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Croatia will finally adopt the euro on 1 January 2023.

This became clear today after the Council of the EU signed the last three legal acts necessary for this purpose.

Croatia plans to replace its national currency, the kuna, with the euro from January 1 next year

Croatia announced on Wednesday that the final proposals for the motifs for future Croatian euro coins, which will replace today's national currency, the kuna, are the Croatian coat-of-arms, a geographical map of Croatia, the marten - the animal after which kuna was named, the Glagolitic script - the oldest known Slavic alphabet and the inventor Nikola Tesla who was born in central Croatia.

In Croatia you can buy a property in picturesque Legrad for just one kuna. According to the Croatian Radio and Television, inquiries are coming from all over the country, as well as from some neighboring countries.

Croatian Finance Minister Zdravko Marić and Central Bank Governor Boris Vujčić urged Croatia to join the European Central Bank's Unified Supervision Mechanism, which is the first step towards joining the eurozone. According to media in Zagreb, the procedure for replacing the Croatian kuna with the euro could happen after five years, Nova TV reported.

A Germany-bound plane from Oman has landed in Kuwait after a bomb threat.
The state-run KUNA news agency said the plane set off from the Omani city of Salalah and was bound for Cologne.
KUNA said some 299 people were evacuated on landing as authorities searching the aircraft.