The Croatian National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in Croatia. They are held since 1992.
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović ; born 29 April 1968) is a Croatian politician and diplomat who served as President of Croatia from 2015 to 2020. She was the first woman to be elected to the office since the first multi-party elections in 1990 and independence from Yugoslavia in 1991. At 46 years of age, she also became the youngest person to assume the presidency.
Nova TV is a Croatian free-to-air television network launched on 28 May 2000. It was the first commercial television network with national concession in the country and from 2004 until 2018 it was fully owned by the Central European Media Enterprises. In 2018, Direct Media purchased Nova TV and Doma TV.
Franjo Gregurić is a Croatian politician who served as Prime Minister of Croatia from July 1991 to September 1992 leading a national unity government at the beginning of the Croatian War of Independence.
Željko Krajan is a Croatian tennis coach and former professional player.
A referendum on the EU accession of the Republic of Croatia was held on 22 January 2012. Croatia finished accession (membership) negotiations on 30 June 2011 and signed the Treaty of Accession on 9 December 2011, setting it on course to become the bloc's 28th member state. The Constitution of Croatia requires that a binding referendum be held on any political union reducing national sovereignty, such as via European Union membership. On 23 December 2011 the Croatian Parliament made a preliminary decision on EU accession and determined that the referendum would be held on 22 January 2012. The 2012 Croatian EU accession referendum was the first referendum held in Croatia since the Croatian independence referendum held more than 20 years earlier, in 1991.
Croatian Party of Rights Dr. Ante Starčević was a nationalist political party in Croatia.
Davor Ivo Stier is a Croatian-Argentine politician and diplomat. He was a member of the Croatian Parliament in 2011–2013, a member of the European Parliament in 2013–2016, as well as the 13th Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Croatia in 2016–2017.
Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 28 December 2014 and 11 January 2015, the sixth such elections since independence in 1991. Only four candidates contested the elections, the lowest number since 1997. Incumbent President Ivo Josipović, who had been elected as the candidate of the Social Democratic Party in 2009–2010 but ran as an independent, was eligible to seek reelection for a second and final five-year term. As no candidate received 50% of the vote in the first round in December 2014, a run-off took place in January 2015 between the two candidates with the most votes; Josipović and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović. Grabar-Kitarović went on to win the elections by a slim margin of 32,509 votes or 1.48%, making her Croatia's first female president.
Presidential elections were held in Croatia on 22 December 2019. Social Democratic Party nominee Zoran Milanović narrowly defeated incumbent president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović in a second round of voting.
Sports broadcasting contracts in Croatia include:
Ivan Stevanović is a retired Croatian handball player.
Branka Gabriela Vojvodić is a Croatian journalist and former political spokesperson currently serving as the director of HINA, Croatia's nationally-owned news service.
Fani Stipković is a Croatian television reporter, host and journalist.
Nikola Moro is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Italian Serie A club Bologna and the Croatia national team.
Igor Čimbur is a Croatian male badminton player who plays for the Medvedgrad 1998 and also Langenfeld badminton club in Germany. At the Croatian National Badminton Championships, he won the men's doubles title from 2009 to 2012 and in 2017 partnered with Zvonimir Hölbling, and in the mixed doubles in 2009 and 2017 with Matea Čiča. At the International event, he was the runner-up of the 2017 Croatian International tournament partnered with Samatcha Tovannakasem of Thailand.
The Homeland Movement, previously known as Miroslav Škoro Homeland Movement until February 2021, is a nationalist and right-wing populist political party in Croatia. The DP was founded by Croatian singer, former Croatian Democratic Union MP, and 2019–20 presidential election, Miroslav Škoro, on 29 February 2020.
Mateo Drežnjak is a Croatian professional basketball player for SC Derby of the Prva A Liga and the ABA League. Standing at 1.95 m, he plays at the shooting guard position.
Davorin Stetner, Croatian entrepreneur and investor, president of the Croatian Automobile & Karting Federation - a national auto sport authority that is member of Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. He also served as an advisor to the Croatian president Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic in her Economic Council from 2015 to 2020.
The 2023–24 season is GNK Dinamo Zagreb's 113th season in existence and 12th consecutive in the Croatian Football League. They are also competing in the Croatian Cup, the Croatian Super Cup and the UEFA Champions League.