Representatives of Ukrainian civil organisations said in Zagreb that they urgently needed international support to put more pressure on the authorities to document the serious human rights violations there. The delegation is on a week-long visit to Croatia, at the invitation on Croatia’s Documenta Centre for Dealing with the Past, attending meetings and lectures on…
Month: May 2015
Scandalous: Serbia rehabilitates WWII Chetnik leader Draza Mihailovic
The Belgrade High Court upheld a motion to rehabilitate WWII Chetnik leader and war criminal Dragoljub Draza Mihailovic. The Croatian government on Thursday assessed that the Serbian High Court’s decision to rehabilitate WWII war criminal and Chetnik leader Dragoljub Draza Mihailovic is a wrong and unacceptable attempt at revising history, adding that the Chetnik movement…
NGO opposes selling motorways to private capital
Representative of a civil initiative that opposes the sale of Croatian motorways, on Thursday opposed the government-sponsored Plan B regarding the monetisation of the debt of the motorways’ operators, namely the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of the HAC-ONC toll and maintenance company’s shares to citizens and pension funds, saying they do not want the motorways…
Gov’t to replace privacy information agency head
During the closed section of the government session, the government forwarded a decision to parliamentary procedure to replace the director of the Agency for the Protection of Personal Data, Ante Rajkovac and his deputy Dubravka Dolenc. The Agency has established that publication of certain data from the declarations of assets of office-holders on the committee’s…
Activists set up Trojan horse against TTIP in Zagreb’s main square
Non-profit civic associations set up an eight-metre-high Trojan horse in Zagreb’s main square on Wednesday symbolising the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union and the United States, urging citizens to sign a petition against the TTIP. Activists carried banners mentioning chlorinated chicken, toxic chemicals, GMO, hormone beef, privatisation and corrupt courts.…
Conflict of Interest Committee ordered to remove declarations of assets from website
The chairwoman of the parliamentary Conflict of Interest Committee, Dalia Oreskovic, said at a news conference that the committee would remove declarations of assets of office-holders from the committee’s website later on Monday, following an executive order by the Croatian Personal Data Protection Agency, however, the committee would also appeal the order before the Administrative…