Slovenia News 18 October 2005

Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel last week answered Croatia's proposal for arbitration on the sea border between the countries, saying that the countries must establish trust before they can seek third-party assistance. In other news, Slovenia began stockpiling an antiviral drug as it stepped up preparations for a possible pandemic of bird flu. Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel replied to the proposal for arbitration sent last week by Croatian FM Kolinda Grabar Kitarovic by saying that arbitration can only be carried out if there is complete mutual trust. More » Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel believes that countries of the Western Balkans should join the EU as soon as possible. Croatia, which recently started accession talks, "is only a part of the mosaic that we are completing to fill the gap between Slovenia and Greece," he said on Tuesday. More » Finnish President Tarja Halonen, told the press on Tuesday, 11 October, that reestablishing the trust in the EU, weakened after the double rejection of the European constitution, is now of key importance to its member states. More » Finland's ability to adapt to modern global trends presents an interesting role model for Slovenia, Prime Minister Janez Jansa said after meeting Finland's President Tarja Halonen in Ljubljana on Tuesday. More » The cross-border projects undertaken by Italy and Slovenia under EU's Phare programme of cross-border cooperation for 2002 were carried out successfully, head of the regional development agency for northern Primorsko Crtomir Spacapan said on Friday. More » Engrotus is the winner of the 2005 Golden Gazelle award for the fastest growing company in Slovenia. The Celje-based retailer received the prize on Wednesday as the fastest-growing retailer in the country, and the most rapidly expanding enterprise on the consumer goods market overall. More » Slovenian managers have endorsed the government's proposed package of economic and social reforms, according to PM Janez Jansa, who presented the reforms on Thursday. "They all supported the course of reforms, but there are various views on measures that have a different impact on different industries" Jansa told the press after the meeting. More » The 15th international eChallenges conference, taking place in the Slovenian capital from 19 through 21 October, will discuss modern information and communication technologies. More » In the first quarter of 2005, 48% of all Slovenian households had Internet access, with 50% of the population aged between 10 and 74 years regularly using the Internet, shows data released by the national Statistical Office. More » Slovenia supports the new initiatives for improved phasing of structural and cohesion funds, prepared by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank, Minister of Local Government and Regional Policy Ivan Zagar said in Brussels on Tuesday. More » State Secretary for European Affairs Marcel Koprol told STA on Thursday he was happy with the work of Slovenian representatives in Macedonia on the twinning project to strengthen Macedonia's institutions and adapt legislation on the internal market. More » Addressing participants of the 12th summit of presidents of Central European countries in Zagreb on Friday, Slovenia's President Janez Drnovsek underlined the importance of further EU enlargement as a means of preventing new divisions. More » An exhibition of works by Finnish designer Tapio Wirkkala, who is considered as the father of Finnish applied arts, opened at the Ljubljana Architecture Museum on Tuesday. More » A survey of values has shown that values in Slovenia are very similar to those of Germans and Scandinavians. "Our paradigms are the same as the dominant paradigms of European culture," according to the co-author of the book on the subject, Niko Tos. More » The number of children that learn Slovenian in the Austrian border province of Carinthia has grown considerably in the 2005/2006 school year, the region's education council said on Friday. More » Health Minister Andrej Brucan announced that Slovenia is in the process of creating a stockpile of the anti-viral drug Tamiflu that would suffice for about a quarter of the population in the event that the current strain of the avian flu virus mutates into a form easily transmitted between people. More » Schedule of Events from 18 to 23 October More »

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