[2][1] Croatia supports North Macedonia's European Union membership.

Today, both countries are full members of the Council of Europe, and of the NATO.

[7] Nevertheless, she also recognized insufficiencies of this approach in which in the case of any instability Zagreb would follow the official position of Brussels institutions instead of being an well informed link between the region and the EU capable of helping Brussels decision-making in prevention of possible escalation.

[7] During the existence of Kingdom of Yugoslavia extreme nationalist and fascist Croatian organization of Ustaše and the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization collaborated in their disruptive and terrorist activities, most notoriously in the case of 1934 assassination of King of Yugoslavia Alexander I and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou in Marseille during king's state visit to France.

[8] In 26 August 1936 at the University of Zagreb a group of Macedonian students belonging to the MANAPO signed the Political Declaration, an illegal document requesting political and social emancipation of Macedonians in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.