The City of Dubrovnik reported 3.3 million expense to the European Union Solidarity Fund, and in order to get the funds spent by preventing the spread of coronavirus. Institutions, utilities and companies in the City of Dubrovnik shared their expenses, as well s prediction of future expenses, which mostly go on medical assistance, including costs of medicines, equipment and medical devices, health care and medical examinations, laboratory analyzes, costs of civil protection infrastructure, personal protective equipment, special assistance to vulnerable groups, and rehabilitation of buildings and structures.

As a unit of local self-government, the City of Dubrovnik collected data from institutions, utilities and companies owned by it, all on the basis of a national request to be submitted by the Republic of Croatia in early June in an official request for assistance from the European Union Solidarity Fund. The exact co-financing rate will be determined at a later stage, but may not exceed a maximum of six percent of the eligible costs declared at the level of the country of the cost applicant.

The Solidarity Fund was established in 2002 to act on large natural disasters, to express solidarity with regions within Europe affected by disasters such as the COVID-19 pandemic.