Today, in Croatia and around the world, everything is sold in the internet wilderness: clicks on the page, tracking visits, online advertising, playing collectively or individually, selling content, information, space, resources… Although it seems that earning money on the web is very easy, the same rules apply there as in all other professions for most people.
Lider’s journalism workshop has prepared a plethora of current economic stories and has taken a step further by investigating details that you would certainly like to know.
The government claims that unifying public procurement will save one percent of costs and reduce corruption. Critics are convinced that larger amounts will be an additional lure for large ‘entrepreneurs’ to fight even more unscrupulously for business. When over 35 billion kuna is turned over in business annually, no one sensible asks why everyone wants to dip as many fingers as possible into such a business. It turns out that public procurement is a godsend.
On the margins of last year’s Economists’ Consultation in Opatija, Prime Minister Ivo Sanader thought of including independent economists in designing the government’s measures for exiting the crisis. After a year, during which the achievements of that Economic Council (which is being dissolved!) cannot be counted on one hand, the problem is not whether the advisory trio has solutions, but whether the Prime Minister has the political strength for reforms. If party interests overpower the advisory school of common sense, this could be the beginning of the end for Jadranka Kosor. More in the story by Bojana Božanić and Gordana Gelenčer ‘Škegro, Švaljek, and Lovrinčević under HDZ control.’
In this week’s topic, we reveal the latest ways to use the internet in business. Today, in Croatia and around the world, everything is sold in the internet wilderness: clicks on the page, tracking visits, online advertising, playing collectively or individually, selling content, information, space, resources… Although it seems that earning money on the web is very easy, the same rules apply there as in all other professions – success is only achieved with a lot of work and luck, especially money, as it is a long road from the beginning to profit.
Media lawyer stars have shone in the spectacular arrests of managers from Podravka and the Croatian Privatization Fund in the actions of big and small ‘Maestro’. Despite the (self)promotion of lawyers in the listed and other proceedings conducted due to suspicion of economic crime, there are not (many) criminal lawyers in Croatia who know how to read balance sheets, financial reports, or are specialized in representing suspected or accused entrepreneurs for criminal acts in commercial and financial law. Mostly, these are all criminal lawyers who are ‘generalists’, good connoisseurs of procedural law, especially important in the early days of an investigation in a criminal proceeding conducted due to economic crime. These criminal lawyers know exactly which doors to knock on when a permit is needed, and later when the process develops, they will hire consultants, often colleagues who deal with corporate law. Who do suspected businessmen first call for help is revealed to us by Ivica Grčar.
It is only a matter of time before the ‘click’ happens in the minds of creditors and when the lawsuit against board members expands when the creditor fails to collect from the company. Because, according to the law, they are responsible for the business and must prove that the damage or debt is not their fault. More in the article by our advisor Prof. Dr. Hrvoje Kačer ‘A Creditor Can Block the Private Property of Board Members’.
