Slovenia News 28 November 2006

Prime Minister Janez Jansa paid a working visit to Finland, stressing the importance of the timely launch of the Schengen Information System II (SIS II) for Slovenia in talks with his host and counterpart Matti Vanhanen and added that the enlargement of the EU to the Western Balkans would be one of the main topics not only of the December EU summit, but also of Slovenia's EU presidency in the first half of 2008. Protests continued amidst the search for a new location for the Strojan family, with people living in places that were rumoured to become the Strojan's new home organising watches to prevent their potential arrival. More » A group of people who were crossed out from Slovenia's population registry in 1992 set on a journey to Brussels on Monday to "show the EU what kind of legacy Slovenia brought to the block". Speaking on behalf of the group, Anton Debevec explained that Slovenia's erased now became the erased of the EU. More » Forensics started on Monday with exhumation works at a concealed post-WWII mass grave which was found a week ago during works on the construction site of a future motorway in Gorenjsko. More » Honouring Rudolf Maister Day, a holiday marking the day in 1918 when General Rudolf Maister took control of Maribor and in effect secured what later became Slovenia's northern border, Defence Minister Karl Erjavec laid a wreath on the general's monument at the entrance to the Defence Ministry building on Thursday. More » President Janez Drnovsek conferred on Thursday high state decorations on military staff who were instrumental in Slovenia's independence war of 1991, including two former chiefs-of-staff, Ladislav Lipic and Iztok Podbregar. More » Prime Minister Janez Jansa paid a working visit to Finland, stressing the importance of the timely launch of the Schengen Information System II (SIS II) for Slovenia in talks with his host and counterpart Matti Vanhanen. More » Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel has reassured his Serbian counterpart Vuk Draskovic of Slovenia's support for democratic Serbia and its European future. "I cannot imagine an EU without Serbia. The EU needs Serbia too," Rupel said after meeting Draskovic in Ljubljana on Tuesday. More » President Drnovsek received on Wednesday the credentials of the new French Ambassador to Slovenia, Chantal de Ghaisne de Bourmont, and the non-resident North Korean Ambassador, Kim Kwang Sop. More » Slovenia sees Austria as a role model in tackling court backlogs and the speedy resolution of court cases, Justice Minister Lovro Sturm told the press on the sidelines of a visit by his Austrian counterpart Karin Gastinger in Ljubljana on Thursday. More » Governor of the Austrian province of Carinthia Joerg Haider angered Slovenia on Wednesday by replacing yet another bilingual town limits sign with a German-language sign that contains a separate inscription of the Slovenian name of the village. More » Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel wrote Tuesday a letter to his Austrian counterpart Ursula Plassnik, expressing his worries over a recent event when Austria's local political representatives and uniformed federal officials left a new municipal building during its bilingual consecration. More » The Slovenian cabinet confirmed on Thursday amendments to the railways act whose aim is to restructure the sector by setting up a new regulatory body and turning the Slovenian Railways into a single company again. More » The government on Thursday adopted a semi-annual report on preparations for the EU presidency in the first half of 2008 which says that preparations are on track and Slovenia will be ready by 1 January 2008. The cabinet also endorsed the draft programme of the successive presidencies of Germany, Portugal and Slovenia, which is to be adopted at the EU Council in December. More » The government gave the go-ahead on Thursday the deployment of the 10th motorised battalion to Kosovo, where it will be operating from March to September next year as part of the NATO-led KFOR peace-keeping mission. More » The government endorsed on Thursday Slovenia's participation in the purchase of four C-17 military transport aircraft together with 14 other NATO members, the Government PR and Media Office said in Thursday's press release. More » The cabinet adopted on Thursday a bill on the financial instruments market. According to Finance Minister Andrej Bajuk, the bill transposes four EU directives and tackles various transitional specifics of the Slovenian capital market. More » The government on Thursday adopted the bill on the Roma, which is designed to comprehensively regulate the status of the Roma in Slovenia based on positive discrimination and is required by Article 65 of the Constitution. More » Prime Minister Janez Jansa filed in parliament on Friday a motion to dismiss Minister of Labour, Family and Social Affairs Janez Drobnic after he publicly defied Jansa's request to step down over failures at his ministry. More » The parliament passed on Thursday a package of public procurement laws, including the framework act on public-private partnership which is designed to boost private investment