In his first official press conference since the new Slovenian cabinet took office, Prime Minister Janez Jansa expressed hope that the start of EU accession talks with Croatia would present Slovenia and Croatia with a new framework for solving bilateral open issues. In other news, the Slovenian government appointed a new head for the special task force that is overseeing Slovenia's presidency of the OSCE.
Redarding the implementation of a comprehensive tax reform, which is due on 1 January 2005, it will not be put off even if the government's advisory economic council on Friday proposed its one-year freezing.
On Thursday 23 December, Prime Minister Janez Jan¹a appointed the Strategic Council for Economic Development, which will be headed by economist Dr. Miæo Mrkaiæ. At the last parliamentary session the council made a decision to propose that the Government delay the implementation of tax reforms. More »
The start of Croatia's accession talks with the EU, which are to begin on 17 March, represents a new framework for solving Slovenian-Croatian open issues. The rules of conduct observed in the EU include abstention from unilateral moves such as was Croatia's declaration of the ecological and fisheries zone, PM Janez Jansa told the press on Tuesday. More »
The implementation of a comprehensive tax reform, which is due on 1 January 2005, will not be put off even if the government's advisory economic council on Friday proposed its one-year freezing. More »
The Janez Jansa government has taken its turn in office with high 69.2 percent support of the public, shows the regular monthly opinion poll of the daily Dnevnik. The new MPs also enjoy high public support, while policies of the new government are not favoured by 20 percent of respondents. More »
The Constitutional Court held a ceremony celebrating Constitutional Day, which marks 13 years since the Slovenian assembly adopted the first Constitution of the independent Slovenia. More »
Fourteen years to date, Slovenians overwhelmingly voted for independence in a referendum. The official results - 88.5% of the ballots were in favour - were released three days later and 26 December has been marked as Independence Day ever since. More »
A former Slovenian foreign minister has been appointed by the government to head a special task force that will oversee Slovenia's presidency of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2005. More »
Non-residential Japanese Ambassador to Slovenia Itaru Umezu, who was on Monday received by Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, announced that Japan was planning to open an embassy in Ljubljana at the beginning of 2006. More »
The government has appointed members of the strategic council for economic development, a newly-established advisory body that will discuss strategic issues of Slovenia's development. The council will be headed by economist Mico Mrkaic, an advocate of liberalisation and the state's withdrawal from the economy. More »
The Ljubljana Stock Exchange (LJSE) was established on 26 December 1989, after two new federal laws enabled such a move in the centrally-planned economy in the former Yugoslavia. The Ljubljana stock market was the first stock exchange to be set up in any socialist country, a move that came only a day before Belgrade got its own stock exchange and six months before the stock markets were set up in Hungary and China. More »
Slovenia's best woman skier Tina Maze has finished first at the Women's World Cup giant slalom event in Switzerland's St. Moritz in what is the second World Cup win in her career. More »