The world's greatest car website Top Gear has reported that Aston Martin, the luxury British sports car manufacturer, have announced that the Croatian company Rimac Automobili will deliver the battery set for their model AM-RB 001.

Aston Martin has been developing the hyper car in cooperation with Red Bull Racing and according to a design of the legendary F1 racing car constructor Adrian Newey. AM-RB 001 should be the world's most extreme car ever seen on the roads with performance that will compete to those of F1 racing cars.

The British high-performance engine company Cosworth will deliver the engine for the AM-RB 001 model: a 6.5-litre, naturally aspirated V12. Aston Martin says it will be the ultimate road-legal internal combustion engine.

In addition, the car will use a seven-speed paddle shift gearbox designed and built by Ricardo, the British engineering and consultancy firm, who previously created the six-speed manual gearbox of the Ford GT, and is currently the supplier of McLaren’s 3.8-litre bi-turbo V8 engine.

The Croatian company Rimac Automobili will develop and deliver the lightweight battery system for the 001; apart from the conventional engine, this hybrid will use several electric engines.

Furthermore, the carbon fibre company Multimatic from Canada will manufacture chassis for the hyper car, whilst the race car braking system experts from Alcon will deliver the car brakes for Aston's maddest car ever.

It is interesting to note that after the Swedish car manufacturer Koenigsegg, Aston Martin is the second super sports car manufacturer who has used the knowledge and skills of Rimac Automobili.

According to a recent survey, almost 77 percent of respondents are willing to leave Croatia in a search of a new job and a brighter future.

More than half of respondents would leave the country in order to find work in their profession, whilst 43 percent of people would accept any job.

The survey carried out by the MojPosao portal encompassed eleven European countries (Croatia, Latvia, Hungary, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia) and included 35,000 respondents.

Furthermore, the survey showed that a great majority of respondents from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Serbia are more willing to accept any kind of job than respondents from other countries are.

In general, more men (81%) are willing to go abroad than women (73%), as are respondents of 25 years of age and younger. Almost 80 percent of young population are ready to leave Croatia, whilst 79 percent of population aged 25 to 34 would follow their path. Respondents older than 55 years (58%) are not willing to search for a job outside Croatia's borders.

The main incentive for relocation to 69 percent of Croatian respondents is a higher salary, whilst 38 percent would seek possibilities for better career development.

In addition, the survey also shows that the great majority of people in Croatia would go abroad for a period longer than one year; a fifth of respondents would leave the country for several months, whilst the rest of respondents would go abroad only for a few weeks' time.

Last year the portal MojPosao published more than 1,100 ads for jobs abroad, or 14 percent more ads compared to the previous year. Most ads were for jobs in Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia.

The most in-demand professions abroad are electricians, IT developers and electrical workers for jobs in the field of installation, maintenance and repairs, production, craft services and electrical engineering.

It had to happen, after the countless bare male behinds that have appeared on social media with Dubrovnik as a background now we have the first female one. This rather unusual new craze of baring backsides whilst travelling and then revealing them to the world via social media caught on last summer and from the signs are that this summer could see more cheeky photos this year.

This latest and first Dubrovnik female, photo soon went viral on Instagram and was published on the account of Flash The Abyss, who uses the tagline “A photographic journey dedicated to removing boundaries between woman and... whatever she chooses.” She has over 11,000 followers on Instagram and this “bottoms up” in Dubrovnik photo has almost 700 likes.

The official dates of the filming of the latest Hollywood blockbuster to use Dubrovnik as a location have been confirmed by the City of Dubrovnik. Filming of Robin Hood: Origins will begin on the 20th of February and last until the 6th of March and the city has warned that during these dates certain parts of the city will have special traffic regulations for both pedestrians and vehicles.

“During the whole of the filming as much as possible will be done to avoid disturbing the flow of all kinds of traffic, however we kindly ask the public for their patience,” read a statement from the City of Dubrovnik.

The main street through the centre of Dubrovnik (Stradun), the old harbour, St. Dominika Street, Pile Park, Pile gate, Kneza Hrvaša Street plus a few other locations will be used during the filming and both day time and night time filming is scheduled.

