts five-year contract with public broadcaster The government on Thursday adopted a draft contract with the public broadcaster Croatian Radio and Television (HRT) for the period from 1 January 2013 to 31 December 2017, defining the HRT's programming obligations and the amount and source of their financing.

24.01.2013. | News

Minister says Croatia together with IMF to try to modify its fiscal ruleThe Croatian government has begun talks with the visiting International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials on modifying the fiscal rule which Croatia finds difficult to follow due to its five-year-long recession, Finance Minister Slavko Linic said on Monday after meeting the IMF deputy managing director Nemat Shafik in the government's office.

21.01.2013. | News

Prime Minister says he visited Belgrade as government has to break down wallsPrime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Thursday once again explained why he visited Serbia yesterday, saying it was the government's job "to break down walls, regardless of who put them up."

17.01.2013. | News

Government moves to integrate optical infrastructureThe government decided on Thursday to integrate the optical infrastructure that is now scattered in seven state-owned companies into a new generation optical network that would bring broadband Internet access to all areas of Croatia.

17.01.2013. | News

Croatian, Serbian premiers meet in bid to thaw relationsThe visiting Croatian Prime Minister, Zoran Milanovic, and his host, Serbian Prime Minister, Ivica Dacic, held their first working meeting in Belgrade on Wednesday to discuss outstanding issues in their bilateral relations including refugee returns, tenancy rights, the prosecution of war crimes, the border demarcation and the genocide lawsuits the two countries filed against each other before the International Court of Justice as well as economic cooperation and European integration processes.

16.01.2013. | News

Government proposes lower housing saving incentivesThe government on Thursday adopted draft amendments to the Housing Savings Act, reducing government incentives from 15 per cent to 10 per cent.
  10.01.2013. | News

Government proposes mining billAt its session on Thursday the government sent to fast-track parliamentary procedure a mining bill aimed at enhancing control of the quantity of raw minerals exploited and the relevant exploitation fees.

10.01.2013. | News

Government to discourage polluter cars with higher taxesThe government on Thursday adopted a special motor vehicle tax bill which should, as of 1 July, discourage the purchase of vehicles with high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or the import of older vehicles and stimulate the purchase of good quality new vehicles with low CO2 emissions.

10.01.2013. | News

Prime Minister Milanovic: Salaries for several office-holders were raised on my initiativePrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Thursday that last week's increase of salary scales for heads of several government agencies, which has provoked a public outcry, was done at his initiative because public-sector executives who cannot receive bonuses should be properly rewarded for their work.

10.01.2013. | News