Slovenia Weekly: Support and dialogue

This week, the Slovenian Foreign Affairs Minister Tanja Fajon made her first official visit to Zagreb. The minister highlighted Slovenia's support for Croatia's full integration into the European Union through its planned adoption of the euro and entry into the Schengen area early next year. Slovenia and Croatia share the same views on the main challenges Europe is currently dealing with. This includes the war in Ukraine and its consequences, especially the energy crisis, and the overly slow expansion of the European Union to the Western Balkans, which has enabled the increasingly greater influence of Russia, China and the Gulf states in this area.

Today the Slovenian parliament will be addressed by the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. This is to show support for the Ukrainian people in the battle for their homeland, and reflect Slovenian friendship with Ukraine. Prime Minister Robert Golob already spoke with Zelensky before the EU Council meeting in Brussels at the end of June, assuring him that even though there had been a change of government in Slovenia, the country’s attitude towards Ukraine had not altered.

With the Tour de France on the road again, in which Tadej Pogačar, after winning stage seven, has already won the yellow jersey even before the end of the first week of the race and its first mountain stage, the Slovenian Statistical Office  has prepared an interesting post about bicycles, cyclists and cycling in Slovenia, which you can find among the news.

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    Minister Fajon on her first visit to Zagreb to strengthen good neighbourly relations

    6. 7. 2022

    Minister of Foreign Affairs Tanja Fajon paid her first visit to neighbouring Croatia. As well as spending time with her host, Croatian Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Gordan Grlić Radman, she also met with Croatian President Zoran Milanović and Prime Minister Andrej Plenković.
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    Prime Minister Robert Golob and his cabinet heard Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's address of the Slovenian parliament

    8. 7. 2022

    Prime Minister Robert Golob and his team of ministers gathered in the national assembly to listen to President Volodymyr Zelensky's address as a sign of their support for and solidarity with the Ukrainian people.
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    Presentation of the 2022 Economic Survey of Slovenia

    4. 7. 2022

    The presentation of the 2022 Economic Survey of Slovenia, prepared by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), took place on Monday at Brdo pri Kranju. The Economic Survey provides a comprehensive picture of the macroeconomic situation in Slovenia, with special attention paid to the topical issue of the digitalisation of society and the economy.
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    State Secretary Vojko Volk in discussions with Kosovo President

    5. 7. 2022

    Vojko Volk, State Secretary for International Affairs at the Office of the Prime Minister, attended, together with President of Kosovo Vjosa Osmani-Sadriuhe, a round table on the future of the Western Balkans, held under the auspices of the Centre for European Future and the Bled Strategic Forum.
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    Bicycles, cyclists and cycling

    8. 7. 2022

    Last year Slovenia imported 82,600 regular and 16,400 electric bicycles. Bicycles were used on 204,000 daily trips, most of the time the purpose was leisure. Most residents of Slovenia with the same first/family name combination as Slovenian cyclists in this year’s Tour de France are Matej Mohorič.
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    10 years since the discovery of the Higgs boson

    8. 7. 2022

    On Monday 4 July, it was 10 years since researchers at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) presented to the public the results of an experiment at the Large Hadron Collider pointing to the existence of the Higgs boson. The Jožef Stefan Institute (IJS) also participated in the discovery of this elementary particle and marked the tenth anniversary of this landmark discovery with an event whose honorary patron was Slovenian President Borut Pahor.
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