in infrastructure projects. More » The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously passed the new banking act, which introduces stricter and more complex mechanisms for capital adequacy in line with what is known as the Basel II standards. More » The act on the euro, which defines the procedures during Slovenia's changeover to the euro as a national currency on 1 January 2007, enters into force on Friday. More » The British investment fund Salford is expected to conclude its due diligence at dairy Ljubljanske mlekarne on Friday. This means that negotiations on the takeover of Slovenia's leading dairy could begin in about two weeks, a Salford representative said. More » Slovenia believes that fresh investment and systematic funding are the essential components of efforts to boost energy efficiency, in addition to a uniform interpretation of regulations on state aid for energy efficiency projects, a Slovenian official said Thursday after a meeting of EU energy ministers. More » The EU's budget framework for 2007-2013 offers good possibilities for Slovenian farming, agricultural consultants agreed on Monday at a meeting entitled "How to Efficiently Use the Money Offered by the EU". More » Household appliance makers Gorenje and BSH hisni aparati, chemical company Regeneracija and electronics company F3 are the recipients of this year's environment excellence awards, handed out on Monday by the business daily Finance, Slovenia's Eco Fund and the Environment Agency. More » Klinicni Center (KC), the Ljubljana-based university hospital, is to introduce next year the artificial heart method to treat patients with heart failure. More » Three of Slovenia's highest ranking Roman Catholic Church dignitaries called for a greater role for the lay congregation in spreading Church values in society at a conference in Maribor on Monday. More » Fifteen years have passed since research institution Jozef Stefan Institute (IJS) established an internet connection with the Dutch Institute for Physics and Mathematics (NIKHEF). This was the first internet connection in Slovenia and one of only 200 internet points of that time. More » Slovenia is following the EU in reforming its cohesion policy, as witnessed by the National Development Strategy that follows the goals of the Lisbon Strategy to the fullest possible extent, Local Self-Government and Regional Policy Minister Ivan Zagar has said. More » Four Slovenian military instructors who are training security forces in Iraq will stay there in 2007, Defence Minister Karl Erjavec told the press in Ljubljana on Wednesday as he presented the ministry's activities in the past year. More » Defence Minister Karl Erjavec visited ski equipment manufacturer Elan on Friday and discussed its potentials in production of military equipment for Slovenia and the rest of NATO. More » Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek delves into the potential development of NATO in the latest posting on the website of his Movement for Justice and Development. He believes that NATO is not and must never be an "armed force of capital" which some have accused it of being, however, it can become a "common force of advanced humanity". More » Parliament passed in emergency procedure on Thursday an act on approval and state guarantee for a EUR 300m loan that the Slovenian Motorway Company (DARS) is to take out with the European Investment Bank (EIB). More » Package delivery company UPS launched on Tuesday a daily cargo flight from its hub in Cologne to Ljubljana international airport in Brnik that is part of efforts to turn the airport into a regional logistics centre. More » Conductor Karmina Silec, who has won world acclaim with her Carmina Slovenia choir project, and Maribor-based band Kebataola are set to present a new project entitled Miracles. It involves the works of Estonian composer Arvo Paert and mediaeval music pieces. More » Slovenians have a high level of trust in police as an institution and feel safe in their communities. However, the effectiveness and the local presence of police forces could be improved, according to the results of a public opinion survey presented at the Police Academy in Tacen on Wednesday. More » Slovenia's top cross-country skier Petra Majdic won the sprint event in Finland's Kuusamo on Saturday. More » Slovenia has a rich sports tradition and the facilities, to organise the 2011 Winter Universiade, International University Sports Federation (FISU) Secretary General Roch Campana said on Tuesday as a FISU delegation inspected Maribor's bid to host the sports event. More » The district of Spodnje Podravje in NE Slovenia is hoping to become a new tourist force in Slovenia through the realisation of two projects from the resolution on national development projects for 2007-2023. More » Culture Minister Vasko Simoniti and Igor Bavcar, CEO of food, energy and tourism holding Istrabenz, laid a foundation stone on Tuesday in a symbolic gesture marking the renovation of the Palace Hotel. The investors expect that the hotel will reopen in the spring of 2008. More » Schedule of Events from 28 November to 3 December More »

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