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Tough times for a model student

Slovenia, the first new EU member state to introduce the euro, took over the presidency of the EU on the first of January of this year. However, price increases and political scandals are now threatening to disrupt the idyll of the small Alpine republic.

Swimming in the sea, with your passport in your mouth

Little Slovenia is this year the first of the countries that joined the EU in 2004 to take over the EU Presidency. Reason enough for a short winter visit to sample the Mediterranean feeling in the capital, Ljubljana.

"In terms of democratic politics we have gone backwards by about 15 years"

Slovenia: Journalist Blaž Zgaga on the media’s situation in his country

Instructions for a Visitor

A piece of literature by the most prominent slovenian novelist, playwright and essayist Drago Jančar.

Women’s Discos, Gays and Punk – The Underground in Lubljana in the 1980s

An interview with Aldo Ivančić. In the 1980s, the cultural scene in Ljubljana was vibrating like never before: weird art actions, wild punk concerts and crazy lesbian and gay get-togethers were characteristic of the underground scene in the Slovenian capital, which is only about the size of Graz.

"Slovene cultures of waiting and fear"

Since 1989 Slovene society has been one of waiting for the end of socialism, waiting for independence, waiting for international recognition, waiting for economic prosperity and political democracy, waiting for the “normalization” of the rest of the ex-Yugoslav states, waiting for NATO and EU membership, waiting for the implementation of the Euro...

What is the mood in the country like?

Cd Tip: Trans Slovenia Express Vol. 2

Kraftwerk cover versions by different Slovene musicians

Book Tip: Slovenia

Its history from the beginnings to the present

Jean Améry-Prize to Drago Jančar

Literature prize for essays

Journey from Kosovo to Kaliningrad

The name of the small Luxembourg town is synonymous for a (European) area without border controls. "Schengen" the current exhibition in the Berlin gallery Feinkost for contemporary art (till April 13, 2008) from Central and Eastern Europe uses this as its starting point.