Full Coverage: Croatia

28.07.2004 The prognosis based on the results of the results of The Internet Access Market in Croatia 2003-2008 study, conducted by the regional offices of IDC state that it is possible to expect 1,197,500 Internet users in Croatia by the end of 2004.

21.07.2004 In its reaction on the unofficial announcements that the Local and the Presidential Elections in Croatia could be held on the same day in December 2004, the GONG association commented that, based on the existing legislation, such a solution is impossible to apply.

16.07.2004 Djakovo, Croatia--The announced destruction of Pioneer genetically modified corn (patented under the PR23G13 name) started last Friday in the fields of the Agricultural Cooperative “Osatina” from Semeljac, near Djakovo.

16.07.2004 Minister of Health, Andrija Hebrang, confirmed in a statement for Jutarnji List daily and Croatian TV, that two patients that underwent surgery in September 2003 at the “Rebro” Clinical Centre in Zagreb, contracted HIV through polluted blood transfusion.

15.07.2004 The Croatian Journalists’ Association (HND) expressed its worries over the suspended prison sentence for Ljubica Letinic, Croatian Radio reporter. Letinic was sentenced on the slender and libel lawsuit by the Municipal Court in Split.

12.07.2004 Investigative Journalism, by Inoslav Besker, Orlanda Obad et al., the first systematic and complete work on the subject in Croatia, was presented in the facilities of the Croatian Journalists’ Association.

09.07.2004 Green Network from Karlovac announced today that they are requesting from local government permission to participate in decision making about sanitation of present waste dump on Ilovac and choosing new location for it.

08.07.2004 Yesterday, at Gradina, near Kozarska/Bosanska Dubica, the representatives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and the European Commission opened for traffic the repaired bridge over Una River, in the place where it runs into Sava River. The bridge was heavily damaged in the war and was closed for traffic for the past 12 years.

06.07.2004 Osijek Greens association estimates that the summer campaign for demolition of illegally constructed building, conducted by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Spatial Planning, has to spread to continental Croatia, too, especially in the protected areas in Slavonija and on the banks of Drava and Danube rivers.

02.07.2004 The RODA association (RODitelji u Akciji – Parents’ Action) expressed its surprise at the comments of the Members of Parliament from the ruling HDZ, during the debate in the Sabor, that the amount of maternity leave compensation for the first six months should not be delimited, having in mind that there are few women with high salaries, therefore, they don’t impact the birth-rates in Croatia in any significant fashion.