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"Mr President, as we know, of the ten candidate countries, Slovenia best meets the entry criteria: it had only one point that was not in its favour. That concerned the recognition of foreign certificates of study, and the situation was resolved with the recent law. Today, foreign certificates are officially recognised in the same was as Slovenian certificates. There will, of course, be problems, but there is no alternative, as was rightly stated this morning by Commissioner Verheugen, the man to whom great credit is due for this enormous political and diplomatic operation.
Slovenia’s positive situation stems both from the strong consensus among the governing and opposition parties and from the scale on which the
has been faced up to and the care and skill with which it has been tackled. Already the next objective is to enter the eurozone, an objective that, some years ago, seemed difficult when inflation was rather high, but that now seems attainable within a reasonable time, given that, at the end of 2003, inflation fell, settling at between 4% and 5%. Slovenia has, therefore, been able to reconvert some large plants – the legacy of
socialism – into small businesses that have subsequently become relatively dynamic.
In foreign policy, the issue of relations with Croatia remains open: there has recently been news of the Croatian parliament’s ratification of the agreement on the distribution of the assets of the succession countries of the former Yugoslavia, an agreement signed in Vienna in 2001, but until now only signed by the Croatians. Within this legally defined framework, it will therefore be easier to resolve other problems, not least that of the Croatian unilateral declaration on the exclusive Adriatic maritime environmental zone, criticised by the European Union too for being unilateral and not achieved through an agreement between all those concerned. The general climate between Zagreb and Ljubljana has, however, recently improved and the values of security, stability and prosperity to which Slovenia aspires are those of the European Union.
Entry into the EU is recognition of the road taken towards modernising the country while respecting Community values and principles. Congratulations and welcome, therefore, to Slovenia."@en1
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