Plenkovic Andrej

Plenkovic: Reviving European prospect for S-E Europe will be Croatian presidency's big legacyRaising the topic of enlargement to Southeast European countries to the highest level in the EU and changing the atmosphere about it will a big, positive political legacy of the Croatian presidency of the Council of the EU, Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in Brussels on Sunday. 16.02.2020. | News

PM meets former inmates of Serb-run concentration camps, pledges legal supportPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic met with representatives of former prisoners of Serb-run concentration camps on Tuesday and agreed to establish a special commission that would provide legal and professional aid to former camp inmates. 11.02.2020. | News

Today we recall everything good that the Blessed Cardinal Stepinac did for the Croatian people and the Catholic ChurchThe 60th anniversary of the death of the Blessed Alojzije Stepinac was commemorated with a Mass and a formal meeting of the municipal council in his native town of Krasic on Monday. 10.02.2020. | News

Plenkovic says will do everything so Croatia gets appropriate cohesion fundsPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Saturday he would do everything so that in the European Union's next seven-year budget Croatia was given appropriate cohesion funds, which he added were the driver of development and investment. 08.02.2020. | News

Ministry's response to coronavirus adequate and quickThere is no case of coronavirus detected in Croatia and the Health Ministry and the government acted quickly and adequately when the epidemic emerged in the world and there is no need for panic, Health Minister Vili Beros said during the cabinet meeting on Thursday. 07.02.2020. | News

PM says gov't strongly supported Rijeka as European Capital of Culture projectPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Thursday congratulated Rijeka on a recent ceremony inaugurating the city as the European Capital of Culture, saying that over the past few years the government had strongly supported the project and there was therefore no room for speculation that the government had any reservations about that. 07.02.2020. | News

PM Plenkovic again invites Pope Francis to visit CroatiaPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Thursday invited Pope Francis to visit Croatia, expressing hope the visit would happen at the right time even though the pope usually visits smaller European countries without a Catholic majority, and as for the canonization of Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, the pope's key message was "patience". 06.02.2020. | News

"If I forget you... The Holocaust in Croatia 1941-1945/Final destination Auschwitz" exhibition opensPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic on Wednesday opened an exhibition on the suffering of Jews in WWII in the French Pavilion of the Zagreb Student Centre (SC), the building in front of which Jews were rounded up to be deported in railway wagons to death camps during the Second World War. 05.02.2020. | News

Croatian officials address int'l conference on promoting interreligious dialoguePrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Tuesday at the conference Human Fraternity As the Foundation of Peace and Security in the World that Croatia's model of Church and state relations had enabled a consensus on respecting the freedom of conscience and religion, and dialogue and cooperation regardless of religious affiliation. 04.02.2020. | News

Plenkovic: Croatia faced with crucial decade for EU membershipPrime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Tuesday that Croatia is faced with a crucial decade for its membership of the European Union because only after the country absorbs funds from the second financial perspective will it be able to draw the line and say how much it has advanced as a member. 04.02.2020. | News