Do you know why today is a holiday? National Day before we celebrated June 25th and changed dates …

The ruling coalition led by the SDP 2001 decided that as state holidays and non-working days of celebrating National Day on June 25 and Independence Day on October 8, while on May 30, until then, the Croatian Parliament Day, the working day and a memorial day, became the day of statehood.

But that has been changed. In November 2019, the Croatian Parliament established a new calendar of the holidays, which after nineteen years led to the new pre -layout of non -working days.

In the new calendar, Statehood Day is a national holiday and a non -working day and was returned to May 30, while on June 25th, he became Independence Day, and on October 8, the Croatian Parliament Day. Both are commemorated as memorial and are no longer non -working days, which is not good for many to ‘sit’. Specifically, June 22 is a holiday and day of anti -fascist struggle, so this was always nice to combine with June 25th in any extended weekend or a smaller vacation.

Amendments to the Law on State Holidays

But let’s go back a little in the fall of 2019, at the time of the amendments to the State Holidays Act. This is how Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic spoke:

– We have to undergo a public consultation that is going to this week. We will present the proposal of the Law on Amendments to the Law on Holidays on the coalition partners on Wednesday, and will be on party bodies. The solution is complete, carefully designed, we worked for a long time and consulted myself – Plenkovic told reporters at the time.

– We are talking about the period from 1990 to 1998, but in a way that also has an affective element in the Croatian people. We respect the legal, constitutional -legal and international consequences of each of these decisions in certain of the key dates, but also the part concerning the young generation to the institutions of the Croatian state – added Plenkovic, who, during the public consultation on the law, refused to find out whether he would be re -included as a state holiday and Statehood Day on May 30.

The Government advocated a return to May 30 during the period before the duties of the date, and then Minister of Defense Damir Krsticevic said that in 2020 it was celebrated 30 years after the Croatian state’s origin and that their goal was to return Statehood Day to May 30.

– That date in the people was best received. My view is also that May 30 is the best date for marking National Day. I expect it to be officially voted in Parliament in the fall. The initiative was first announced by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic – Krsticevic said in August 2019.

Zagreb: Statehood Day marked by the demonstration exercises of the Croatian Army and Police and a commemorative flight program |

Photo: Luka Batelic/Pixsell

What do we mark today and why?

As Statehood Day, on May 30, it began to be celebrated since 1991 as a memorial to the founding of the first democratically elected Parliament. Thus, until 2001, when the Prime Minister of Ivica Racan, there was a change of law, and as a day of statehood, he celebrated from that year on June 25, since that day, in 1991, the Parliament made a decision on the independence and sovereignty of Croatia. In 2001, Independence Day was introduced on October 8, as the Parliament made a unanimous decision on the termination of state -law relationships with other republics and the provinces of the SFRY on that date.

Many expressed dissatisfaction with the proposal to return the Statehood Day to May 30, saying that in that case that day turns into a celebration of the HDZ’s arrival to power and that on June 25 it makes a lot more sense because the decision on independence and sovereignty was then made.

However, the decision is vote and now we have the same holidays, except that some have changed the dates and became national holidays, and some stopped being non -working days.

National Day is non -working for most citizens of the Republic of Croatia, which means that most stores do not work that day.

Look HERE How shops and shopping centers do on Statehood Day.

To this day get a kuna

On May 30, 1994, Croatian kuna was introduced. She replaced the temporary money, in fact a cash voucher, a Croatian dinar that was introduced on December 2nd, 1990, and by which Croatia definitely spoke from the already former Federal Yugoslavia in his monetary terms. Unlike the dinars, which will remain remembered for 30 or more percentage of value reduction to the moon and the stabilization program in the fall of 1993, after which it was fixed with good foundations to the real money, the kuna was one of the most stable currencies in Europe.