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• A spatial analysis of Member States reveals different patterns among neighbouring economies, with countries such as Croatia, Italy, and Greece experiencing notable employment growth in 2024 and 2025, while Member States like Romania, Poland, and Lithuania anticipate real value added growth in 2025. JRC Publications Repository
• Several EU countries are expected to see their populations decline by more than 15% by 2050, including Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, and Romania. Frontiers
• Montenegro and Croatia declared war on Russia, and after days of hesitation due to their covertly pro-Russian right-wing governments, Italy and Greece joined as well, since the threat of their NATO bases becoming Russian targets as well was too evident. Future
• Croatia must timely recognise global trends and make decisions that will ensure energy stability and sustainability in the long term. World Nuclear News
• Morning temperatures in Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, Hungary, and Romania could hit -5 °C, posing a severe threat to blooming trees. Pogodnik
• Some of the European countries most exposed to tourism, particularly some of the Mediterranean countries such as Spain, Portugal and Croatia that have performed better last year and will continue to perform strongly in 2025. Oxford Economics
• LNG import capacity in the EU and the UK expanded by more than 40% between 2021 and 2024 and will continue to grow in 2025 once new and expanded regasification facilities in Croatia, Cyprus, and Italy come online. EIA - Energy Information Administration
• In the East, Latvia and Lithuania are expected to experience particularly severe overall population losses, while Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Greece, Poland and Croatia are projected to experience negative or near-zero net migration. Bruegel | The Brussels-based economic think tank
• Fully 900 troops from Hungary, Poland, Germany, Belgium, Austria, Ireland, Spain, France, Croatia, Lithuania, and Latvia will participate under a EUROCORPS command. DailyNewsHungary
• Nations like Bulgaria, Croatia, Malta, and Poland need significant improvement, as their plans do not include concrete pathways to 2050. SpringerLink
• Upcoming elections in several European Union member-states, including Germany, Romania and Croatia, are expected to delay India's plans to finalize the free trade agreement (FTA) with the 27-nation bloc. Mint
• The 5G-ADRIA project will focus on defining what 5G infrastructure is needed to support future traffic-related services that will be used along TEN-T transport corridors in Slovenia and Croatia. Shaping Europe's digital future
• Under current plans, Europe's LNG import capacity is expected to grow by 60% between 2021 and 2030, led by countries including Germany, the Netherlands, Turkey, Italy, France, Belgium, Greece, Finland, Poland and Croatia. The Guardian
• Cruise Croatia has partnered with the Radež ship yard in Korcula and made a 20% investment in the build process, allowing exclusive use of MV Aretis through 2025, 2026 and 2027. Northern Ireland Travel News
• Poland will be the frontrunner in terms of growth among the eastern EU member states, both in 2025 and next; it will be closely followed by Croatia (2025: 3.1%; 2026: 3%). Emerging Europe
• Following the introduction of the Swedish FDI regime in 2024 and Irish FDI regime in early 2025, there will be only three EU Member States without active FDI regimes: Greece, Cyprus and Croatia. Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison LLP
• The French shipping line will connect Izmir with Malta, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Cyprus, Lebanon, and Egypt, serving 18 ports in total. TrasportoEuropa
• The European Union's NextGenerationEU programme will increase eurozone GDP by 0.3-0.8% by 2026 and 0.2-0.6% by 2031, but Croatia, Greece, Italy and Spain are likely to see larger effects, new research from the European Central Bank finds. Central Banking
• Staying in Croatia, small ship line Cruise Croatia continues to grow, announcing this month that its fleet will be enhanced in Spring 2025 by the arrival of the MV Aretis, which will be able to accommodate up to 36 guests. TravelPulse
• Some members of the EU will hold national elections: Austria, Croatia, Finland, Lithuania, Portugal, Romania, Belgium and Slovakia. Coface
• Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Sweden have reported Salmonella Strathcona sequence type 2559 infections. Food Safety News
• LNG terminals in Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Italy, Croatia and Greece, new floating storage regasification units in Germany and Italy and the potential expansion of the capacity of the Turkstream pipeline that runs across the Black Sea from Russia to Turkey could replace the lost volume. Bruegel | The Brussels-based economic think tank

Last updated: 14 June 2025