Key Topics

As well as its basic priorities, the Republic of Croatia will be placing focus on the following issues during its upcoming Presidency:

• An ambitious, sustainable and balanced Multiannual Financial Framework for the period 2021-2027
• Implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights
• Stopping negative demographic trends
• Connectivity: the Trans-European Transport Network and the CEF (Connecting Europe Facility)
• Security, strategic guidelines for free, safe and just European Union
• Enlargement policy and the EU-Western Balkans summit
• Green Europe and a ‘Green Deal’
• New job markets, the importance of knowledge, education, innovation and lifelong learning
• Connecting the EU with the public, particularly young people
• Democratisation, the fundamental values of the Union, the fight against fake news, intolerance and disinformation on digital platforms