Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (Croatia)

Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs

Ministarstvo vanjskih i europskih poslova
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Agency overview
Formed	31 May 1990
Jurisdiction	Government of Croatia
Headquarters	Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 7–8, Zagreb, Croatia
Employees	670 (2015)
Annual budget	HRK 613 million (2015)
Minister responsible	Miro Kovač
Website	www.mvpei.hr

The Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Ministarstvo vanjskih i europskih poslova or MVEP) is the ministry in the Government of Croatia which is in charge of foreign relations and admission into the European Union.

List of ministers

Palace of the Ministry on Nikola Šubić Zrinski Square in Zagreb

Foreign affairs ministers

The current Minister Miro Kovač is the 12th Foreign Affairs Minister of Croatia. The longest serving minister was Mate Granić (1993–2000), under Prime Ministers Nikica Valentić and Zlatko Mateša, and the shortest serving was Davorin Rudolf who held the post for three months between May 1991 to July 1991 under Prime Minister Josip Manolić.

Minister	Party		Term start	Term end	Days in office
Zdravko Mršić		HDZ	31 May 1990	8 November 1990
Frane Vinko		HDZ	8 November 1990	3 May 1991
Davorin Rudolf		HDZ	3 May 1991	31 July 1991
Zvonimir Šeparović		HDZ	31 July 1991	27 May 1992
Zdenko Škrabalo		HDZ	9 June 1992	28 May 1993
Mate Granić		HDZ	28 May 1993	27 January 2000
Tonino Picula		SDP	27 January 2000	22 December 2003
Miomir Žužul		HDZ	23 December 2003	17 February 2005
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović		HDZ	17 February 2005	12 January 2008
Gordan Jandroković		HDZ	13 January 2008	23 December 2011
Vesna Pusić		HNS	23 December 2011	22 January 2016
Miro Kovač		HDZ	22 January 2016	Incumbent

Source: MVPEI.hr (Croatian)

European integration ministers

The Ministry for European Integration was a short-lived ministry which was established during Prime Minister Ivica Račan in 2000. It grew out of the Government Office for European Integration and was later merged with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs in 2005 under Prime Minister Ivo Sanader. The ministry was charged with overseeing the changes to the legislation needed to comply with the community acquis in preparation and during the Accession of Croatia to the European Union.

Minister	Party		Term start	Term end	Days in office
Ljerka Mintas-Hodak		HDZ	3 April 1998	27 January 2000
Ivan Jakovčić		IDS	27 January 2000	21 June 2001
Neven Mimica		SDP	28 September 2001	23 December 2003
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović		HDZ	23 December 2003	16 February 2005

Notes

a. ^ Unofficial minister. Mintas-Hodak was head of the Government Office for European Integration (Croatian: Ured za europske integracije) established in 1998

b. ^ Jakovčić was appointed first head of the newly formed Ministry for European Integration in 2000 in the Cabinet of Ivica Račan I. The ministry was created out of the former Government Office for European Integration.

c. ^ Grabar-Kitarović was appointed European integration minister in 2003 in the Cabinet of Ivo Sanader I. On 16 February 2005 the Ministry for European Integration was merged with the Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Grabar-Kitarović took over as head of the merged ministry.

d. ^ Pusić was appointed to the post of Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, as the ministry was renamed in 2011 in the Cabinet of Zoran Milanović.

See also

• Foreign relations of Croatia
• List of diplomatic missions of Croatia

External links

• Official website