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Prime Minister Milanovic says will not take on new obligations for Croatia in Brussels SundayPrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Saturday that the draft document prepared for the EU summit on the migrant crisis, to be held in Brussels on Sunday, was flippant and entirely unrealistic, adding that he would not be assuming any obligations for Croatia on Sunday. 24.10.2015. | News

Croatia's public debt down q-o-q for first time since 2012Croatia's public debt at the end of the second quarter of 2015 reached HRK 283.5 billion or 85.7 percent of GDP, down 2 percentage points from the previous quarter, the European Union statistical office Eurostat said in a report on Friday. 23.10.2015. | News

Unemployment rate in September at 16.2 pctThe registered unemployment rate in Croatia was at 16.2% in September, up 0.3 percentage points from August, the national statistical office said Friday. 23.10.2015. | News

Milanovic says he and Cerar spoke 50 times in past 8 weeksCroatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic commented on Friday on Slovenian PM Miro Cerar's accusation that Croatia was behaving in a non-European fashion in the migrant crisis and that there was no communication about the migrants between the two countries, saying they spoke 50 times over the past eight weeks, "always with this situation before our eyes and the possibility of something like this happening." 23.10.2015. | News

Croatian and Serbian ministers agree mechanism for solving migrant crisis at borderThe Croatian and Serbian Ministers of the Interior, Ranko Ostojic and Nebojsa Stefanovic respectively, who met at the Bajakovo border crossing on Friday, agreed short- and long-term mechanism for solving the refugee crisis at the border 23.10.2015. | News

Croatian FM, diplomats visit future refugee camp in Slavonski BrodForeign Minister Vesna Pusic and representatives of 35 diplomatic offices in Croatia on Wednesday visited a temporary transit refugee camp being built in Slavonski Brod in eastern Croatia. 23.10.2015. | News

Govt. to request intl. assistance in organising reception of migrantsThe Croatian government adopted a decision on Thursday on requesting international assistance in organising the reception of migrants, 217,538 of whom entered Croatia since September 16. 23.10.2015. | News

Binding bids for Muzil development project to be invited in FebThe government on Thursday decided to launch proceedings for the expression of interest in the Muzil development project in Pula, with Tourism Minister Darko Lorencin saying he expected binding bids to be invited in February. 22.10.2015. | News | Tourism

Pusic says Croatia wants agreement on refugeesCroatia wants an agreement on refugees with Slovenia but one cannot be reached if 7,000 or 8,000 people enter Croatia and 2,500 Slovenia, Foreign Minister Vesna Pusic said on Thursday. 22.10.2015. | News | EU Affairs

Croatian army won't be sent to border, says defence ministerDefence Minister Ante Kotromanovic said on Wednesday that for now Croatia had no need to send troops to the border like Slovenia did, and that he called on "the usual alarmists to cool it" because refugees had not stolen even an egg in Croatia. 21.10.2015. | News | Govori i izjave