{"id":24639,"date":"2023-08-22T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=24639"},"modified":"2023-08-23T11:57:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T09:57:18","slug":"president-milanovic-on-demographics-more-people-can-live-in-croatia-but-they-wont-be-our-children-but-people-who-will-be-foreigners-to-us","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-on-demographics-more-people-can-live-in-croatia-but-they-wont-be-our-children-but-people-who-will-be-foreigners-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 on demographics: More people can live in Croatia, but they won\u2019t be our children, but people who will be foreigners to us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cThis space, climate, soil and infrastructure opportunities could accommodate ten million people, but what people? Following the example of western states that have completely opened their borders \u2013 inviting everyone even when they can\u2019t accept them \u2013 thereby changing the structure of society\u201d, the President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 said today when speaking about demographics in Croatia on the occasion of Municipal Day of Lokve in Gorski Kotar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He underlined that demographics are \u201ca topic for deep and quick thinking\u201d. &#8220;There are fewer than four million of us. These are our people, mostly Croats and Serbs, similar people, of the same faith, customs, and language. Are we going to strive for six million? But, I guarantee that those will not be our children. Those will be people who will be foreigners to us. Dear people, maybe even better than we are, but we don&#8217;t know them. This is our country, to which people are very much attached, traditional and conservative, not in the political sense of the word, but simply in the fact that they are accustomed to one way of life and that it will be difficult to change it. That is the greatest treasure we have,&#8221; President Milanovi\u0107 noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recalling the time when as a boy he saw Lokvarsko lake for the first time, he underlined that he wants the view of Lokve and Lokvarsko lake to stay as it was fifty years ago. \u201cCroatia has its capacities, it can accommodate more people, but it can live normally even with this number of people. When we stop calling ourselves out and complaining about how we are few and how we are disappearing, at that moment we will realise that we are as strong as we should be, then we will&nbsp;concentrate on ourselves and our interests, as a state, as a political community, while trying to remain human. It\u2019s not easy, but it\u2019s not that we don\u2019t have a chance\u201d, President Milanovi\u0107 said in concluding his address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking in addition to President Milanovi\u0107 at the special session were the President of the Municipal Council of Lokve Sandra Okanovi\u0107, the Head of the Municipality of Lokve Toni \u0160timac, the Head of the Municipality of Mrkopalj, Josip Brozovi\u0107 on behalf of the coordination of Heads of Muncipalities and Mayors of Gorski Kotar, Primorje-Gorski Kotar County Prefect Zlatko Komadina as well as Members of the Croatian Parliament Pe\u0111a Grbin and Tomislav Klari\u0107.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside President Milanovi\u0107 was the Adviser to the President for Human Rights and Civil Society.<\/p>\n\n\n<!--GALLERY BLOCK-->\n<div class=\"c-lightbox-gallery js-lightbox\">\n                <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSC_2244-1024x768.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSC_2244-768x576.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSC_2291-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSC_2291-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSC_2299-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSC_2299-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n                    <!--single-->\n            <a data-no-swup class=\"c-lightbox-gallery__single js-lightbox-single\"\n               href=\"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSC_2399-1024x576.jpg\"\n               style=\"background-image: url('https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSC_2399-768x432.jpg')\"><\/a>\n            <!--end single-->\n        <\/div>\n<!--end GALLERY BLOCK-->\n\n\n\n<p>PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia \/ Ana Marija Kati\u0107<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis space, climate, soil and infrastructure opportunities could accommodate ten million people, but what people? 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