It's amazing what you can show in 16 seconds! Timelapse of Dubrovnik in the summer season has been uploaded couple of days ago by Youtube channel Wolfzaire and it's looks great. It's clear to see that it has been filmed in the late afternoon. It shows Stradun, St.Blaise Church, shiny stone and the crowd walking around and taking photos... Quite enchanting – and it brings that summer feel.

The EU Commission has decided to refer several members countries to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to implement EU rules on driving licences.

Croatia, the Netherlands, Portugal and Sweden are the EU member countries which will be referred to the EU Court of Justice for failing to comply with the EU Directive 2006/126/EC.
In October 2015, the EU Commission opened the misdemeanour proceedings and sent its reasoned opinion to these four members states in June 2016. However, the countries have still not fulfilled their obligations under the EU Directive, thus the Commision has decided to refer the cases to the Court.

The Commision has identified several omissions in the implementation of the Directive 2006/126/EC. For example, the Netherlands failed to implement the harmonised validity periods for licences; Portugal failed to ensure that one person holds only one licence, whilst Sweden failed to transpose the requirements on medical fitness, especially for drivers who are dependent on alcohol.

On the other hand, Croatia will be referred to the Court of Justice for failing to connect to the EU driving licences network RESPER, as required by the Directive 2006/126/EC.

RESPER helps the EU member countries cooperate with each other and ensure that driving licences are issued according with EU rules which therefore help to reduce the possibility of fraud, guarantee true freedom of movement for EU drivers and reinforce safety on roads throughout the European Union.

Dubrovnik-Neretva County Tourist Board is the part of Holiday World fair in Prague, that is held from today to February 19 at the Prague Exhibition Grounds – Holeslovice. The fair is organized for the 26th time.

The first two days of the fair are intended exclusively for professionals in the tourism industry, while the other two days are opened to the general public.

Dubrovnik – Neretva County Tourist Board shares a stand with Croatian Tourist Board, Plitvice Lakes National Park and Bi Village camp from Fazana.

Over 30 thousand visitors are expected at the fair as over 40 countries from all over the world will be presented.

In 2016 around 36 thousand tourists from Czech Republic have visited Dubrovnik-Neretva County, with almost 285 thousand overnight stays.

According to a recent line-up release, the sixth edition of the Dimensions Festival in Pula, Istria from the 30th of August to the 3rd of September this summer will surely attract more electronic music lovers than ever before.

One of the most popular underground electronic music festivals in Croatia and a nominee for the UK Festival Award for the Best Overseas Festival, this year will host the iconic Jamaican singer, songwriter, supermodel and actress Grace Jones who is to perform for the first time in Croatia at the opening of the Dimensions Festival.

Apart from the enigmatic icon of the music scene, a 200 year old Fort Punta Christo in Pula will also host some of the most popular names of electronic beats such as Moderat, Moses Boyd:SoloX, Yussef Kamaal, Jeff Mills, Nina Kraviz, Ata Kak, Theo Parrish, Floating Points, Levon Vincent and many others.

After moving to New York when she was thirteen, Jones started out as a model working for popular names from the fashion industry such as Yves St. Laurent, Claude Montana, and Kenzo Takada. She appeared regularly on the covers of Elle, Vogue and Stern magazines.
In the late 1970s, she made a record deal with Island Records and moved into dance, new wave and reggae music. She entered the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart with “Pull Up to the Bumper”, “I’ve Seen That Face Before”, “Private Life”, “Slave to the Rhythm” and “I’m Not Perfect”. Her most popular albums include Warm Leatherette (1980), Nightclubbing (1981), and Slave to the Rhythm (1985).

During her music career, she also appeared in some low-budget films in the US during the 1970s and early 1980s. With her role as Zula in the SF film Conan the Destroyer alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, she made her first notable appearance. She also starred in the James Bond movie A View to a Kill, Eddie Murphy’s film Boomerang and Wolf Girl. Jones was nominated for Saturn Awards for Best Supporting Actress for her work in these three films.

In December 2016, Billboard magazine ranked her as the 40th most successful dance artist of all times.