Croatia’s impressive 2018 World Cup campaign has certainly led to a stream of positive PR and pages of international media, but it seems it could also motivate foreign investment.

The Minister of the Economy, Darko Horvat, commented yesterday that interest in investing in Croatia was growing and that the football team’s success at the World Cup in Russia meant that the country was much better known around the world.

He said that Croatia had opened its doors to investments over the past few months and that this move could well mean the creation of between 10,000 and 15,000 new jobs over the next five years.

Responding to the journalists’ comments that it didn’t seem as if anyone was lining up to invest in Croatia, Horvat said: “You will see what will happen over the next months in that area.”