Another rather poorly worded statement from the prime minister, to say the very least...

"As a civil servant of the Church, I'm making no pretense about entering into professional judgement, other people are called upon for that. I'll just mention some questions that are being repeated so much: Does our legislation protect the small guy's business, or the interest groups and the chains of the powerful capital? Why do so many attempts made in good faith end up being confronted by incomprehensible obstacles and then people discouragingly have to give up? Is Croatian society facing up, institutionally, seriously, and politically, effectively to the demographic crisis we're experiencing?'' asked Bozanić.

Plenković said that it's always good to hear encouragement, and that three messages of conscience, hope, and remaining in the Republic of Croatia are something we all share, before noting that demographic problems in Croatia aren't something new.

"This trend is inherent to many countries in Europe, which is one of the fundamental issues, and yesterday we spent some time talking about that, you have huge demographic plus trends in the countries of Africa and the Middle East, where there is a completely different situation, there is such a poverty that everyone would cry out to have the standard we have in Croatia,'' stated Plenković, rather unhelpfully.

Well, as insulting and totally unnecessary as the prime minister's rather unusual comment was, it seems he might not be far wrong, at least according to Sim Shagaya on Twitter, And yes, that is sarcasm.

Whatever will Plenky come out with next? Stay tuned.