The media have been forced into line, scandals hushed up and the population has lost its belief in the constitutional state. Journalist Blaž Zgaga explains why for him today Slovenia can no longer be seen as the Switzerland of southeastern Europe.
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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.
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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.
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A piece of literature by the most prominent slovenian novelist, playwright and essayist Drago Jančar.
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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.
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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...
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An (artists) review of the contemporary production of art in Eastern Europe.
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A Commend on the last exhibition "Territories, Identities, Nets" in Ljubljana of the Slowenian curator Igor Zabel (1958-2005).
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"Six Pack", an architecture exhibition of six young Slovene architects practices, started its European tour at the beginning of 2004, shortly before Slovenia joined the EU.
Petra Čeferin explores in our magazine the way the exhibition and the projects were received and analyses the search for differences and the local aspects.
Not only a Slovene, but also a European problem.
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Viennese market researcher Rudolf Bretschneider, director of the Fessl & GFK - Institute, collects data about eastern Europe. What does his mountain of information reveal about the people in eastern Europe?
Florian Klenk in conversation with Rudolf Bretschneider.
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The (borderline) publisher Lojze Wieser has championed small-scale and unknown literature from Austria's eastern neighbours for two decades and also founded the "Enzyklopädie des europäischen Ostens" (Encyclopedia of the European East). For Wieser communication in one's own native language is a human right that should be granted to everyone. In conversation with Antje Mayer.
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Slovene translator Urška P. Černe believes that, so far, "the preservation of national and regional diversity" has remained just a slogan. A commentary.
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In former Yugoslavia Slovenian film played only a marginal role and yet there are still a number of current highlights
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Birgit Langenberger and Manuela Hötzl in conversation with Marina Gržinić about her book “Fiction Reconstructed”, in which, starting from the contrast between East and West, she defines a new symbolic culture space.
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A portrait of Igor Zabel (1958-2005), director of the Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana and Slovene representative on the advisory board of tranzit.
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