Slovenia News 21 March 2006

Prime Minister Janez Jansa and his host and counterpart Angela Merkel made a joint call in Berlin on Wednesday, 15 March, for the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy which is to enhance the development of Europe. Jansa, paying a one-day official visit to Germany, stressed that Slovenia was already trying "to implement a key part of the Lisbon Strategy" with the government-sponsored economic and social reforms. Meanwhile, Slovenia's plans to adopt the euro next year got a big boost as the European Commission granted the country's request for an early report on readiness for eurozone membership. Prime Minister Janez Jansa and his host and counterpart Angela Merkel made a joint call in Berlin on Wednesday for the implementation of the Lisbon Strategy which is to enhance the development of Europe. More » Guenter Verheugen, the European commissioner for enterprise and industry, has expressed satisfaction with Slovenia's reform programme after talks with Development Minister Joze P. Damijan. "I am very pleased with the information I got, the country is on track," he said in Brussels on Thursday. More » Italy must follow Slovenia's example and open its archives on WWII fascist terror, the mayors of the Slovenian border town of Nova Gorica (W) and Italy's Gorizia, Mirko Brulc and Vittorio Brancati said in Nova Gorica on Wednesday. More » The Slovenian Foreign Ministry has announced plans to establish a strategic forum in cooperation with NGO's in the coming summer. An international conference titled "Southern Caucasus 2008" to take place on 27 and 28 August will be the first event organised by the forum. More » The parliamentary foreign policy and EU affairs committees endorsed on Friday the amended government proposal on Slovenia's activities in EU institutions in 2006. More » A meeting of labour and social affairs ministers from Italy, Slovenia, Hungary and Croatia on Friday yielded an announcement by Italian Labour Minister Roberto Maroni that he is to sign bilateral agreements with Slovenia and Hungary on free flow of labour. More » Slovenia will continue to participate in international peacekeeping missions, said Defence Minister Karl Erjavec, and added that it intended to take part in the EU mission to support peace in DR Congo and Sudan's Dafur. More » Economics Minister Andrej Vizjak said that he wants Slovenia to become an entry point for Swedish companies in their expansion to the Balkans, after holding talks with Swedish Industry Minister Thomas Ostros in Stockholm on Tuesday. More » European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Joaquin Almunia has announced that the European Commission will publish the euro convergence report for Slovenia on 16 May, which would give the country enough time to carry out all the preparations for eurozone entry on 1 January 2007. More » Slovenian PM Janez Jansa has said that the views of the Belgian banking and insurance group KBC and the government on the privatisation of Slovenia's largest bank, NLB, are gradually converging. More » Slovenian Development Minister Joze P. Damijan has reiterated his position that the state should downsize its stake in Nova Ljubljanska banka (NLB) to roughly 25% and offer the rest to strategic partners and portfolio investors. More » European Science and Research Commissioner Janez Potocnik said on Friday that Slovenia is on track for the planned 2007 euro changeover, but should pay attention to the long-term sustainability of public finances. More » The bird flu outbreak means every ninth inhabitant of Slovenia is eating less poultry meat, according to a survey conducted by the polling firm CATI between 9 and 13 March. More » The University of Ljubljana signed a long-term cooperation agreement with Slovenia's premier research institution, the Jozef Stefan Institute, in Ljubljana on Thursday. More » Slovenia expressed its interest in the planned implementation of the EU's framework qualification recognition programme, which would also include the Western Balkans and other states in the region, Education Minister Milan Zver said in Vienna on Friday. More » The Slovenian official attending the meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels on Tuesday said that Slovenia supports all key facets of the proposed European energy policy. More » According to a recent agreement reached by EU nations, the three EU members to chair the bloc successively beginning with 2007, among them Slovenia, are to present a joint 18-month plan by December at the latest to have it finally approved by EU foreign ministers. More » Slovenia is one of the EU members which has shown the most pluck in carrying out the Lisbon Strategy by drafting the government-sponsored economic and social reforms, Development Minister Joze P. Damijan said in Brussels on Thursday. More » Slovenian PM Janez Jansa expressed his scepticism towards a Wednesday's European Parliament proposal to establish a new category of states in the EU accession process, as he gave an interview for Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), published on Thursday. More » As part of the promotion of Slovenian literature at the Leipzig Book Fair, which was opening on Thursday, Slovenia was presenting a Bibliography of Translations of Slovenian Literature into German. More » Meeting his Slovenian counterpart Lovro Sturm in Ljubljana on Friday, Luxembourg Justice Minister Luc Frieden said Slovenia's measures targeting the court backlog were a step in the right direction. More » The long-term director of the Slovenian Alpine Skiing Fund, Tone Vogrinec, received the Viktor for lifetime achievement at a gala ceremony at arts centre Cankarjev dom in Ljubljana on Saturday evening. More » Slovenia's Mitja Petkovsek won gold on parallel bars at the Gymnastics World Cup meet in Lyon on Sunday. More » Finnish ski-jumper Janne Happonen took the win at the last World Cup meet of the season on the the giant ski-flying hill at Planica on Sunday. More » The number of tourists visiting Ljubljana last year was 313,493, which is an increase of 50% over the last three years. The number of overnight stays was 565,649 an increase of 38% over the same period. More » Schedule of Events from 21 to 26 March More »

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