Bajuk Chosen European Financial Minister of the Year

Ljubljana, 23 December

Slovenia's Andrej Bajuk has been chosen Financial Minister of the Year for Europe by The Banker magazine, a publication of the Financial Times Group.

The leader of the coalition New Slovenia (NSi) earned the award through his contribution to Slovenia's euro changeover preparations and his fiscal policy and tax reform efforts, NSi's press release said on Friday.
"I's extremely happy, it's an important award", Bajuk commented at a press conference, and added that the achievements that earned him the award cannot be contributed to him alone.
"I couldn't have received this award without the cooperation and support of all of the ministry's employees, the government and the Bank of Slovenia," he said.
Last-year's Minister of the Year for Europe was Russia's Alexei Kudrin.
According to the press release, the names of this-year's award winners are to be published in the January issue of The Banker.
Other regional award winners include Uruguayan Finance Minister Danilo Astori for the Americas region, Cameroon's Polycarpe Abah Abah for Africa, Qatar's Yousef Hussain Kamal for the Middle East and Indian Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram for Asia.

Bajuk Chosen European Financial Minister of the Year

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