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Croatia

What is happening there and why it matters.

So it makes sense

Croatia is a country most Slovaks and Czechs know from holidays — which shows in what gets written about it here: land prices, islands, hotels, but also what happens when hundreds of thousands of extra tourists live there for a few weeks a year. It has been in the euro area and in Schengen since 2023, so the drive to the sea needs neither a border stop nor a currency exchange. The summer of 2026 showed the other side too: extensive wildfires around Omiš with fatalities, cases of West Nile fever, and the crash of a small aircraft from Czechia.

Who governs: The prime minister is Andrej Plenković (HDZ), who has led the country for several terms. After the fires near Omiš he faced questions about why the SRUUK system sent residents no warning — and did not explain it. Croatia is also raising its profile in the Three Seas Initiative: it hosted the Dubrovnik summit in April 2026 together with Pellegrini and Polish president Nawrocki.
Who opposes: The government’s main political counterweight is not an opposition party but President Zoran Milanović. He runs his own foreign policy line and diverges openly from the cabinet — in March 2026 he cancelled a Western Balkans summit over remarks by Serbian president Vučić. To follow Croatian news you have to expect the head of state and the prime minister to say opposite things.
Next election: The next parliamentary election is expected in 2028.

Context verified 30. 8. 2026. We update it when the government changes or an election comes — the news below is live.

What Croatian media say about themselves

last 5. 10. at 11:03

Dalija Oreškovićová on the secret service SOA: "If I understood correctly, and I hope not..." — the unfinished sentence is her entire comment, that is, a form of reservation she does not want to state in full

N1 Croatia
A turnaround in the war crimes trial over Glina: first acquitted, now sentenced to twenty years — so the appeal ruling flipped the first-instance verdict by 180 degrees

Index.hr
The Ministerstvo poľnohospodárstva is under a hacker attack; employees were instructed to shut down all computers — "a panic report came in", Večernji describes; Vlajčić confirmed the situation for N1

N1 Croatia, Večernji list, Index.hr
Eight people indicted for violently disrupting the Days of Serbian Culture in Split, including the county HDZ chief — The incident at the Days of Serbian Culture in Split is thus going to court.

Večernji list, 24sata, HRT
USKOK and police dismantled an illegal cigarette factory in Matulji; Slovenians and Ukrainians were detained — The operation in a former restaurant produced cigarettes without control stamps for five months.

Index.hr, 24sata, Novi list
Signatures are being collected in Pula to recall mayor Grbin — The initiative claims the collection is not aimed against the SDP, but against the way the city is governed.

Index.hr, Večernji list
Former head of the agricultural chamber Grivič arrested for illegal hunting — After the arrest, the chamber claims the system of protection against damage caused by wild boar is ineffective.

N1 Croatia, 24sata, HRT
Inflation accelerated again; Ćorić announces a minimum wage increase and a budget rebalance — The government claims that without its measures inflation would be significantly higher; the opposition (Hajdaš Dončić) speaks of the failure of HDZ's economic policy.

HRT, Večernji list, Index.hr
Anušić: Croatia has a counter to Serbian missiles, the Chunmoo system; Vučić responds with "nazimania" — Prime Minister Plenković called Serbia's arms build-up "shopping mania"; Belehrad responded that Croatia has a problem with Nazism.

Novi list, Novi list, N1 Croatia
Five of seven tested residents of Gospić have elevated PFAS; the health ministry rejects nationwide testing — The ministry says an elevated value does not mean impaired health; Možemo demands a nationwide testing programme.

N1 Croatia, 24sata, 24sata

How the neighbours see it

mentions of the country in media of surrounding states

Freight trains from Croatia to Serbia are running through Bosnia again: the first one left Volinja for Zvornik

🇧🇦 Klix.ba
Montenegro: committees for the ship Jadran met for the first time in Zagreb — Zagreb is demanding from Podgorica not only the ship, but also other military property worth USD 2.7 billion (according to Croatian minister Grlić Radman).

🇲🇪 Vijesti, 🇲🇪 Vijesti
Serbian media: a Bajaga concert in Croatia was cancelled for "singing like a Chetnik" — The cancellation followed pressure from veterans; Serbian media present it as a campaign against Serbian culture.

🇷🇸 Danas, 🇷🇸 Kurir
Serbian media: Croatia is closely watching Serbia's arms buildup; Plenković speaks of "shopping mania" — According to Danas and the Hungarian 24.hu, Zagreb sees the modernization of the Serbian army as a reason for its own arms buildup.

🇷🇸 Danas, 🇭🇺 24.hu, 🇲🇪 Vijesti

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