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Gov't adopts programme to improve energy efficiency of family housesThe government on Thursday adopted a decision on launching a programme to improve the energy efficiency of family houses for the 2014-2020 period, with a detailed plan for the period from 2014 to 2016.
  27.03.2014. | News

Govt. adopts decisions on tender for oil, gas exploration in AdriaticThe government on Thursday adopted three decisions enabling a public bidding for permits to explore and exploit hydrocarbons in the Adriatic Sea, for which a tender will be issued on April 2.

27.03.2014. | News

PM says govt. not rescinding youth employment incentivesPrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Thursday that the government was not rescinding youth employment incentives from the active employment policy but that the funds for that would be drawn from the European youth employment programme called the Youth Guarantee.
  27.03.2014. | News

Deputy PM satisfied with pace of reformsThe plan for fiscal consolidation reform measures for the 2014-2016 period is proceeding as expected within the defined deadlines, Deputy Prime Minister and Social Policy and Youth Minister Milanka Opacic said on Monday.
  24.03.2014. | News

Milanovic says Russia's conduct worse than unacceptableWhat Russia has done in Ukraine is worse than unacceptable and the EU's response to its conduct is good, Croatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic said after an EU summit in Brussels on Friday.

21.03.2014. | News

Milanovic, Rehn discuss Croatia's deficitCroatian Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic met with EU Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs Olli Rehn in Brussels on Thursday for talks on the Excessive Deficit Procedure which Croatia entered earlier this year.

20.03.2014. | News

PM says visit to Australia, New Zealand was politically complicatedPrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Wednesday he had the duty to go to Australia and New Zealand, although the two-week official visit was "politically complicated" because of the unacceptable iconography used by some of the local Croatian associations.

19.03.2014. | News

PM says budget revision cuts maximum possiblePrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Wednesday the cuts the government was proposing in this year's budget revision were the maximum possible in relation to the European Commission's demands and recommendations as part of the Excessive Deficit Procedure, adding that bigger cuts would prevent the possibility of growth and badly impact the social situation in Croatia.

19.03.2014. | News

Government: Number of members of election commissions won't be reducedThe government on Wednesday adopted an amendment to the law regulating the election of Croatian members of the European Parliament and recommendations by the parliamentary opposition and some of the ruling parties not to reduce the number of members of election commissions.
  19.03.2014. | News

Government wants better transparency of public fundingThe government sent to parliament from its session on Wednesday amendments to the law on a transparent flow of public funds, obliging all public entrepreneurs to keep separate accounts, whether they received public funding or not.

19.03.2014. | News