Croatian President Zoran Milanović announced today in Rovinj, at this year’s Communication Days, that he will no longer run for any political office.
“As time goes on, and in my episode, time goes on. I will no longer be a candidate for president or for anything in politics. I am slowly summarizing some things. I understand that it is nice to be in the herd, but in the herd it also stinks,” concluded Milanović.
At the Communications Days, where more than 180 speakers are participating on five festival stages, Milanović spoke about global challenges, the political environment and the importance of communications, especially in the time of technological progress, and asserted that Croatia has remained on some kind of scale in the last 30 years, regardless of various changes.
“Croatia remained within the framework of the same paradigm, the same two parties, similar conflicts of ideologies, the same stories, dinners and accusations against each other,” said Milanović, who opened the Communication Days, of which he is the patron.
He added that in Croatia “with all the new tools, with artificial intelligence, it is still standing still, the ratios are the same, the targets are similar, and the GDP is growing”. In such circumstances, according to the president, Croatia must ask itself where it is as a small country in today’s Europe.
“Simply, Croatia is growing to a significant extent, but it is not developing in the right way. We are service providers, and that service that Croatia provides and from which it lives relatively decently, is something very labile and it is not something that guarantees continuity and inviolability,” Milanović said.
“A nation state like Croatia, Hungary, Germany, Austria and almost all Russian states is primarily self-oriented, and at its base is selfishness, not malice. They all do that, some talk about it a little too much like Orban, but basically they all behave like that,” the president emphasized, adding that in such a Europe, Croatia is fighting for its space, for its security and for its defense.
“In such circumstances, we try to draw attention to ourselves while making sure not to resent anyone too much and to get something for ourselves, that is, to be protected from external influences and the power of potential enemies,” Milanović said.
