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EP President tells PM that EU supports CroatiaCroatia can count on an excessively important friend in Brussels and the European Parliament, who is on Croatia's side, President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani told a joint press conference with Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, in Zagreb on Friday. 19.05.2017. | News

Croatian PM receives award as European leader and lobbyist for BosniaCroatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Thursday received an award from the Bosnian Vecernji List daily as European leader and lobbyist for Bosnia and Herzegovina for his support to BiH last year to apply for European Union accession candidate status and pushing for the European Commission to give BiH the accession questionnaire. 18.05.2017. | News

Gov't continues implementing energy rehabilitation, introduces "no-kill" animal sheltersThe cabinet of Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Thursday decided to prolong the implementation of the programme of financial support for the energy rehabilitation of public buildings until the end of 2018 and 160 million kuna will be secured from the budget for this purpose. 18.05.2017. | News

Croatian government set to raise child benefitsThe cabinet of Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Thursday sent to the parliament draft amendments to the child benefit legislation and already set aside HRK 156.6 million in 2017 for planned increase in maternity allowances, parenting payment and other forms of child benefits. 18.05.2017. | News

Belupo invests HRK 530 mln in new plantThe Belupo pharmaceutical company on Tuesday opened a new factory in Koprivnica for solid, semi-solid and liquid medications and will employ 200 new workers. 17.05.2017. | News

PM Plenkovic: Talks about new ministers to be held after first round of local pollsPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Wednesday he would begin talks on the appointment of four new ministers after the first round of local elections on Sunday and the nominees would be presented in Parliament after the second round of voting. 17.05.2017. | News

Bleiburg commemoration heldA memorial service was held at Bleiburg field in Austria on Saturday in memory of the disarmed Croatian soldiers and civilians killed there and on the Way of the Cross death marches through Yugoslavia at the end of WWII. 13.05.2017. | News

21st Croatian Youth Sports Games startThe 21st edition of the Croatian Youth Sports Games started in the northern town of Prelog on Friday, and the Games were formally opened by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who was accompanied by a prominent retired middle distance runner, Branko Zorko, former world and Olympic skiing champion Janica Kostelic, and local officials. 12.05.2017. | News

Govt forwards unfair trade practices bill to parliamentThe Croatian government on Thursday forwarded to parliament a bill on the prevention of  unfair trading practices in the food supply chain, which is designed to protect domestic producers from unfair treatment by traders. 11.05.2017. | News

PM Plenkovic: Minority MPs are part of parliamentary majorityPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in the eastern town of Djakovo on Thursday that ethnic minorities in Croatia enjoyed all the rights to which they are entitled under the Constitution and the Constitutional Law, stressing that these rights would be fully respected. 11.05.2017. | News