Female opposition MPs said on Thursday that they had collected signatures for an amendment to the Value Added Tax Act which proposes that VAT on sanitary pads and tampons, the so-called women’s tax, be reduced from 25 to 5%.
That would correct the injustice and necessary hygiene products would be available to all women, according to the opposition MPs.
Left-wing and liberal parties, as well as right-wing female MPs from the Bridge party and Homeland Movement, gave their signatures. However, MPs from the leading Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) did not sign.
“Recently, Finance Minister Zdravko Marić [HDZ], responding to my reply, said he was ready to consider that Croatia, like some other countries, have a 5% VAT rate on sanitary pads and tampons,” Anka Mrak Taritaš, MP of the Centre and GLAS party group, told a press conference in parliament.
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PRESIDENT OF HDZ
Čović sent a letter to the ambassadors, EU officials and the EPP: These are acts of aggravated theft
Local elections in the City of Mostar were held on December 20th and were hailed as a long-awaited and much-needed move E. T.
18.01.2021
PRESIDENT OF HDZ
Čović sent a letter to the ambassadors, EU officials and the EPP: These are acts of aggravated theft
Dragan Čović
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Today, the President of the Croatian National Assembly Dragan Čović sent a new letter to the addresses of the ambassadors to B&H, EU officials and EPP officials in order to inform them, according to the HDZ, about the events related to the local elections in the City of Mostar.
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ZAGREB, June 10 (Reuters) - Croatia expects to start talks with Hungarian energy group MOL on a possible buyback of shares in Croatian gas and oil company INA by the end of June, the country’s Energy and Environment Minister Tomislav Coric said.
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said in 2016 that the government would try to buy MOL’s almost 50% INA stake, after years of rows over its management and investment policies.
Zagreb, which controls close to 45% of INA, hired Lazard to advise it on the possibility of buying back the INA shares from MOL and the investment bank presented the government with its preliminary assessment of the costs on Wednesday.
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ZAGREB, Dec 21 (Hina) – Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said on Monday the government would adopt a national COVID-19 vaccination plan on Wednesday, adding that he was confident a large majority of people would get vaccinated and achieve “an immunological shield against this vicious disease.”
Speaking to the press ahead of a meeting of the presidency of his Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) party, Plenkovic said the national vaccination plan was drawn up by the Health Ministry based on input from the Croatian Institute of Public Health.
He said a public awareness campaign would be launched so that as many people as possible could get vaccinated over the next six months.