Slovenia News - July 2005

Slovenia News 26 July 2005

Following a controversy over how many regions Slovenia should get divided into, party leaders decided it would remain a single cohesion region until the end of the year. Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, the OSCE chairman, is pleased with the achievements of the first seven months of Slovenia's chairmanship. The organisation has a budget and a new secretary general, and reform talks are under way, Rupel told the press on Monday. Slovenia should remain one cohesion region until this represents a better option in negotiations on the 2007-2013 budget framework, agreed top party officials at a meeting with PM Janez Jansa on Wednesday. More » Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel, the OSCE chairman, is pleased with the achievements of the first seven months of Slovenia's chairmanship. The organisation has a budget and a new secretary general, and reform talks are under way, Rupel told the press on Monday. More » EU Ambassador to Slovenia Erwan Fouere on Monday paid a farewell visit to Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel at the end of his term. The officials discussed current EU topics, with Rupel thanking Fouere for his efforts and personal commitment to help Slovenia, the Foreign Ministry said in a press release. More » The government has decided that Slovenia will sign the United Nations Convention against Nuclear Terrorism. According to plans, President Janez Drnovsek will sign the document when he attends the UN General Assembly in September. More » The Croatian spa Terme Tuhelj, owned by the Slovenian spa Terme Olimia since 2003, opened a new water park on Tuesday in what is one of the biggest and most modern thermal and water centres in Croatia, Terme Olimia has said. More » The Slovenian company Seaway, owner of the Scandinavian boat trade mark Shipman, launched its sailing yacht Shipman 63 in the Portoroz marina on Tuesday. "This is one of the greatest technological achievements for Slovenia," Science and Technology Minister Jure Zupan commented for STA. More » A 39-member unit of the Slovenian Armed Forces will be heading to Afghanistan at the end of July in what is the country's largest contingent to take part in the ISAF peacekeeping mission so far. More » "Alamut", a landmark 1938 novel in which Slovenian author Vladimir Bartol portrayed radical Islam, will be put on stage for the first time ever at this year's Salzburg Summer Festival, due to begin on 25 July. More »

Slovenia News - 19 July 2005

Despite the regular summer traffic jams at Slovenian roads and clear signs that it's time for holidays, the OSCE Precidency goes on without interruption. There are still many important topics to discuss prior to the summit meeting in December. Prime Minister Janez Janša met with representatives of the Students' Organisation of Slovenia (ŠOU). More » The world's largest credit rating house, Dun&Bradstreet, placed Slovenia firmly in first place in the region in its July report, with its rating again on the increase. More » At the end of 2004 1,997,590 people were living in Slovenia – or 0.06 percent more than at the end of 2003. More » In his role as the chairman-in-office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Slovenia's foreign minister Dr Rupel held a meeting in Ljubljana with the UN Administrator for Kosovo, Søren Jessen-Petersen. More » Slovenian foreign minister Dr Dimitrij Rupel, in his role as Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE, met the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov. They discussed international terrorism, developments in Central Asia and Moldova, the future of Kosovo and the reform of the OSCE. More » Films by director Damjan Kozole will be screened in North America this summer in what will be the biggest presentation of Slovenian film to American audiences. More » It is now possible to travel to Croatia via the new Podgorje-Jelovice road border crossing. This border crossing will be open to international traffic and at the height of the tourist season will perhaps help ease transport links with our southern neighbours. More »

