ZAGREB, Oct 16 (Hina) - As many as 140,000 young people, mostly highly educated, have left Croatia in the past 11 years. This negative trend has continued in the past two years with no indications of ceasing, Croatian President
Stjepan Mesic said at a conference entitled "Perspectives and Future of Croatian Youth", held at the Presidential Offices. Young people must urgently have institutional frameworks such as a youth law and the establishment of a competent state body which would create and implement a long-term policy for young people with the support of citizens, Mesic stressed. Support to the youth today means giving contributions to the development of education, tolerance and cultivated life. This is why I am joining the positive social forces aspiring towards this goal, he asserted. Participants in the conference had several suggestions to improve the position of young people who should be viewed as strategic facto
ZAGREB, Oct 16 (Hina) - As many as 140,000 young people, mostly
highly educated, have left Croatia in the past 11 years. This
negative trend has continued in the past two years with no
indications of ceasing, Croatian President Stjepan Mesic said at a
conference entitled "Perspectives and Future of Croatian Youth",
held at the Presidential Offices.
Young people must urgently have institutional frameworks such as a
youth law and the establishment of a competent state body which
would create and implement a long-term policy for young people with
the support of citizens, Mesic stressed.
Support to the youth today means giving contributions to the
development of education, tolerance and cultivated life. This is
why I am joining the positive social forces aspiring towards this
goal, he asserted.
Participants in the conference had several suggestions to improve
the position of young people who should be viewed as strategic
factors for development.
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