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Prime Minister says he visited Belgrade as government has to break down wallsPrime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Thursday once again explained why he visited Serbia yesterday, saying it was the government's job "to break down walls, regardless of who put them up."

17.01.2013. | News

Government moves to integrate optical infrastructureThe government decided on Thursday to integrate the optical infrastructure that is now scattered in seven state-owned companies into a new generation optical network that would bring broadband Internet access to all areas of Croatia.

17.01.2013. | News

Croatian, Serbian premiers meet in bid to thaw relationsThe visiting Croatian Prime Minister, Zoran Milanovic, and his host, Serbian Prime Minister, Ivica Dacic, held their first working meeting in Belgrade on Wednesday to discuss outstanding issues in their bilateral relations including refugee returns, tenancy rights, the prosecution of war crimes, the border demarcation and the genocide lawsuits the two countries filed against each other before the International Court of Justice as well as economic cooperation and European integration processes.

16.01.2013. | News

Government proposes lower housing saving incentivesThe government on Thursday adopted draft amendments to the Housing Savings Act, reducing government incentives from 15 per cent to 10 per cent.
  10.01.2013. | News

Government proposes mining billAt its session on Thursday the government sent to fast-track parliamentary procedure a mining bill aimed at enhancing control of the quantity of raw minerals exploited and the relevant exploitation fees.

10.01.2013. | News

Government to discourage polluter cars with higher taxesThe government on Thursday adopted a special motor vehicle tax bill which should, as of 1 July, discourage the purchase of vehicles with high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions or the import of older vehicles and stimulate the purchase of good quality new vehicles with low CO2 emissions.

10.01.2013. | News

Prime Minister Milanovic: Salaries for several office-holders were raised on my initiativePrime Minister Zoran Milanovic said on Thursday that last week's increase of salary scales for heads of several government agencies, which has provoked a public outcry, was done at his initiative because public-sector executives who cannot receive bonuses should be properly rewarded for their work.

10.01.2013. | News

Infrastructure minister announces plan for optical networking of 75% of CroatiaTransport and Infrastructure Minister Sinisa Hajdas Doncic said on Thursday that Croatian public companies had the potential to cover 75% of Croatia with the primary optical network and announced steps to this effect until the end of this year.

09.01.2013. | News

'Clean Start' shows former govt. left behind disastrous state of affairsThe "Clean Start" project, an analysis of the situation in 22 government bodies and state companies on 1 January 2012, indicates a catastrophic state of affairs with huge dubiosities and no signs of reform or restructuring, was said on Monday at a presentation of the project.

07.01.2013. | News

Finance Minister: Government to help salvage 1472 companies in pre-bankruptcy settlementsBy 2 January the Ministry of Finance received a total of 1,472 pre-bankruptcy settlement applications from ailing companies that owe more than HRK 20 billion and employ nearly 16,000 workers, Finance Minister Slavko Linic said on Thursday at the first cabinet meeting in 2013.

04.01.2013. | News