Slovenia News - 12 July 2005

Slovenian foreign minister Dr Dimitrij Rupel said Ljubljana Conclusions is a document that expresses the desire of statesmen, international organisations, non-governmental organisations, experts, children's ombudsmen, and children that everyone should do everything in their power to eradicate violence against children. A truly important step. But one must not forget the tragedy that other forms of violence bring into our everyday lives. We are speaking about terrorism that Slovenia's leaders unanimously condemn. Slovenia's leaders have issued a unanimous condemnation of the terrorist attack in London. The Prime Minister, Janez Janša, said that there was no justification for such attacks, and the Foreign Minister, Dr Dimitrij Rupel called on Slovenian citizens to be vigilant. According to the information available at present no Slovenian citizens fell victim to the attacks. More » Dr Rupel, the Slovenian foreign minister and president-in-office of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) issued a statement to mark the tenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre that honoured the victims of the tragic event. More » The Government has approved guidelines for a draft budget memorandum for 2006-2010, which will form the basis for preparing the draft 2006-2007 national budget. More » The fifth All Slovenian Meeting was held at the National Assembly on Thursday 7 July, hosted by the National Assembly Committee for Relations with Slovenes Abroad. Participants were welcomed by France Cukjati – President of the Assembly, Janez Kramberger – the chair of the committee, Franc Pukšič – the state secretary for Slovenes abroad, and the writer Alojz Rebula. More » The regional consultation for the UN study on violence against children held in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, came to a conclusion on Thursday 7 July with the adoption of the Ljubljana Conclusions. More » This summer from 13 to 22 July 2005 the Cankarjev Dom cultural and congress centre will play host to the Slovenian National Theatre's SUMMER OF OPERA AND BALLET. The Ljubljana Opera and Ballet will be performing Verdi's world famous operas La Traviata and Il Trovatore in the Gallus concert hall, as well as Die Rheinnixen by Offenbach, which had its world premiere in Ljubljana this spring, and Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake. More » The Cankarjev Dom Gallery tonight opened its exhibition of miniature works on paper by Zoran Mušič (1909-2005). The exhibited works are from the collection of Lia and Maurizio Zaneio from Trieste and will be on display until 11 September. More » On Saturday at noon local hunters fired cannons near the Najevska linden tree on Ludranski Vrh, a hill above Črna na Koroškem to mark the start of the 15th anniversary meeting of statesmen beneath the tree. There is a tradition of political debates being held beneath linden trees in this part of the world, and this is Slovenia's oldest linden. More »

Slovenia News - 5 July 2005

Last week the Government passed the decree implementing the Act on Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment and Company Internationalisation. The decree sets out the theoretical and practical background to allocating financial incentives. Alongside political debates, there is a conference on violence against children held in Ljubljana and numerous festivals are taking place around Slovenia; the biggest among them the Ljubljana Summer Festival. Over 150 representatives from 27 countries attended the international conference of the Nato-Russia Council to discuss terrorism and to determine ways to strengthen cooperation to prevent terrorist acts and their consequences. More » The Hungarian foreign minister, Mr Ferenc Somogyi, has paid an official visit to Slovenia, at the invitation of Dr Rupel, the Slovenian foreign minister. More » The ministerial term of the Prime Minister, Janez Janša, has visited the Savinjsko-Šaleška region as part of a series of visits to different Slovenian regions intended to contribute to the polycentric development and decentralisation of the country. More » At its final June session, the Government passed the Decree implementing the Act on Incentives for Foreign Direct Investment and Company Internationalisation. More » The Government has appointed Jože Romšek from the Ministry of Transport as the new Director General of the Police. More » On 30 June the national statistics office reported that consumer prices in Slovenia were 0.1 per cent higher in June than in May. More » Following a meeting of the ruling coalition's leadership, the Prime Minister, Janez Janša, assessed that it had functioned well during its first six months. More » The Republic of Slovenia will host two separate, yet thematically related events focusing on the violence and sexual abuse of children: UN's regional consultation on violence against children for Europe and central Asia entitled "Stop Violence Against Children. Act Now!", and Council of Europe's conference entitled "Yokohama Review for Europe and Central Asia - Combating Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children", between July 4th and 9th 2005 in the Union Hotel in Ljubljana. More » The 40th Karlovy Vary international film festival in the Czech Republic opened on 1 July, and will show 220 films and 40 short films from all over the world until the end of the festival on 9 July. The More » The 53rd Ljubljana Summer Festival opened its doors on Monday. A total of 62 events of different genres ranging from opera, ballet, and dance performances to symphonic, chamber, vocal, ethno, jazz and Latino concerts, exhibitions, artistic communities will take place. For the second consecutive year people will be able to enjoy "Cinema Beneath the Stars" an open-air cinema at Ljubljana Castle. The festival is organised by Ljubljana Festival and will take place between 4 July and 18 August. More » Slovenians that live around the world traditionaly gathered the first weekend in July at several events around Slovenia. More » Slovenian athletes set out off to the 2005 Mediterranean Games in Spain aiming to do better than at the last Med Games in Tunis, and are now returning from Spain with a 35 medal haul, 15 more than they won four years ago. More »

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