The Republic of Croatia has participated in cultural and creative sector financing programmes of the European Union since 2007 as part of the Culture project. When Croatia became a member of the EU in 2013, it also became a participant in the Creative Europe (2014 – 2020) financing programme. During the last seven years, there were more than 50 projects in which Croatia was either a lead partner or a partner with other members of Creative Europe. Creative Europe is divided into three sub-programmes – MEDIA, Culture, and the Cross-sector strand. Creative Europe’s budget is a little less than 1.5 billion €, and 31 % of the whole budget is spent on the Culture sub-programme. This sub-programme supports and promotes Europe's cultural sector, which also encompasses performing arts. This paper focuses on performing arts in Croatia within the Creative Europe programme. The first part of the paper describes Creative Europe, and the reader will get an overview of projects made with Croatian partners. The second part shows the research on how being a partner in Creative Europe projects affected performing arts in Croatia in the context of the programme (2014 – 2020). Based on six interviews with officials of cultural and educational institutions and non-governmental organisations, the paper features three analyses that predict how the development of performing arts will look in the context of the Creative Europe programme (2021 – 2027).