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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