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EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Crisis Management to visit Croatia 16.04.2015. | Announcements

Milanovic tells MPs deficit-cutting measures won't be an unpleasant surprisePrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said in parliament on Wednesday that in a few days' time the government would submit to parliament measures designed to reduce the budget deficit, which it is required to send to the European Commission by April 21, adding that the MPs would "most definitely not be unpleasantly surprised by those measures". 16.04.2015. | News

Grcic announces "correction" of excise duties in bid to make savingsAdditional budgetary savings that should amount to 0.4% of Gross Domestic Product, that is to HRK 1.3 billion, as requested by Pierre Moscovici on Tuesday, will be achieved through "correction of some excise duties" and through the reduction of certain material expenses, said Grcic 16.04.2015. | News | Economy

Minister Mrsic: In the first quarter of the year 10,500 young people had been hired for indefinite periods"If we continue at this pace, by the end of the year between 30,000 and 40,000 young people will be hired for indefinite periods of time and will stay in Croatia," Mrsic said during Question Time in Parliament on Wednesday  16.04.2015. | News | Labour and Pensions

Milanovic: I won't let INA become shopping mall for foreign fuelPrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Wednesday that Croatia needed to preserve its oil refining capacity, stressing that he would not allow the national oil company INA to become "a shopping mall for the sale of imported sweets and foreign fuel." 16.04.2015. | News

Milanovic and Plevneliev: Croatia-Bulgaria relations are very goodRelations between Croatia and Bulgaria are very good, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic and Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev said during their meeting in Zagreb on Tuesday 15.04.2015. | News | Press releases

Commissioner sees talks with Croatian ministers as positiveEuropean Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici on Tuesday positively assessed his talks with Croatian ministers Branko Grcic and Boris Lalovac, adding that some more work needed to be done by next week, including additional fiscal efforts in the amount of 0.4% of GDP. 15.04.2015. | News

Croatian FM visits Sarajevo ahead of EU ministerial meeting on BiHCroatia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Vesna Pusic announced in Sarajevo on Wednesday further support for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) on its path to EU membership, encouraging its authorities to implement necessary reforms. 15.04.2015. | News | Foreign policy

Croatian FM to visit Bosnia on Wednesday 14.04.2015. | Announcements

Croatia again among EU countries with highest jump in industrial productionCroatia once again showed a strong jump in industrial production in February, with the highest increases in the EU being registered in Ireland, Lithuania, Croatia and Greece, following a sharp decline in the month before, the Eurostat statistical office reported on Tuesday. 14.04.2015. | News