President Milanović at 60th Anniversary of Faculty of Political Science
The President of the Republic Zoran Milanović attended today a special session of the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb celebrating its 60th anniversary this year. President Milanović congratulated the professors and employees on Faculty Day and told them to be strict and uncompromising researchers.
“I wish that you search painstakingly for the truth because the fact that your faculty was founded only in 1962 was not accidental, and it was the first one. Time was needed for society, not to mature, but to develop in a certain direction and for what you do to become an indispensable discipline”, President Milanović stated in his address.
“Political scientists are the most literate there is, they are the product of this Faculty”, the President added and welcomed the reduction in the number of students enrolled at the Faculty of Political Science. As for the possibility of Croatian students studying abroad from the first year, he said it has its pros and cons. “On the one hand it ended the proliferation of private schools that as a rule have no quality because they are founded just for the sake of the market and those that survived have a value. For our children to go abroad from the first year is not good. All the knowledge, all the literacy and all the sources that are needed exist here”, President Milanović noted.
In his address President Milanović referred to the state of the Croatian media that he compared to journalism of thirty years ago. He stated that the Faculty of Political Science “cannot be responsible for the catastrophic state of the Croatian media”. “Once you knew where you could stop. Things were passed over in silence, we pretended to be dead, the Party was in full control. However, there wasn’t so much glare, so many unbelievable fabrications and interpretations available to all. Today it is necessary to know what to read, what to follow and to be terribly critical”, President Milanović stated in concluding his address.
At the special session the Dean’s award was bestowed upon the best students and recognitions to retired Faculty professors and employees. Speaking at the ceremony in addition to President Milanović were the Dean of the Faculty of Political Science Andrija Hrenjak, the Rector of the University of Zagreb Stjepan Lakušić, the Mayor of Zagreb Tomislav Tomašević, the State Secretary in the Ministry of Science and Education and delegate of the Prime Minister Ivica Šušak and the Member of the European Parliament and delegate of the Speaker of the Croatian Parliament Sunčana Glavak.
Accompanying President Milanović were the Adviser to the President for Education Jadranka Žarković and the Special Adviser to the President for the Economy Velibor Mačkić.
PHOTO: Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia / Filip Glas