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Croatia adopted the euro as its currency on 1 January 2023, becoming the 20th member state of the eurozone.A fixed conversion rate was set at €1 = kn 7.5345 [1]. Croatia's previous currency, the kuna (Croatian for marten), used the euro (and prior to that one of the euro's major predecessors, the German mark or Deutsche Mark) as its main reference since its creation in 1994, and a long-held ...
The Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP) approved its 2024 European Parliament list on 25 March, together with Rivers of Justice coalition lists for the 2024 Croatian parliamentary election. Incumbent MEP Biljana Borzan is leading the list that, in addition to SDP members, includes coalition partners Dalija Orešković ( DO i SIP ) and ...
After the separate ministries of Foreign Affairs and European Integration were merged in 2005 Grabar-Kitarović was nominated to become minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration. She was confirmed by the Parliament and sworn in on 17 February 2005. [21] Her main task as foreign minister was to guide Croatia into the European Union ...
European Parliament elections were held in Croatia for the first time on 14 April 2013 to elect twelve Members of the European Parliament. [1] The members served the remainder of the Parliament's 2009–2014 term after Croatia entered the European Union on 1 July 2013.
The enlargement of the eurozone is an ongoing process within the European Union (EU).All member states of the European Union, except Denmark which negotiated an opt-out from the provisions, are obliged to adopt the euro as their sole currency once they meet the criteria, which include: complying with the debt and deficit criteria outlined by the Stability and Growth Pact, keeping inflation and ...
Franjo Tuđman, first democratically elected and first president of modern independent Republic of Croatia. The independence of Croatia was a process started with the changes in the political system and the constitutional changes in 1990 that transformed the Socialist Republic of Croatia into the Republic of Croatia, which in turn proclaimed the Christmas Constitution, and held the 1991 ...
The attack marked the most serious threat to the life of a European leader in decades. More recently, former Japanese leader Shinzo Abe was assassinated at a campaign event in July 2022.
[6] [7] Croatia declared independence from Yugoslavia on 8 October 1991, which led to the breakup of Yugoslavia. Croatia's status as a country was internationally recognised by the United Nations in 1992. [8] [9] Under its 1990 constitution, Croatia operated a semi-presidential system until 2000 when it switched to a parliamentary system. [10]