The reason behind formating the European Union was to fight together against shortages and making it easier to other EU member states to overall coorporate with the European Union as easier trading between EU members states. The Government of Republic of Croatia was positive about Croatia entering the EU, and they saw it also as an opportunity to develop into a economicly powerful country who will be accepted as one of the leading countries in Europe full of opportunities, especially after devastating concsequences of the Civil War in Yugoslavia. Nevertheless, some people didn`t see entering into EU as the rightful path to successful development of our country, but they saw a lot of threats in the act of accepting the membership of the European Union. To sum up, the process of entering into European Union was more bitter than sweet. The country of Croatia is well known as the country with beautiful nature, wonderful beaches, clear sea and tasteful culinary specialties, and for those reasons, tourism is one of the most developed branch in our economy. However, by the examples of other hihgly developed countries of the World, we can realize that tourism can be used only as a „bonus“ in our national budget, while, in our case, it is not like that. Although, the branch of tourism shows signficant amount of positive results, as a country, we should not be relying on it as much as we do, but we should be focusing on developing other economical branches as such is export and manufacturing which will contribute to growth of GDP as well as overall growth of Croatian economy. Entering the European Union, the Government thought that it will help us significantly in developing undeveloped economical branches and today, after eight years, we are in this position. In this essay, I will be dealing with positive and negative points of accepting the membership of EU and also, how EU generally affects on the foreign trade policy of Croatia, a part of economy who needs the most amount of help for further development.