25 posts
Slovenia is embarrassing
Reading that Slovenia continues to block the accession talks of Croatia due to nationalistic considerations is totally embarrassing. I thought that with the agreement between both countries earlier this year this kind of things would have ended...
Croatia, Slovenia Bury Border Dispute
Slovenia and Croatia have reached an agreement on their long-running border dispute, a move that will allow Croatia to continue its European Union accession talks. READ MORE...
Breakthrough on the Border Dispute between Slovenia and Croatia
Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor has announced that the negotiations on the settlement of the border dispute between Slovenia and Croatia would resume with EU mediation. He also said that the Slovenian government would propose to the parliament t...
Good news from Slovenia and Croatia
This friday the Slovenian Prime Minister announced that Slovenia will lift its veto against EU accession of Croatia over the two countries’ dispute on the border in the Adriatic Sea. Talks on settling the dispute will, however, continue with in...
Slovenia Has a Better Second Quarter, But the Slump Continues
Sovenian GDP fell by 9.3 percent in the second quarter of this year when compared to the second quarter of 2008. This was the third quarter in a row which has seen a fall in Slovene GDP, and the was the deepest annual drop so far in the current econo...
Slovenia | Conflict with Croatia
Slovenia's European election campaign missed any European aspects stated an Austrian newspaper. As in other member states, the financial crisis was a big deal. Moreover, unsolved border issues with Croatia dominated, as usual, the discussions. These...
To Sum Up: We will do More for Everyone. From Slovenia with Pair of Gloves! [tanjakovacic]
Catchy slogans present another aspect of political campaigning with which political parties address their potential voters. Usually they attract people’s attention if they are inventive and different. In the case of the EP elections, they can also...
Facebook: Searching for Candidates… [tanjakovacic]
Youth Party of Slovenia (SMS), a member of the European Greens, decided to look for their MEP candidates with a help of the Facebook. The reasons for such a decision are explained on their web site with the following words (my personal translation):...
No Big Surprises [tanjakovacic]
Approximately two months before the EP elections some new names among the candidates for EP election appeared in the Slovenian media. The picture is more or less complete, even though some of the parties still have to present their candidate lists. T...
Slovenia’s Economy Falls Off The Roof, While Slovakia Slides Into Recession
“Most other countries in the region are faring much better, though….Like Slovenia, which joined two years ago, Slovakia can enjoy the full protection of rich Europe’s currency union, rather than just the indirect benefit of being due to...
Slovenia vs Croatia: echo of past
The Slovenian and Croatian foreign ministers, meeting yesterday with EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, failed to agree on EU mediation to overcome a border row that threatens to delay Croatia’s plans to conclude EU accession talks by the e...
Croatia Accepts EU Mediation with Slovenia
Croatia accepted an EU proposal to set up an expert group that would help solve its border dispute with Slovenia. At the same time Croatia stressed that such a group should lead to the issue eventually being brought before the International Court of...
All, except Slovenia
Poland has organised a get-together of central and eastern European member states at its diplomatic mission in Brussels on Sunday. It is to be a small informal conflab on the economic crisis before the big informal conflab on the economic crisis. Eve...
Slovenia : Croatia – a lose-lose game
So, we are heading towards an full-scale diplomatic war among Slovenia and Croatia. Which is a pity. If Slovenian really blocks the progress of negotiations with Croatia, this will do no good to our bilateral relations and also will not bring us clos...
Pahor employs Rupel – open to criticism
I have been rather silent of Slovenian politics recently. One of the reasons is that there is a brilliant blog about Slovenian politics in English by Pengovsky and I enjoyed reading it, instead of writing on my own. And I’ve been unusually lazy...
Waiting for Godot in Slovenian politics
The formation of the new government is in these days the biggest news in the Slovenian media. Parliamentary elections, which were held on 21st of September 2008, have brought changes on the Slovenian political horizon. The slight difference between S...
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Looks like a nice little place. The Ljubljanica River runs through the downtown of Slovenia’s capital, “with pedestrian walkways on either side, lined with restaurants and shops.” Image credit: Philip Bouchard; under cc-by-nc-nd...
The forgotten election: Slovenia
This week saw a plethora of electoral activity across Europe. Thus, A fistful of Euros has covered elections in Austria, Belarus, and Bavaria, Germany. The Belarus election selection was also discussed by Julien Frisch here and myself here. Wha...
Slovenia blunders with nuke incident (update)
A nuclear accident seems to have effectively brought an end to the first European Union presidency of a new EU member state. Slovenia, due to hand over the presidency to France at the end of this month, has been caught lying on the seriousness of an...
