All entries related to Croatia, newest first. tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:en:en/countries/croatia 2026-09-09T06:00:00Z Eurotrack tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:af30f018:en 2026-09-09T06:00:00Z

Porsche completed on 9 September 2026, after regulatory approvals, the sale agreed in April 2026 of its 45% stake in the Bugatti Rimac joint venture and its 21% stake in Croatia's Rimac Group to a consortium led by HOF Capital (largest investor BlueFive Capital, plus further institutional investors from the US and Europe). Porsche receives around €1 billion, of which €250 million is earmarked for funding pension obligations; Mate Rimac remains CEO of Bugatti Rimac and additionally becomes President of Bugatti Automobiles (Porsche Newsroom, 9 September 2026; electrive, 10 September 2026). — Source: https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/2026/company/porsche-bugatti-rimac-stakes-42221.html

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:98aaf89b:en 2026-07-24T06:00:00Z

Zadar Airport's new passenger terminal officially opened on 24 July 2026, doubling the airport's existing terminal space and raising capacity to up to 3 million passengers a year. The roughly EUR 35 million investment cycle was financed from the EU-backed National Recovery and Resilience Plan together with the airport's own funding; Prime Minister Andrej Plenković attended the opening ceremony. The airport handled around 1.6 million passengers last year and serves more than 60 European destinations with over 15 airlines. Zadar County additionally announced a 700 m runway extension estimated at EUR 95 million and plans for a rail link to the terminal. — Source: https://www.croatiaweek.com/zadar-airport-new-terminal-3-million-passengers-expansion/

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:140d5959:en 2026-07-17T06:00:00Z

According to an HPB stock exchange filing of 17 Jul 2026, the Croatian competition authority AZTN found that the purchase of Croatia Banka is not a prohibited concentration. In March 2026 HPB had agreed with the Deposit Insurance Agency DAB to buy its entire stake for €15m, and HPB shareholders approved in April. Croatia Banka has total assets of about €275m, HPB about €7.2bn (end of March); further approvals and closing are still pending (PYMNTS/CPI citing SeeNews, 19 Jul 2026). — Source: https://www.pymnts.com/cpi-posts/croatia-competition-authority-approves-hpb-acquisition-of-croatia-banka/

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:4bc9ff42:en 2026-05-11T06:00:00Z

Končar announces an investment cycle of €800m in total with partners; its core is the €260m expansion of the transformer plant in Zagreb-Jankomir as a joint venture with Siemens Energy, to raise capacity significantly given high demand for grid equipment. About 350 new jobs are to be created, around 250 in production and 100 specialists; Prime Minister Plenković called the project strategically important (Total Croatia News citing Poslovni, 12 May 2026). — Source: https://total-croatia-news.com/news/koncar-investment/

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:ad9657ad:en 2026-04-28T06:00:00Z

The transatlantic investor group Pantheon Atlas presented the Pantheon AI campus in Topusko, about 45 minutes from Zagreb, at the Three Seas Initiative summit in Dubrovnik on 28 April 2026: 1GW of total capacity (800MW usable IT load), powered by a 500MW on-site solar plant and 8,000MWh of battery storage. The campus itself is to cost €12bn, with construction from early 2027 and full operation in the first quarter of 2029; including tenants' equipment, total investment is meant to exceed €50bn. All figures come from the sponsors, and the second source reports the same announcement (press release via Business Wire, 28 Apr 2026; second source: W.Media, 5 May 2026). Late addition outside the research window. Update (24 Jul 2026): The transmission system operator HOPS has approved the technical blueprint for connecting the 1 GW campus to the grid, which starts the grid connection agreement process; it requires more than €500m of supporting infrastructure (280 km of lines, a 400 kV substation) that will later be transferred to the state. Construction is still planned to begin in early 2027 (bne IntelliNews, 24 Jul 2026). — Sources: https://suboptic.org/news/transatlantic-investment-group-announces-eu50-billion-ai-data-center-and-innovation-campus-in-croatia----the-largest-investment-in-croatian-history-and-among-the-largest-private-u-s-investments-in-europe · https://w.media/pantheon-atlas-plans-e50bn-ai-data-center-campus-in-croatia/ · https://www.intellinews.com/croatia-s-grid-operator-clears-key-milestone-for-50bn-pantheon-ai-data-centre-project-456636/

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:864c6621:en 2026-03-03T06:00:00Z

According to the mayor of Vukovar, Ricosta Hrvatska will close its shoe production site in Vukovar by the end of March 2026, with 111 employees, mostly women, losing their jobs. He cites the higher statutory minimum wage in Croatia and falling sneaker sales; production moves to Romania and Bulgaria and the hall is up for sale. The city is talking to other employers about taking on staff (Novi list, 3 Mar 2026). — Source: https://www.novilist.hr/?p=1639143

tag:eurotrack.ai,2026:6d6d84fa:en 2026-02-05T06:00:00Z

According to trade union statements, the Slovak owner Tatravagonka has decided to end all business activity at the Zagreb rail vehicle maker by June 2026; the roughly 300 employees are to be made redundant with severance pay, and it is open whether a small team will stay on to look after the idle site. The fate of contracts running until 2032 and the future maintenance of vehicles of the railway company HŽ Putnički prijevoz are also unclear. The source does not say whether the shutdown has actually taken place (Croatia Week, 5 Feb 2026, citing Dnevnik.hr). — Source: https://www.croatiaweek.com/gredelj-rail-factory-closure-croatia-2026/