The CCEE president and primate of the Hungarian Catholic Church, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Cardinal Peter Erdoe, told a news conference that there were signs that some countries were in a demographic collapse.
The CCEE deputy chairman, Zagreb Archbishop Cardinal Josip Bozanic, said that the situation in Croatia was worrying regarding demographic trends.
He recalled that the CCEE had also had held its gathering in Zagreb in 1983.