ZAGREB, October 28, 2019 - The leader of the opposition MOST party, Božo Petrov, said on Monday that emigration was the biggest challenge faced by Croatia since its accession to the European Union, and criticised the incumbent government for failing to seriously tackle the issue.
Petrov accused the government of taking only cosmetic measures in a bid to halt the depopulation trend.
"There are no concrete, serious moves to address the challenge of emigration," Petrov told a news conference in Zagreb on Monday.
He accused the government of failing to adopt a demographic strategy to alleviate the effects of the population decline.
Petra Mandić, a Rijeka councillor from this party, presented MOST's proposal that the minimum amount of monthly allowance during parental leave should be 3,991 kuna instead of the current minimum of 2,328 kuna.
MOST is in favour of introducing a monthly allowance of 135 kuna for parents with one child and of 2,000 kluna and more for parents with three children, depending on their income.
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