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Quintessentially Expands Into Southeast Europe [May 16, 2012] Quintessentially, the world?s leading luxury lifestyle group, is pleased to announce that their services will be available to a new corner of the globe - Southeastern Europe. Headquartered in Zagreb, Croatia, Quintessentially Adriatic will offer the region unbeatable global lifestyle management services. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Monarch Airlines Launch New Flights to Croatia and Crete [May 02, 2012] LONDON, May 2, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Leading scheduled leisure airline, Monarch, will launch new routes to 'The Pearl of the Adriatic', Dubrovnik, in Croatia and Heraklion in Crete. The flights will operate ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Adriatic Luxury Hotels Announces Its New Organizational Structure [Mar 14, 2012] DUBROVNIK, Croatia, March 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --The Adriatic Luxury Hotels group announced the details of the completed process of creating the largest tourist company in the luxury hotel industry in ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Tim Forrest, Food Marketing and Distribution Consultant, Will Travel to Croatia to Speak to the Institute for Adriatic ... [Mar 06, 2012] International Food Consultant, Tim Forrest, will fly from Jacksonville, Florida to Split, Croatia to speak March 8th to the Agriculture Ministry during the Produce Production, Postharvest, and Marketing Extension Symposium sponsored by the Institute for Adriatic Crops. Participants will include farm advisors, along with agribusiness representatives, and growers in the Dalmatian region.St. ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Croatia votes to join EU in 2013, despite crisis [Jan 27, 2012] ZAGREB (Reuters) - Croatia voted on Sunday to join the European Union next year, shrugging off concerns over the economic turmoil in the bloc and fears that membership will compromise its hard-won sovereignty. Provided all 27 member states ratify its accession, the Adriatic state will enter the EU on July 1, 2013, more than two decades after breaking away from socialist Yugoslavia and fighting a ... [via YahooNews] More >>

New Design on Croatia's Coast [Oct 23, 2011] THE coastal town of Rovinj, on the undulating Istrian peninsula of Croatia, is no stranger to tourism, in large part thanks to its lush natural surroundings. Its fir-forested campgrounds are packed with R.V.'s bearing Austrian and German plates. Its rocky coves are claimed by staycationing Croatians slipping in and out of the cerulean Adriatic. [via YahooNews] More >>

Croatian island of Vis remembers World War Two role [May 23, 2011] Croatia has marked the final visit of British Second World War veterans to the only island in the Adriatic that withstood Hitler's onslaught, and provided a base for attacks on Nazi-dominated Yugoslavia. [via YahooNews] More >>

Corruption and red tape snag Croatia's EU hopes [Apr 28, 2011] ZAGREB (Reuters) - Five years ago, foreign and local investors put up a billion euros to create an upmarket sports and tourism resort in Croatia, overlooking the scenic Adriatic town of Dubrovnik. [via YahooNews] More >>

Dubrovnik, Croatia: cultural city guide [Apr 19, 2011] Nick Harrison offers an essential cultural guide to the city that more than lives up to its 'Pearl of the Adriatic' sobriquet. [via YahooNews] More >>

Croatian Group Seeks Investors for $86 Million Solar Projects [Apr 07, 2011] Adriatic Solarni Projekti , a group of 10 Croatian companies, is seeking investors for three solar power projects in Croatia with a combined capacity of 16.8 megawatts and an estimated value of 60 million euros ($85.7 million). [via YahooNews] More >>

ICTSI awarded 30-year port concession in Croatia [Mar 11, 2011] VIENNA, Austria - Philippines' International Container Terminal Services Inc. (ICTSI) was awarded the contract to develop and operate the Adriatic Gateway Container Terminal (AGCT) in Croatia?s Port of Rijeka, the Philippine Embassy in Vienna reported. [via YahooNews] More >>

Croatia, TAP pipeline sign MOU [Feb 25, 2011] BAAR, Switzerland, Feb. 25 (UPI) -- The Trans-Adriatic gas pipeline consortium said Friday it signed a memorandum with a Croatian pipeline operator to develop southern European markets. [via YahooNews] More >>