{"id":18058,"date":"2022-06-24T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&p=18058"},"modified":"2022-06-27T13:26:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T11:26:55","slug":"president-milanovic-in-vrgorac-we-must-be-loud-and-fight-for-our-interests-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-in-vrgorac-we-must-be-loud-and-fight-for-our-interests-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 in Vrgorac: We must be loud and fight for our interests in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 attended this evening a special session of the Town Council of Vrgorac on the occasion of Municipal Day and the feast day of Saints Peter and Paul. In congratulating the residents of Vrgorac on Municipal Day and their feast, he told them to be ambitious, to set the highest possible goals, and to spend European money to the last euro because it is theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCroatia is in the European Union which is a reality for us now, and I believe that our grandchildren and their children will be in the European Union. However, one should be realistic and ready the whole time. We haven\u2019t taken advantage of those funds, and when we do, they are absorbed at a rate of 5 billion kuna a year in Croatia, during a period of nine years, which is half of Zagreb\u2019s annual budget for the entire country. That\u2019s what we\u2019re getting from the European Union, that\u2019s nothing, that\u2019s little\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He explained that he keeps talking about the negligible amounts of money we take from the European funds not to discourage or dishearten people but in order to be more rational. \u201cNot to get too excited in that big, complex system, where the small have to be loud, stick together and fight for our interests feverishly, but to be cool-headed. To be selfish in certain matters, and seek our interest because we are a small country, state and nation\u201d, the President remarked. He added that Croatia as well as most European peoples and nations are experiencing a population decline. \u201cIt\u2019s up to us and you to organize a good and safe life in this God-given space, this is like a historical lottery\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 stated, adding that Croatia is one of the safest countries in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his address he also referred with skepticism to the speech by the president of the Town Council who spoke prior to him about the fighter jets that Croatia is purchasing. \u201cIt\u2019s not true that they cost a billion euros, they cost a billion and three million euros, which is a lot of money. That\u2019s for the next twenty years, for our country, our security, our freedom, independence, for the guard we can take, and not fear that someone will attack us. That costs, and I view this with goodwill regardless of all the criticism I voiced of the government and the way they are conducting affairs. Not because I am Commander in chief but also as a Croatian citizen, a father, a resident of this country, a Croat\u201d, he underlined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBe ambitious, don\u2019t set goals and think they are unreachable. Being cool-headed assures that every goal is realistic. You have to aspire to this, you are young, you are educated and you have assembled around the \u201cYour town\u201d project, not around an ideology. You have assembled out of fondness for your town and the wish to change things. I wish you and similar organizations of young people from Croatia the best. This is not intended against political parties, but today is the time to realize that if we are not loud in the European Union, if we do not fight for our interests, that they will bypass us or even trample us, without it even being intentional. They will simply not know that we exist\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 said in concluding his address at the special session of the Town of Vrgorac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also speaking at the special session of the Municipal Council was the envoy of the Prime Minister and State secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture \u0160ime Mr\u0161i\u0107, the president of the Town Council of Vrgorac Ljubomir Erceg and the mayor of Vrgorac Mile Herceg, who along with the State secretary in the Ministry of Tourism Ton\u010di Glavina opened the \u201cDays of Dalmatian Prosciutto and Wines\u201d fair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the official opening of the fair, President Milanovi\u0107 in the company of his host toured the exhibitors of the \u201cDays of Dalmatian Prosciutto and Wines\u201d fair. Alongside President Milanovi\u0107 were the Head of the Cabinet Bartol \u0160imuni\u0107 and the Adviser for Human Rights and Civil Society Melita Muli\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia \/ Marko Beljan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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