PM Luksic presents awards to best students in Montenegro

Prime Minister Igor Luksic attended the ceremony honouring the previous year’s best students in Montenegro. In his speech he underlined that “young people should be the backbone and pride of every society,” and that any young person wishing to go to university and get a job afterwards should be able to do so.

PM Luksic made a point of saying that an occasion such as the ceremony of honouring young people’s achievements should be decoupled from politics, adding that he wishes not to boast of what the Government did for young people, as he believes that more could always be done for them.

He put special emphasis on the need to enable access to higher education to all, to enhance education opportunities through introducing a wide variety of university programmes and to create “a society in which not only the state but the private sector as well will assist anyone who wishes to pursue higher education find employment afterwards.”

The Prime Minister reiterated his commitment to changing the values in the society, underlining that one of the new values should be to “make it a habit for employers to offer jobs to young people” and for the government to create conditions for making the probationary employment a sort of “continuation to education available automatically to all graduates.”

“This will be a fresh contribution from the government to youth education and my Cabinet has already begun the analysis of regulations that could enable this model to take hold,” PM Luksic underlined adding that he expects “everyone to work hard to create conditions for new projects, new investments, new know-how, new capital and new jobs. This is the cornerstone of our development.”

He concluded by congratulating the laureates and reiterating the immeasurable importance of talented young people’s contribution to the society.