Croatia's National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Latest state of play

Croatia's national recovery and resilience plan (NRRP) is an ambitious outline of reforms and investment designed to mitigate the pandemic's socioeconomic fallout and to address the consequences of the two devastating earthquakes of 2020. Following the December 2023 amendment of the Croatian NRRP, to which a REPowerEU chapter was added, the plan's worth reached €10 040.7 million (or 18.5 % of national gross domestic product (GDP) in 2019). The amended plan comes with a grant allocation of €5 779.4 million and a loan allocation of €4 254.2 million (of which more than 62 % is for the REPowerEU chapter). The grant part includes the country's REPowerEU grant allocation of €269 million and the €7.2 million transfer from Croatia's share of the Brexit Adjustment Reserve. In June 2025, the Council approved the second revision of the plan; the subsequent request to amend the NRRP was sent to the European Commission in October 2025. So far, Croatia has received €5 322.9 million of Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) resources (53 % of the amended NRRP) in the form of pre financing, six grant and two loan instalments. The disbursements are below the current EU average of 56.4 %. The seventh payment request (grants and loans) is under assessment by the Commission. The plan focuses on the green transition by devoting 38.6 % of the resources to it. It also fosters the digital transformation by committing 20.2 % of the funds (excluding the REPowerEU chapter) to digital projects. In the context of the 2025 European Semester, the Council recommended that Croatia accelerate the implementation of its NRRP. The European Parliament continues to ensure transparency and accountability through interinstitutional dialogues on RRF implementation, and scrutiny of the Commission's work. This briefing is one in a series covering all EU Member States. Fifth edition. The 'NGEU delivery' briefings are updated at key stages throughout the lifecycle of the plans. The author would like to thank Amalia Fumagalli, trainee in the Next Generation EU Monitoring Service, for her research assistance.