From welcoming (tested and quaratine) tourists to making it easier for them to stay longer: Croatia to grant one-year residency permits to remote digital workers from outside the European Union, provided they don't require tourist visas to enter.

With Cyclone Boris, the first snowfall arrived in the country, although still during the summer

With 34 and possibly more bat species, Croatia is among the European countries with the greatest biodiversity of bat fauna, but their conservation status is poor or inadequate, said the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Green Transition

Compulsory military service, lasting two months, will be reintroduced in the country from 1 January 2025; compulsory conscription had been suspended in 2008 and the government began considering reinstating it after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022