Croatia

French presence

Consular representation: consular section of the Embassy in Zagreb and honorary consulates in Split and Dubrovnik.
French community in Croatia: 865 recorded on the register of French nationals living abroad in 2025, in addition to 140 persons on the protection register. 552,781 French tourists in Croatia in 2025.

Visits 

Recent visits of French authorities to Croatia

• 12-13 January 2026 : Visit by Mr Benjamin Haddad, Minister Delegate for Europe, to Croatia 24-25 November 2021: State visit by Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of the French Republic, to Croatia
• 23 July 2021 : Visit by Mr Clément Beaune, Minister Delegate for Europe, to Zagreb
• 14 January 2021 : Visit by Mr Jean-Yves Le Drian, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Croatia

Recent visits of Croatian authorities to France

• 8-9 December 2025 : Visit by Mr Andrej Plenković, Croatian Prime Minister, to France
• 25 March 2025 : Meeting between Mr Sébastien Lecornu, Minister for the Armed Forces, and Mr Ivan Anušić, his Croatian counterpart 
• 20 November 2024 : Meeting between Mr Benjamin Haddad, Minister Delegate for Europe, and Ms Andreja Metelko-Zgombic, Secretary of State of Croatia for Europe, to Paris
• 30 October 2023 : Meeting of Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of the Republic, and Mr Andrej Plenković, Croatian Prime Minister in Paris
• 5 June 2023 : Visit by Mr Gordan Grlić-Radman, Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, to Paris
• 07 January 2020 : Visit by Mr Andrej Plenković, Croatian Prime Minister, to France

Cultural, scientific, technical and decentralized cooperation

France and Croatia enjoy vibrant cultural cooperation, particularly in the area of educational and linguistic cooperation, archaeology and the promotion of French cultural and creative industries. The Institut Français in Croatia celebrated its centenary in 2021. 

In terms of education and academia, there are five European academic alliances between French and Croatian universities (Zadar, Split, Osijek, Rijeka and Dubrovnik) and a dual diploma between the Universities of Zagreb and Orléans in biotechnology, and 112 Erasmus+ agreements and 11 bilateral agreements. Croatia also has two high schools with bilingual programmes (with Label France Education) in Zagreb and the École Française Internationale de Zagreb (EFiZ), which received its accreditation in the summer of 2026. 

At scientific level, the Cogito partnership launched in 2002 helped finance more than 160 joint research projects.