Today, on the 25th of June, we are celebrating Statehood Day, which is the most important day of independent Slovenia. It was on this day in 1991 when the Slovenian nation finally broke its ties with the failed Yugoslavian communist regime and embarked on the path of democracy. But today, 34 years later, the spirit …
Could We Still Carry Out The Independence Process Today? Historian: “I Doubt It.” Read More »
The central ceremony marking Slovenian Statehood Day, which took place on Monday, the 24th of June in Ljubljana’s Congress Square, was attended by many politicians who have marked the period of recent Slovenian history since the country’s foundation. Among them were Borut Pahor, Danilo Türk, Janez Janša and Milan Kučan. Borut Pahor, former President of …
In the three decades of its own statehood, Slovenian society has not developed in accordance with its potential, especially regarding human resources, due to incomplete democratization. Anyone who has read Trstenjak’s optimistic descriptions of the Slovenian national character believed that these people, once freed from totalitarian obstacles, would start to fly on the wings of …
[30 years of independence] For the common good without exclusion Read More »
Thirty years ago, Slovenia successfully withdrew from an environment that did not bring it much good. The Yugoslav states, especially the second one, were marked by constant political instability, an unequal position of nations, dictatorship, totalitarianism and drastic violations of human rights and fundamental freedoms, wars and massacres, confiscation of personal property, and economic and …
It is not just money that unites us in the European Union Read More »
On the 31st anniversary of the order for the (self)disarmament of the Territorial Defence of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia (Teritorialna obramba Socialistične Republike Slovenije – referred to as the TO SRS), we will publish a series of articles on the turbulent times of the year 1990, when a handful of brave men managed to …
