The Croatian parliament yesterday passed the golf law, which was drafted by a law firm that represents a number of investors in golf courses throughout Istria, including the one in Motovun. It provides the investors with all the weapons of eminent domain, which the local government can wield against all those who do not want to sell their land at the right price. Golf is now raised to the level of a strategic national interest, and the new law got the same treatment in the parliament. The prime minister and his government pushed it through at a clip as though it was about national defense rather than a mere sport, no matter how posh. In short, the Istrian golf lobby is victorious once again. And how. With the golf law behind it, it is free to go about golf development on the peninsula as it pleases. Any further resistance to unsustainable golf in Motovun is now meaningless. As well as dangerous to all those who persist in it against all odds, for the Croatian national interests are at stake. Amen.