Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration

The garden of the Croatian Foreign Ministry in Zagreb at Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration ( Croatian Ministarstvo vanjskih poslova i europskih integracija Republike Hrvatske , MVPEI for short) of the Croatian government is the country's foreign ministry . The central task is to “maintain” all bilateral relations.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs ( Ministarstvo vanjskih poslova ) was established on May 31, 1990. In order to improve relations with the EU, an office for EU integration was founded on April 3, 1998, from which the Ministarstva za europske integracije (German: Ministry for European Integration) emerged on January 27, 2000 . On February 16, 2005, both ministries were merged into one ministry under the current name.

Emergence

In two ballots on 22./23. April and 6./7. May 1990 a new parliament elected for the Socialist Republic of Croatia. At the constituent meeting on May 30, 1990, Franjo Tuđman was elected President according to the current constitution of 1974. Zdravko Mršić became the first Minister for Foreign Affairs on May 31, 1990 (Croatian: ministar inozemnih poslova) .

address

Trg N. Š. Zrinskog 7 -8, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia

List of ministers

Before Croatia's independence

Zdravko Mršić (May 31, 1990 - November 8, 1990)
Frane Vinko Golem (November 8, 1990 - May 3, 1991)
Before that Rudolf (May 3, 1991 - July 31, 1991)
Zvonimir Šeparović (July 31, 1991 -)

Since Croatia's independence

Zvonimir Šeparović (- May 27, 1992)
Zdenko Škrabalo (June 9, 1992 - May 28, 1993)
Mate Granić (May 28, 1993 - January 27, 2000)
Tonino Picula (January 27, 2000 - December 22, 2003)
Miomir Žužul (December 23, 2003 - February 17, 2005)
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović (February 17, 2005 - January 12, 2008)
Gordan Jandroković (January 12, 2008 - December 23, 2011)
Vesna Pusić (December 23, 2011 - January 22, 2016)
Miro Kovač (January 22, 2016 - October 19, 2016)
Before Taurus (October 19, 2016 - June 19, 2017)
Marija Pejčinović Burić (June 19, 2017 - July 19, 2019)
Gordan Grlić Radman ( officiating since July 19, 2019)

EU enlargement

The Croatian Foreign Ministry was responsible for the talks on Croatia's admission to the EU .

Web links

Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Croatian and English)
Croatian government (Croatian and English)
EU enlargement

Individual evidence

↑ Croatia: Overview. September 4, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .
↑ Zagreb, July 19, 2019 - Gordan Grlić Radman assumes duty of foreign minister. July 19, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .

45.810185 15.979308Coordinates: 45 ° 48 ′ 36.7 ″ N , 15 ° 58 ′ 45.5 ″ E

[1] Croatia: Overview. September 4, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .

[2] Zagreb, July 19, 2019 - Gordan Grlić Radman assumes duty of foreign minister. July 19, 2019, accessed September 16, 2019 .