Croatia Public Holidays News and Updates

2021 (public news feed delayed by 30 days)

• Jun
• 20
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• Croatian June 25 Independence Day Not A Public Holiday

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has confirmed that the upcoming Independence Day holiday, on June 25, was a working memorial day replacing the Statehood Day public holiday that had been observed for almost 20 years.
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2020

• Dec
• 31
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• Croatia 2021 Public Holidays Announced

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Croatia for the calendar year 2021, taking into account, for the second year, the changes to the list of Croatian public holidays announced at the end of 2019.
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• Nov
• 17
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• Croatian Public Holidays November 18

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has confirmed the observance of Vukovar Remembrance Day, a new annual public holiday, on Wednesday, November 18, 2020.
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• May
• 14
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• Croatia To Add June or July 2020 Public Holiday

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Prime Minister of Croatia, Andrej Plenkovic, has announced that Croatia's Parliament would be dissolved on May 18, with a parliamentary election on June 21, June 28, July 5 or July 12, a date that will be a one-off non-working public holiday in Croatia ("After the cabinet meeting and the meeting of the parliamentary majority, I can inform the Croatian public that all components of the parliamentary majority have decided to propose to parliament to dissolve on Monday, May 18").
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• Jan
• 31
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• Croatia 2020 Public Holidays Announced

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Croatia for the calendar year 2020, once again unchanged in the number of holidays as compared to previous years.
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2019

• Nov
• 19
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• Croatian Public Holidays Amendments Official

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The president of Croatia, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, has signed into law the recently-voted Law on Holidays, Remembrances and Non-working Days in the Republic of Croatia ("Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima u Republici Hrvatskoj"), which makes controversial changes to the official list of public holidays in Croatia.
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• Nov
• 13
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• Croatian Public Holidays Amendments Bill Remains Unchanged

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - Earlier today, the Croatian government representative to Parliament, Darko Nekic, rejected all opposition parties' attempts to amend the bill to amend the Croatian law on public holidays, and shift the dates of the Independence Day and Statehood Day holidays of Croatia, accepting only 2 minor naming amendments, proposed by the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ).
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• Oct
• 10
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• Croatia Public Holidays Amendments Announced

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Croatian government has announced the details of its plans to amend the Croatian law on public holidays to declare a new Vukovar Remembrance Day national non-working public holiday in Croatia, and shift the dates of the Independence Day and Statehood Day holidays of Croatia.
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• Oct
• 7
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• Croatia Mulls Public Holidays Amendments

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Croatian government has announced that it plans to amend the Croatian law on public holidays to declare Vukovar Remembrance Day as a new national non-working public holiday in Croatia, to commemorate "all victims of the Homeland War".
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• Jan
• 4
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• Croatia 2019 Public Holidays Announced

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Croatia for the calendar year 2019, once again unchanged in the number of holidays as compared to previous years.
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2018

• Jan
• 5
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• Croatia 2018 Public Holidays Announced

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Croatia for the calendar year 2018, once again unchanged in the number of holidays as compared to previous years.
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2017

• Jan
• 9
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• Croatia 2017 Public Holidays Announced

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Croatia for the calendar year 2017, once again unchanged in the number of holidays as compared to previous years.
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2016

• Jan
• 15
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• Croatia 2016 Public Holidays Announced

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Croatia for the calendar year 2016, once again unchanged in the number of holidays as compared to previous years.
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2015

• Jan
• 11
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• Croatia 2015 Public Holidays Announced

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Croatia for the upcoming calendar year 2015, once again unchanged in the number of holidays as compared to previous years.
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2013

• Dec
• 30
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• Croatia 2014 Public Holidays Announced

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has released its annual list of official non-working public holidays in Croatia for the upcoming calendar year 2014, unchanged in the number of holidays as compared to previous years.
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2012

• Dec
• 31
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• Croatia 2013 Public Holidays Announced

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - The Government of Croatia has released the list of official non-working public holidays in Croatia for the upcoming calendar year 2013, unchanged in the number of holidays as compared to previous years.
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• Mar
• 6
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• Croatians Support Public Holidays Cut

  CRO Demoskop (Zagreb) - A recent poll by the Croatian polling institute CRO Demoskop shows that almost half of the people questioned supported the recent government's proposal to reduce the number of non-working public holidays in Croatia.
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• Feb
• 9
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• Croatian Public Holidays Cancellations Under Consideration

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - Following today's cabinet meeting, the Government of Croatia has announced that it was considering the elimination of 3 annual non-working public holidays.
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2011

• Oct
• 31
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• Croatian Electoral Public Holiday Ruled-Out

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - Croatian President, Ivo Josipovic, has finally decided to announce the date of the upcoming elections on a regular non-working day, more specifically, Sunday, December 4, 2011.
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• Jul
• 16
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• Croatian Public Holiday Possible December 5 or 6

  Government of the Republic of Croatia (Zagreb) - Croatian President, Ivo Josipovic, is pushing for the upcoming elections to be held on Monday or Tuesday, December 5 or 6, 2011, which would mean the declaration of a one-off non-working public holiday in Croatia on the chosen date.
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2010

• Feb
• 21
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• Croatia Sued To Drop August 5 Public Holiday

  Balkan Insight (The Hague) - Serbia has issued a counter-suit against Croatia in front of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), demanding, among other things, that Croatia remove the August 5, "Day of Victory and Homeland Gratitude and the Day of Croatian Defenders", from its list of public holidays.
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2007

• Sep
• 2
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• Croatia Declares September 3 Day Of National Mourning

  AFP - The government of Croatia proclaimed Monday, September 3, 2007, a day of national mourning, following the death, last night, of a seventh of the firemen that had recently battled the wildfire on the Adriatic island of Kornat.
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• Aug
• 5
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• Serbs Criticize Croatia Over August 5 National Public Holiday

  RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - This year, once again, Serb groups throughout the Balkan States have launched campaigns criticizing Croatia's observance of the August 5 public holiday.
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2002

• Jan
• 29
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• Croatia Restores Epiphany Public Holiday

  Croatian Radio (Zagreb) - The Croatian National Assembly has passed a law making Epiphany a public holiday again, beginning in 2003.
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2000

• Feb
• 2
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• Croatia One-Off Public Holiday On February 7

  Croatian Radio (Zagreb) - Following the election of a new government and of Zlatko Tomcic as new Assembly speaker and acting president, Monday, February 7, 2000, has been declared a one-off public holiday throughout Croatia.
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