Slovenia News 29 August 2007

The Bled Strategic Forum 2007 started on Sunday 26 August at the renowned Slovene lakeside resort, bringing together the Prime Ministers of Croatia, Lithuania, Macedonia and Slovenia, the President of Georgia, the special envoy for the UN Martti Ahtisaari, and many other ministers, government officials, business executives and academics from 50 countries. The two-days conference, themed "European Union 2020 Enlarging and Integrating", focussed on the EU's further enlargement, the future of the bloc, global balance of power, climate change and energy security, issues that are closely related to priorities of Slovenia's presidency in the first half of 2008. In this issue, we also write about the important meeting between Prime Ministers Janez Jansa and Ivo Sanader, which discussed in Bled open issues between Croatia and Slovenia, and agreed in principle to resolve the outstanding border issue before the International Court of Justice in the Hague. Slovenia will open consulates in Belgium's Mechelen, Turkey's Antalya, the Mexican capital Ciudad de Mexico, and Japan's Kumamoto. The decision was taken at Thursday's government session. More » Economy Minister Andrej Vizjak and his Azeri colleague Ali Abbasov signed on Tuesday in Ljubljana an agreement on cooperation in the field of information and communication technology (ICT), the Economy Ministry has said. More » Economy Minister Andrej Vizjak discussed on Wednesday in Ljubljana economic cooperation between Japan and Slovenia with Masaji Matsuyama, Japanese parliamentary secretary for economy, trade and industry, the Economy Ministry said in a press release. More » Slovenia and Croatia have decided to try and resolve their border dispute at the International Court of Justice in The Hague. There is consensus in principle that the land as well as the sea border would be the subject of arbitration, Prime Minister Janez Jansa said after reaching the agreement with his Croatian counterpart Ivo Sanader on Sunday. More » Prime Minister Janez Jansa met his Lithuanian counterpart Gediminas Kirkilas in Bled on Saturday, when the pair agreed to intensify cooperation in the EU-related issues, in particular during Slovenia's spell as EU president next year. More » Prime Minister Janez Jansa held bilateral meetings with his Macedonian opposite number Nikola Gruevski and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Sunday, Jansa's office said. More » Economy Minister Andrej Vizjak and his Croatian counterpart Branko Vukelic discussed on Tuesday open issues concerning the jointly-owned Krsko Nuclear Power Plant (NEK), agreeing that the issues be solved by mutual consent, in the spirit of good neighbourly relations and in accordance with EU standards. More » Relations between the EU and India, multilateral issues and bilateral relations topped the agenda as Foreign Ministry State Secretary Andrej Ster held talks on Tuesday with Secretary at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, Nalin Surie. More » Today the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Janez Janša, met the presidents of coalition and opposition parties, the head of the parliamentary group of unaffiliated MPs, and the representative of the Hungarian minority to continue a debate that began one week ago and to exchange views on resolving outstanding issues between the Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Croatia. More » The government adopted on Thursday the programme on education of the unemployed for the 2007-2008 academic year. According to the Labour, the Family and Social Affairs Minister Marjeta Cotman, the programme is aimed at providing the unemployed with formal education and improving their employability. More » Slovenia's biggest bank, NLB, published a prospectus on a new share issue on Tuesday as part of a planned capital increase. The 325,733 new shares are being offered at EUR 307 per share, while the bank's share capital will increase by EUR 2.719m to EUR 66.831m. More » Aerodrom Ljubljana, the manager of Slovenia's largest airport, generated revenues to the tune of EUR 17.09m in the first half of 2007, 33% more than in the same period last year. More » A public call for bids for a 49.13% state stake in telco Telekom Slovenije will be published on 31 August in the Slovenian and European official journals and the Financial Times. The Economy Ministry explained on Tuesday that the reason for a week's delay in the planned publication of the tender was of technical nature. More » Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Iztok Jarc opened the 45th annual Agriculture and Food Fair in Gornja Radgona on Saturday, underscoring the need to make the sector more competitive and get ready for the challenges raised by the global market and climate change. More » Prime Minister Janez Jansa stressed Slovenia's commitment to EU enlargement when it takes over the rotating EU presidency in 2008. "Furthering the enlargement agenda will be one of the top tasks of the Slovenian presidency," he said in his address to a Bled Strategic Forum conference on Sunday. More » Priorities of Slovenia's stint at the helm of the EU and cooperation topped bilateral meetings that Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel held on Sunday at the sidelines of the second annual conference of the Strategic Forum Bled, the Foreign Ministry said. More » The solution of the Kosovo issue is essential to the future of the EU, a panel on a vision for Europe at the Bled Strategic Forum conference concluded on Sunday. This issue is not impossible to resolve, but it will require a single EU voice, Macedonian Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski said. More » Cooperation between the port of Koper and Polish North Sea ports, and an extension of the 6th trans-European transport corridor to Slovenia, topped the agenda as Transport Minister Janez Bozic held talks on Tuesday with his Polish counterpart Jerzy Polaczek. More » The Gorenjsko region will host the 11th European Masters Championships in swimming, diving, open water and synchronised swimming between 28 August and 2 September in what will be the biggest sporting event in Slovenia so far. As many as 3,800 swimmers from 32 countries will take part, 80 among them from Slovenia. More » Slovenia's Primoz Kozmus won silver in hammer throw at the 11th World Championships in Athletics in Osaka on Monday in what is the best outdoor result for Slovenia ever. More » Travel company JTB Business World Tokyo Corp and the Slovenian Tourist Board signed on Tuesday a contract on cooperation in PR activities, aimed at increasing the number of Japanese tourists visiting Slovenia. More » Interior Minister Dragutin Mate and his Italian counterpart Giuliano Amato signed an agreement on cross-border police cooperation in Ljubljana on Monday in what Mate described as an "upgrade of all agreements so far". More » Schedule of Events for 29 August - 2 September More »

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