Regionalism,Reconstitution and Theses for Designing a Strategy for Economic Growth and Development of Slavonia and Baranya

Intensive ageing of population as well as its overall wrong educational orientation send a strong message that economic regression indicates that population and economy are caught in a vicious circle of a crisis, since under such circumstances people aged between 20 and 35 are leaving this region and heading to Zagreb, Istria and, what is modern these days, to Ireland. It is not diffi cult to conclude that such trends of a demographic and economic crisis are mirrored in all other relevant issues and relationships. We should not lose sight of important factors stipulated by such circumstances, such as: first, the economy itself, specifically and traditionally conditioned (agriculture and industry) as well as the war and war consequences, and second, a complete political failure to adapt to new conditions, absence of a growth and development strategy, selection of huge chains of stores as the basis of growth and development of cities, etc. It can also be noticed that all other resources are neglected (as well). Among others, special stress should be place on education, science and the University. Therefore, it is quite obvious that the above mentioned circumstances must be promptly halted based upon new high-quality fundamentals in the community aiming at creating conditions for the policy of regionalism.