Croatian government

Sustainable Growth of Croatia, ORaH launched its campaign on Sunday under the banner "Say NO to Oil in the Adriatic, Say YES to sustainable growth", hoping to prevent the start of oil and gas exploration and exploitation in the Adriatic Sea, which it considers environmentally risky.

BELGRADE - Serbian Radical Party (SRS) leader Vojislav Seselj, who is on a temporary release from custody of The Hague Tribunal, Thursday filed a complaint over Serge Brammertz abusing his powers and demanded he be removed from his position as chief prosecutor of the tribunal.

The Croatian government announced the tax hikes on Thursday in a bid to halt the growing state budget deficit - a move that it said would raise an extra 79.2 million euro annually.

The European Commission has told Croatia to merge local government units on the Finnish model - and offer financial benefits to all counties, municipalities, towns that agree to pool their resources.

Finland, a country with 5.1 million inhabitants, underwent a similar process in 2005, cutting the number of municipalities from 444 to 320, a reduction of 28 per cent.

Croatian president criticizes decision to recall ambassador

ZAGREB -- Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic has said that the withdrawal of Croatia's ambassador from Belgrade was "a hasty decision."

BRATISLAVA - Serbia will not recall its ambassador from Croatia nor send any negative signal to Croatia, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said late Wednesday.

"I think that Serbia and Croatia need to cooperate far better," Vucic told Radio-Television of Serbia in Bratislava.

PM: Serbia will not recall ambassador from Croatia

BRATISLAVA -- Serbia will not recall its ambassador from Croatia nor send any negative signal to Croatia, Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said late on Wednesday.

"I think that Serbia and Croatia need to cooperate far better," Vucic told Radio-Television of Serbia in Bratislava, Slovakia.

A Croatian NGO set up to lobby for the rights of people with loans in Swiss francs on Monday announced street protests in April while calling for the resignation of the national bank chief.

The Association Franak said that the governor of Croatian national bank, HNB, Boris Vujcic, should step down, Ivan Kontrec, from the Association, told a press conference.

Zlatar Violic has resigned in a formal letter sent to Prime Minister Zoran Milanovic on Wednesday. The Croatian government will formally end her mandate during the course of the day.

Croatia plans to raise cash by selling an additional billion euro of state bonds.

The economy ministry has commissioned four top banks - Barclays, Erste Group, JPMorgan and UniCredit - to arrange the issue of this new edition of euro bonds.

The Minister of Economy, Boris Lalovac, first announced this new edition of euro state bonds back in December.