Croatia Soccer

Zagreb - Croatia's budget for 2010, which projects slight economic recovery, a 2.5-per-cent deficit and 3 per-cent inflation, drew fire from the opposition and economic experts alike Wednesday. Parliament adopted the budget that Prime Minister ...  

ZAGREB, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Croatian business optimism declined in November for the second month in a row, mostly due to expected declines in personal consumption and tourism in the next six months, a survey showed on Wednesday. The HLIPO index fell 9 ...  

Zagreb, Dec 1 (AFP) Croatian officials arrested two men as they tried to smuggle seven Afghans and one Pakistani into the country from Serbia, Croatian police said today. The two Slovak men, aged 38 and 50, were stopped in a van at the border post of ...  

SFA chief Gordon Smith last night laughed off claims that Croatia coach Slaven Bilic had been approached to take over from George Burley. The manager's agent, former Celt Rudi Vata, said he got a call from the SFA and had to tell them Bilic wasn't ...  

BRATISLAVA, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Slovakia and Croatia will keep working together to facilitate Croatia's entry to the European Union (EU), leaders of both countries agreed here on Tuesday. Croatian President Stjepan Mesic arrived in the Slovak capital ...  

Zagreb. Croatia has intensified talks with Russia to join the South Stream gas pipeline project, a new transport link for Russian gas to Europe, the economy ministry said on Monday. "Croatia is interested to join the South Stream pipeline and is now ...  

ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia took its anti-corruption campaign to schools yesterday as part of efforts to reduce widespread graft, a key condition of joining the European Union. The Justice Ministry launched the «Anti-Corruption Class» with a lecture and a ... ...  

Serge Brammertz is not satisfied with the investigations regarding Croatia's 1995 military onslaught against the country's Serb areas, reports say. Zagreb daily Jutarnji List wrote on Tuesday that the chief Hague prosecutor was unhappy about the probes into the whereabouts of the Operation Storm artillery logs.  

ZAGREB, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Following are the main news stories, press reports and events to watch which may affect Croatia's financial markets on Thursday. ZAGREB - Weekly cabinet meeting. ZAGREB - Parliament expected to start discussion on the 2010 ...  

ZAGREB (AFP) - A Slovenian national, wanted by Germany under suspicion of being linked to Europe's worst ever soccer betting scandal, is under arrest in Croatia, the HINA news agency reported yesterday. Dragan Mihelic is suspected by German prosecution au... ...  

ZAGREB, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Croatia's central bank abolished on Thursday a three-year old annual credit expansion limit for commercial banks in order to spur credit activity and growth in a recession year. 'The governor's decision has cancelled the ...  

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Croatian police said Tuesday they arrested a Slovenian man in connection with the investigation into match-fixing in European soccer. Police said Dragan Mihelic, 38, was stopped Monday as he was entering Croatia from neighbouring ...  

ZAGREB, Nov 20 (Reuters) - The Croatian parliament ratified a border arbitration agreement with Slovenia on Friday, hoping to lift a major obstacle for completing Croatia's European Union accession talks next year. EU member Slovenia, which had ...  

ZAGREB, Nov 19 (Reuters) - The Croatian parliament approved on Thursday Djuro Popijac as the new economy minister whose task will be to revive the staggering economy ahead of European Union accession, tentatively expected in 2012. Popijac, 50, was in ...  

ZAGREB, Croatia -- Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor announced on Friday (November 13th) that she is appointing Djuro Popijac as economy minister. Popijac, president of the Croatian Employers' Association, replaces Damir Polancec, who resigned at the end ...