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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (124925)2/27/2004 2:34:01 AM
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For Slovenia, New Alliances Are Raising New Issues
By Nicholas Wood
New York Times February 27, 2004
nytimes.com

[One of the rare articles about Slovenia...]

LJUBLJANA, Slovenia — When Slovenia, an almost idyllic place of just under two million people, nestled cozily between Austria and Italy, enters the European Union in May, it will do so with one of the highest standards of living of any of the 10 new members.

But anticipation of European Union membership is adding a new layer to the debates about the identity of this still-young country and fanning fears of the kind of narrow nationalism that Slovene politicians are usually anxious to deride as typical of the rest of the old Yugoslavia.

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