Slovenia News 31 January 2006

President Janez Drnovsek stepped up his global peace drive this week, appearing on news network CNN to drum up support for his Darfur appeal and then holding a press conference to announce plans for a global altruistic movement. Meanwhile, the debates on plans to transform Slovenia's lone mutual insurer, Vzajemna, into a joint-stock company reached boiling point this week, with parliament deciding to block the re-incorporation by adopting an interpretive statement that makes any transformation subject to permission from the Insurance Supervision Agency. Speaking to the CNN about his Darfur initiative on Monday, Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek said that geopolitical interests of the UN Security Council's permanent members were the key reasons behind the powerlessness of the humanitarian efforts in the embattled Sudanese region. More » The US State Department has welcomed the recent initiative by President Janez Drnovsek on building a camp for 10,000 Sudanese refugees. More » Slovenia was very successful in revitalising and improving the cooperation within the OSCE, reads the final report on the country's 2005 stint as OSCE chair that the cabinet discussed on Thursday. More » MPs were virtually unanimous on Wednesday in adopting an interpretative statement of article 62 of the health insurance act, thus effectively preventing the re-incorporation of mutual insurer Vzajemna as a joint-stock company, which was scheduled for 1 February. More » Slovenia will change over to the common European currency as planned on 1 January 2007, with or without anybody else, Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk said at the fringes of a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels on Tuesday. More » According to unofficial results of a consultative referendum held in several different parts of the country, voters backed at least 12 new municipalities on Sunday on a turnout of around 60%. More » The European Commission has assessed Slovenian plans for implementing reforms related to the Lisbon Strategy as suitable in general, but with a number of flaws. More » Slovenia received EUR 59.37m from four cohesion funds in 2005, according to data published by the European Commission on Thursday. More » Two years after the decision on establishing sea motorways within the trans-European transport network (TEN-T), the time has come to take concrete steps, European Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot told the participants of the first conference on sea motorways in Ljubljana on Tuesday. More » Slovenia joined worldwide celebrations in honour of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 27 January with a series of events featuring the works of this musical genius. More » A Slovenian physicist has accidentally come by a 440-year-old copy of Copernicus' most famous book in a library in Ljubljana. More » Anzej Dezan has won the EMA, the competition which decides Slovenia's entry for the European song contest, with a love song "Plan B". More » Schedule of Events from 31 January to 5 February More »

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