Today in Croatia

We announce the most important events in Croatia for Monday, April 10.

ZAGREB – The session of the Government of the Republic of Croatia will propose an extraordinary commissioner, in accordance with the provisions of the Law on the Procedure of Extraordinary Administration in Companies of Systemic Importance for the Republic of Croatia (8:30 AM, St. Mark’s Square 2). After the Commercial Court in Zagreb informed the Government and the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts about the request of the Agrokor Group to initiate extraordinary administration proceedings over the mentioned debtor and all its dependent and affiliated companies, the Government will, at the proposal of the Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Crafts, make a decision on the proposal for the appointment of an extraordinary commissioner and submit such a decision to the court without delay.

ZAGREB – The sessions of the Presidency and the National Council of the HDZ (5 PM, HDZ Headquarters, Square of Victims of Fascism 4).

ZAGREB – Leaders of local self-government units from the island of Krk will visit the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Energy regarding the remediation of the industrial facility of the former DINA Petrokemija d.d., and the actions of the relevant minister Slaven Dobrović on this matter (10 AM, Radnička cesta 80). The mayor of Omišalj, Mirela Ahmetović, emphasizes in her media invitation that they requested a decision on the remediation of this industrial facility in a letter sent to the minister on February 23, and actions in accordance with that decision. She reminds that DINA Petrokemija was removed from the court register on September 1, thus terminating its responsibility for the remaining quantities of hazardous waste still located at the site of this industrial facility. According to the law on sustainable waste management, if the polluter has not carried out the remediation, the state is obliged to do so, and the Ministry was, emphasizes Ahmetović, called upon to urgently execute the remediation in 2015 by the DORH.

ZAGREB – A session of the Commission for drafting the Proposal of the National Security Strategy will be held at the Croatian Military Academy “Dr. Franjo Tuđman”, where the second draft of the Proposal of the National Security Strategy will be presented (1 PM, Ilica 256b). Photography and filming are scheduled for the beginning of the session, and statements for the media are planned after the session ends around 2:15 PM.

ZAGREB – A press conference where the candidate for the mayor of Zagreb, Anka Mrak-Taritaš, and Diana Topčić-Rosenberg will present the social policy program in Zagreb titled “Zagreb for the Community” (11 AM, Vlaška 65).

ZAGREB – The mayor of Zagreb, Milan Bandić, together with director Igor Filipčić, will open the Day Hospital for the treatment of internet, video game, and gambling addiction, as well as a therapeutic garden within the Psychiatric Hospital Sveti Ivan (12 PM, Psychiatric Hospital Sveti Ivan, Jankomir 11, hall Dr. Dražen Mirko Grmek).

ZAGREB – The Ministry of Science and Education, in cooperation with the International Society of Applied Biological Sciences (ISABS) and the Agency for Education and Training, will present competitions for high school students at a press conference as part of the 10th Congress of the International Society of Applied Biological Sciences (ISABS) (12 PM, multimedia hall of the Ministry of Science and Education, Donje Svetice 38). The conference will feature speeches by the president of ISABS, Dragan Primorac, the director of the Agency for Education and Training, Jadranka Žarković-Pečenković, and the Minister of Science and Education, Pavo Barišić. The competition will be presented, allowing high school students to submit works in the fields of human biology, chemistry, and genetics for the award – The ISABS Future Scientist Award, aimed at encouraging and directing students towards science, as well as enabling awarded students and teachers to meet leading world scientists during the ISABS congress. This year’s congress, The Tenth ISABS Conference on Forensic and Anthropologic Genetics and Mayo Clinic Lectures in Individual Medicine, will be held in Dubrovnik from June 19 to 24, and is one of the most significant global scientific events of the year, featuring leading world scientists, including five Nobel Prize winners.

ZAGREB – A round table of the project “Gelem, Gelem-World4Them” and “Roma Evening in Zagreb” will present the results of research conducted within the project on the perception of Roma students and the entire Roma community regarding education, as well as their experiences related to human rights violations due to their belonging to the Roma national minority; and responses to questions posed on the project’s website related to the issues of Roma in Croatia (4 PM, Art Kino Grič, Jurišićeva 6). The round table is organized by the Open Media Group from Zagreb in partnership with the Roma Association of Zagreb and Zagreb County, the Center for Cultural Activities from Zagreb, the Economic School Čakovec, and OŠ August Cesarec from Zagreb. An animated film “Imagination Connects People”, created in collaboration with students from OŠ August Cesarec from Zagreb, and a documentary film “You Can Do It”, created in collaboration with students from the Economic School Čakovec, filmed in the Roma settlement of Kuršanec, will be presented. The round table will feature the member of parliament for the Roma national minority, Veljko Kajtazi, assistant to the head of the department for promoting human rights, civil society, and national minorities, Elizabeta Knorr, Mila Tatović Ramljak from the Open Media Group, Ivana Kostić from the Center for Cultural Activities, the director of the documentary film “You Can Do It”, Radoslav Pažameta, and Klaudia Oršoš, a student from the Economic School Čakovec.