Slovenia

Capital: Ljubljana
Population: 2 mill.
GDP per capita: 15 200 Euros (2006)
Schengen zone: yes
Eurozone: yes
EU-accession: 2004
Cities with European institutions or agencies:

EU-relations: Slovenia became nationally independent in 1991, after it had been a part of Yugoslavia since the end of World War II. The approach to the EU and the acceptance of the acquis communautaire were regarded as a chance to modernize the young nation and were widely approved among the Slovenes. In a referendum that was held in 2003 89.64% voted yes to join the EU. As opposed to this, only 66.08% supported the membership of NATO. The EU membership was not least another attempt to escape the Babylonian conditions in the Balkans. Today Slovenia is a model country: It takes the third place in converting the Law of the European Union into national law and has the fewest number of pending cases concerning violation of EU Law. As one of the richest countries to join the EU in 2004 Slovenia has made it all the way to the Eurozone and was the first country of them all to do so. The economic facts are real: High economic growth and low debts. In the first half of 2008, Slovenia got the presidency of the EU as the first of the countries that joined the EU in 2004. It was the third link of the first “Trio Presidency” in the whole history of the EU.

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Slovenian EU Council Presidency

Slovenian EU Council Presidency 2008 in Figures
4 July 2008
Holding the EU Council Presidency is a responsible task involving managing and representing the Community of 27 Member States and about 500 million citizens. In this important task, performed by the Republic of Slovenia in the first half of 2008, 2,720 Slovenian civil servants, 133 independent (...)

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Minister Bajuk: “We achieved great progress in the field of improving financial stability and financial supervision, and provided coordinated responses at the EU level to the financial market shocks and high food and oil prices”
1 July 2008
Dr Andrej Bajuk, Minister of Finance and President of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN), presented the main achievements of the Slovenian Presidency in the field of economic and financial affairs today at a press conference, where he pointed out: “The Slovenian Presidency (...)

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Achievements of the Slovenian Government Office For Local Self-Government And Regional Policy During the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU
1 July 2008
The Slovenian Government Office for Local Self-Government and Regional Policy (GOSP) achieved all the set objectives in the framework of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU. On the strategic level, the greatest emphasis is on the progress regarding the issue of the future of (...)

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Goodbye and thank you from the www.eu2008.si website editorial team upon the conclusion of the Slovenian EU Council Presidency
1 July 2008
This is the last day of Slovenia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union. We, the members of the www.eu2008.si website editorial team, would like to thank all the internet users that have visited our website and the mobile portal and made good use of their services in the last six (...)

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Minister Rupel passes the Presidency of the EU Council on to the French Foreign Minister Kouchner
30 June 2008
A ceremony on the occasion of the assumption of the Presidency of the EU Council by France took place in Nova Gorica, Trg Evrope (Europe Square) this afternoon. The Presidency will pass from Slovenia to France today at midnight. In the square, which also witnessed Slovenia's EU accession on 1 (...)

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The Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence of the University of Roma Tor Vergata, in partnership with Eurosduvillage group, is organizing the eighth edition of the Jean Monnet Summer Seminar a high level seminar on the functioning of the European Union addressed to graduate and Phd students as well as young civil servants. The seminar include two teaching modules lasting one week. The first module (4-8 July) will analyze the decision making process of the European Union while the second one (11-15 July) the foreign policy of the European Union. For more information and registration go to: http://www.eusummerseminar.uniroma2.it/