Euromost: In the next census, the number of inhabitants in the north will be halved

"That is why we are asking the Government of Montenegro, who will remain living in the municipalities in the north of Montenegro, because migrations are still ongoing, and young married couples are still choosing to live in Podgorica and outside of Montenegro," the non-governmental organization said.

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The census data confirmed the bad demographic picture of the north of Montenegro and emigration in the last ten years, the NGO Euromost announced.

From that NGO, they state that in the past period they have repeatedly warned about the problems faced by the north, stressing that the next census, if something is not done urgently, will be a much worse situation and that, as they announced, the number of inhabitants in the north of Montenegro will Gore will be halved, while there will be no inhabitants in three municipalities, along with many deserted villages.

"And the current data are like this because of the participation of a large number of citizens in the census, who are citizens of Montenegro and who live outside of Montenegro, and whose family members registered as living in Montenegro.

That's why we ask the Government of Montenegro, who will stay to live in the municipalities in the north of Montenegro, because migration is still going on, and young married couples are still choosing to live in Podgorica and outside Montenegro. Still, massive numbers of young people leave their municipalities immediately after finishing high school, while the state looks at all this, as if nothing is happening", according to the NGO Euromost.

They remind that the state of Montenegro shut down all the faculties in the north, neglected all the young people who study in the north, canceled everything that a young person needs to stay living in the north, and denied young couples the opportunity to get a job in the municipalities in the north and to starts his family, while on the other side we have local administrations that hire only based on political affiliation and that are not financially able to keep young people in their municipalities.

"We appeal to all decision-makers to take the situation seriously, to understand that what Montenegro needs most today is the survival of the people, regardless of religion and nation, and not who belongs to which nationality, because we already have places in the north of Montenegro, where there are also churches and mosques, but there is no one to maintain them and enter them," they state at the end of the press release in this organization.

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