Submitting to parliament an annual report on the government's performance, he reiterated the importance of fighting for the highest standards in national minority rights, equating it with the importance of economic growth.
Speaking of the placement of bilingual signs on state institutions in Vukovar, Milanovic said the government was enforcing the constitutional law on minority rights and that it believed in it because this law and this practice made Croatia a little better and a little happier place.
He called on MPs and the public not to be completely blinded by economic issues, saying there were many more dimensions to life.
He called for not allowing the trampling of the values of anti-fascism and secularism, the discrimination of the LGBT community or the disenfranchisement of any minority. "If we allowed that, our lives, regardless of the economic situation, would be devalued."
Milanovic said his cabinet would use all the legal mechanisms for Croatia to further expand the area of freedom, for everyone to live in line with their beliefs and the free understanding of their identity.
He called the strategy for developing education and science as "the strategy of all strategies," saying that denying modern education to the generations coming of age would be an unpardonable sin. "We will make sure that the people leaving our schools develop healthy, spiritually, physically and socially. That's why we insist on health and civil education on schools."