> As a completely alternate anecdote, I'm planning to attend a conference there in 2024,and this change has made it a lot more attractive :) I've visited Croat

> As a completely alternate anecdote, I'm planning to attend a conference there in 2024,and this change has made it a lot more attractive :) I've visited Croatia about a million times in 2012-2022 (that includes pre-EU), and the border controls were almost always a non-story. They'd see the cover of an EU passport (or even the car plates) and would just wave at us to go through. I was stopped once to have my bag searched for drugs, because you know, long hair = obviously must be smuggling drugs. But that happened near other borders too (even inside Schengen; I used to hitch hike a lot).