by Viktorija Plavcak – Slovenia – Slovenia, a new member of the European Union since September 2007, is a state where the rights of individuals are trampled on every day and nobody cares. Some may feign concern in public, but…
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Bureaucracy Killed a Man: Slovenia’s Health Care System Creates Another Tragedy
by Viktorija Plavcak – Slovenia – Two weeks ago in Celje, the third largest city in Slovenia, a fifty-year old man, barely able to drive himself to the hospital, walked into the ER in the middle of the night complaining…
Trapped in Slovenia: Refugee “Separated Children” Are Often Trafficked Across International Borders
by Viktorija Plavcak – Slovenia – Many European countries, as well as Slovenia, are facing the problem of refugees and illegal runaways. Slovenia is merely a transitory country for many, but since it acts as a divide between the East…
Much Ado About Nothing: How the Adoption of the Euro Is Effecting Slovenia’s Identity
by Viktorija Plavcak – Slovenia – It has been almost two years since Slovenia became a full member of the European Union. On May 5th, 2005 we entered the European Union after years of pain-staking preparations and compliance with the…
8th March – International Women’s Day
by Viktorija Plavcak – Slovenia – Some thirty years ago, in a socialist system, we went out to the woods to pick the first snowdrops, to search highs and lows under the snow blanket covering the soft, mossy grounds. We…
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