European funds or shorter EU funds represent financial instruments developed with the purpose to support the implementation of certain purposeful policies of the European Union in the Member States. EU funds are foreseen for entrepreneurs, tradesmen, municipalities, counties, associations, educational institutions, persons and other public institutions. EU funds are the money of European citizens that are assigned to individual beneficiaries for the implementation of projects that should contribute to the achievement of the goals of key EU policies. One of the most important public policies is the Cohesion Policy, with the purpose at strengthening global competitiveness and reducing economic, social and territorial differences between EU countries. By joining the European Union, the Republic of Croatia has become a beneficiary of the EU funds. In the financial period 2014-2020. RH has a total of EUR 10.676 billion available from the European Structural and Investment (ESI) funds. There is a strong growth in the use of EU funds in Croatia which is constantly growing and financially helps to a big number of entrepreneurs.