At the beginning of the new year, If we look back to the past, we can say that our Croatian politicians steal the whole year. nstead of growth of GDP and exports, the main stars were Plenković on arrival, Karamarko and Milanović on departure passer Orešković and established Petrov. Zdravko Marić is present in two mandates, and the shortest had Mile Crnoja resigning after only six days. On the political scene have appeared also some other “stars” such as former Culture Minister Zlatko Hasanbegović, who with his point of view that Croatia did not win in the Second World War returned the clock for several decades. Tomislav Panenić we’ll remember by affair styropor. Former Prime Minister Orešković, who struggled with the Croatian language and the most part of his mandate spent improvising his Premier function, was no more convincing than his colleagues.
Short mandate was marked by robbery at the seat of MUP in Heinzelova Street in Zagreb, and at the end the entire government adjudicated a woman, Ana Karamarko, due to her business relations with Jozo Petrović, MOL lobbyist, Karamarko resigned taking with him the entire government.
Andrej Plenković has so far presented only tax reform and budget, and it is hard to believe that it will later be more emphatic. The new investment was not too much and Employment department counts more than 200 000 unemployed.
The Croatian people cheered up discounted and promotional prices at retail, and they were spending more and contributed to GDP growth. Low prices are the result of falling oil prices and the Russian embargo, because of that large quantities of goods are sold at lower prices in the EU. Despite the fact, the largest income on the market continues to have Ivica Todorić and his Agrokor / Konzum. With the acquisition of Mercator, he set the leading position in the region, and now he plans to do in a virtual retail trade over the Internet shop Abracadabra.
Europe’s largest distributor became Orbico, that in Poland spent two acquisitions worth hundred million euros. Just for information, on that market now achieve about 700 million euros. On the overseas market and even up to Australia, expands also Mlinar, and its owner Mate Škoje announces the substitution in Saudi Arabia. Last year he went to Germany where plans to open even 150 points of sale, and develop a sales network in neighboring Slovenia and Hungary. It should be mentioned also producer of cleaning products Meteor from Đakovo that bought Labud and Badel and plans to connect Badel 1862 and become an important player in the beverage industry. Podravka has acquired Žito from Slovenia, while Emil Tedeschi does not hide the desire to take over Podravka.
Regarding summer season 2016., the results are more than good. This results encouraged new multimillion investments, especially in accommodation capacities (Valamar, Adris, D-Resort in Šibenik and Hyatt in Zadar).
We can conclude that in Croatia is always exciting, and considering that next year we again go to the polls, new faces on the political scene will surely bring new excitement.
