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Plenkovic says will do everything so Croatia gets appropriate cohesion fundsPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Saturday he would do everything so that in the European Union's next seven-year budget Croatia was given appropriate cohesion funds, which he added were the driver of development and investment. 08.02.2020. | News

Ministry's response to coronavirus adequate and quickThere is no case of coronavirus detected in Croatia and the Health Ministry and the government acted quickly and adequately when the epidemic emerged in the world and there is no need for panic, Health Minister Vili Beros said during the cabinet meeting on Thursday. 07.02.2020. | News

PM says gov't strongly supported Rijeka as European Capital of Culture projectPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Thursday congratulated Rijeka on a recent ceremony inaugurating the city as the European Capital of Culture, saying that over the past few years the government had strongly supported the project and there was therefore no room for speculation that the government had any reservations about that. 07.02.2020. | News

PM Plenkovic again invites Pope Francis to visit CroatiaPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Thursday invited Pope Francis to visit Croatia, expressing hope the visit would happen at the right time even though the pope usually visits smaller European countries without a Catholic majority, and as for the canonization of Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, the pope's key message was "patience". 06.02.2020. | News

"If I forget you... The Holocaust in Croatia 1941-1945/Final destination Auschwitz" exhibition opensPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Wednesday opened an exhibition on the suffering of Jews in WWII in the French Pavilion of the Zagreb Student Centre (SC), the building in front of which Jews were rounded up to be deported in railway wagons to death camps during the Second World War. 05.02.2020. | News

Croatian officials address int'l conference on promoting interreligious dialoguePrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Tuesday at the conference Human Fraternity As the Foundation of Peace and Security in the World that Croatia's model of Church and state relations had enabled a consensus on respecting the freedom of conscience and religion, and dialogue and cooperation regardless of religious affiliation. 04.02.2020. | News

Plenkovic: Croatia faced with crucial decade for EU membershipPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Tuesday that Croatia is faced with a crucial decade for its membership of the European Union because only after the country absorbs funds from the second financial perspective will it be able to draw the line and say how much it has advanced as a member. 04.02.2020. | News

Croatian woman flown from China to Zagreb, minister says no room for panicThe Croatian woman who was flown to Zagreb's airport on Sunday after she left Wuhan 12 days ago, shows no symptoms of possible infection by the novel coronavirus , and she will stay in quarantine for two more days until the expiry of the 14-day-long incubation period, Health Minister Vili Beros says. 02.02.2020. | News

PM: Dubrovnik place where synergy is achieved between local authorities and gov'tPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Sunday that Dubrovnik was a place where synergy was achieved between the ambitions of that southern city and the cooperation provided by the government for the implementation of projects, notably EU funded ones. 02.02.2020. | News

Croatian PM: Unanimous position is that we want to retain adequate funds for cohesionPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said at the end of the Friends of Cohesion summit in Portugal  on Saturday that the participants reached a unanimous conclusion that all EU members - net recipients of the European funds were in favour of preservation of adequate funds for the cohesion policy. 01.02.2020. | News