{"id":27418,"date":"2023-12-08T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/?post_type=news&#038;p=27418"},"modified":"2023-12-11T10:57:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-11T09:57:05","slug":"president-milanovic-in-valpovo-the-croatian-peoples-greatest-nightmare-is-when-others-make-decisions-for-us","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.predsjednik.hr\/en\/news\/president-milanovic-in-valpovo-the-croatian-peoples-greatest-nightmare-is-when-others-make-decisions-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"President Milanovi\u0107 in Valpovo: The Croatian people\u2019s greatest nightmare is when others make decisions for us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The President of the Republic Zoran Milanovi\u0107 attended today a special session of the Valpovo Town Council held on the occasion of marking Municipal Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since a representative from Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the Municipality of Kupres, spoke before him as a guest of the special session, President Milanovi\u0107 underlined the importance of Kupres for the defense of Croatia in the Homeland War. \u201cKupres is especially important because Croatia was defended there, in another state, Bosnia and Herzegovina. We must think of our people in BiH because it\u2019s an important topic for Croatia. We don\u2019t want what is outside Croatia, but we want order where decisions concerning us are made, and they legally concern us under the Dayton Agreement. These are things that should be mentioned all the time, and actively undertaken, because they will be left uncontrolled, and others will decide for us. This has always been the Croatian people\u2019s greatest nightmare,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of Croatia\u2019s demographic challenges, President Milanovi\u0107 said the fear of the decreasing number of Croats has been present for many years. \u201cHistory and life did not begin in 2013 when we joined the European Union. Our story is much older. But the fear that we will disappear and that there are not enough of us is something that has been with us since Strossmayer\u2019s era. Throughout the decades, the Croatian nation has grown, in Croatia, to some five million people. If someone had told Strossmayer 150 years ago that there would be so many of us at the end of the 20th century, the man would have been overjoyed,\u201d said the President of the Republic, adding that \u201cwe must accept the fact that there won\u2019t be ten million of us\u201d and that nearly all countries and nations in central and eastern Europe are in the same situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The President also spoke about the need to take advantage of EU funds, but also warned about the problems that Croatia could face, as a beneficiary of European money, in case of a crisis in the EU: \u201cIf the European Union finds itself in an economic crisis in a few years, it will immediately raise the question of why we are paying those who have less than us, where that money is going. We must be clear about that because it can but does not have to happen. If it doesn\u2019t happen immediately, it will happen later because the EU, unlike the US, does not have its own energy but imports it, which makes the EU dependent. The EU also does not have the strongest and most dominant technologies on which the Americans and some from Asia earn huge amounts of money. In other words, Europe is old and has entered into a continuity of averageness. What we produce as a continent, other produce too and we soon won\u2019t be that competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to President Milanovi\u0107, also speaking at the ceremony were the Mayor of Valpovo Matko \u0160utalo, Head of the Municipality of Kupres Zdravko Mio\u010d, acting Osijek-Baranja County Prefect Mato Luki\u0107, and Member of Parliament and delegate of the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament Goran Ivanovi\u0107. 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