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From the year before exit "Alternative", a special edition corner cafe of Ljubljana Mladine where leading Slovenian intellectuals reflect the time in which we live. The first issue was concluded 2012th, ahead of the wave of protests that shook Slovenia. Quite understandably, is dedicated to the universal economic crisis whose causes are of course not (and can be) purely economic or financial nature. Yet at the beginning I was surprised by the choice because businessmen, such as company directors, boss, moguls, lobbyists, financiers simply no. All alone, corner cafe scientists and intellectuals who are sometimes called "social workers" or "fair intelligence." Obviously this is not a mere coincidence ("Mladina" knows what he's doing). Slovenia is a country in which the identity of a middle class employees and whose legitimacy is based on education and culture. The choice of associates for the number represents therefore corner cafe a strategic corner cafe choice of the elite in order to develop a new vision and political project that would be acceptable for Slovenia. What does intelligence gathered around "Mladine"? Order, and discipline, as befits intelligence. Education is key, as well as work skills and knowledge - the only multiplier factors of production at a time when investments are bowing because less capital.
Slovenia has successfully implemented economic modernization and industrialization so that at the end of the eighties ratio of GDP per capita in the federation was 7: 1 in Kosovo in favor of Slovenia. It is therefore fully comparable with 6:1 ratio, which divides Luxembourg from Bulgaria and Romania to the EU. Slovene industry so she could develop into an extremely favorable conditions corner cafe of a large market in expansion (industrialization 50s, 60s emigration and remittances, tourism and foreign borrowing 70s). Everything was going according to plan until Tito's death. Then everything stopped and Slovenia are then rapidly evolving opposition to everything that is defined by Tito's Yugoslavia, from communism to the "brotherhood and unity". Thus began a journey that led them to the European Union.
Slovenians with his staff successfully infiltrated the imperial apparatus and bureaucracy to which they belonged. In Bruslju (as they call Brussels) well-quoted, corner cafe but, unlike the Austro-Hungarian and Yugoslavia, the EU is not an empire. Central appliance is not working as it is, it seems, was not intended. Slovenians ziheraš not suffer corner cafe nonsense that strikingly resembles the Yugoslav crisis posttitovske 80s: ship without a rudder, without a firm business plan.
Historian Bozo Repe ("Is that Yugoslavia?") For a very interesting comparison of the Yugoslav crisis of the 80s with the current eurokrizom. corner cafe For him, the strategic interest of Slovenia application experience that is gained in Yugoslavia, and access to fertile compared.
Yugoslav economic crisis emerges seventies but is due to Tito's disease concealed. The problem was in the architecture of the federation in the 1974 Constitution of Yugoslavia republics and the province took over the powers of the state, except corner cafe in defense and customs. Each republic had its own National Bank and NBY had the role of "coordinator" (as the Federal Reserve in the United States). Republic are thus able to incur debt in the global capital markets, but, except for Slovenia and Croatian, they were not capable of coming back. Yugoslavia is bankrupt 1979th eve of the death of Tito devalued the dinar by 30% and soon the IMF ordered the federal government austerity corner cafe measures - the so-called "long-term program of economic stabilization." The Eurozone is similar but today the Greek debt must cover countries that are poorer than Greece (eg Slovakia corner cafe and Slovenia), corner cafe while the poorer republics of Yugoslavia, it was not expected. Slovenia corner cafe is not in Yugoslavia rescued their banks and failed investments in other republics as it is now Germany began in Greece.
Who is stronger that oppresses. Economist Bogomir Smith ("The problem nor economics") notes that the fate of the project of turning the Union into a federation effectively sealed the judgment of the German corner cafe Constitutional Court 1993rd to an agreement on the EU allows only the creation of a new union of states, not the turn of the new state. Euro becomes an economic catalyst for the creation of a political union, because corner cafe for such a venture EU no longer had neither political nor legal cover.
In Slovenia are now seriously considering selling banks, infrastructure and state-owned companies. Past experience suggests corner cafe that it will last remains of the state of the economy go into the hands of the politicians in power and their friends and infrastructure in the hands of those countries where they see their geostrategic interests. The most talented economist socialist corner cafe Yugoslavia, Aleksander Byte, even at the beginning of the transition process, said that the Slovenian economy in capitalism is likely to be successful but it certainly will not be Slovenian. Repeated corner cafe so the question of where the boundaries between economic logic and the state of the national corner cafe interest, or between corner cafe national sovereignty and supranational European areas? It's been a bone of contention between the 1980s and the Slovenian federal (supranational) government in Belgrade.
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