Hungary and Croatia will together organise events this year to celebrate Croatia's official accession with the EU, Deputy Prime Minister Tibor Navracsics said on Friday.

As Hungarians and Croatians lived together under a common state for 800 years and their two countries are strategic partners it is important to jointly celebrate Croatia's entering the EU, Navracsics told a press conference.

He said that Croatia is now joining a series of programmes Hungary and Poland launched together in 2011 and continued in 2012.

As the first of the tripartite events, Navracsics, who is also justice minister, Croatian Ambassador Gordan Grlic Radman and Polish Ambassador Roman Kowalski opened a photo exhibition of works representing the three countries in the Justice Ministry.

Up next in a series of Croatia events is an archaeology exhibition the Budapest History Museum will host, to be followed by a joint concert by the Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Zagreb on June 26. In the autumn, a camp for Hungarian, Croatian and Polish children will be held in Zanka, at Lake Balaton in western Hungary, Navracsics said.

At the press conference, the Croatian ambassador thanked Hungary and Poland for their standing support to Croatia throughout its entire EU accession process.

(MTI, Ministry of Public Administration and Justice)