Recently, after so many years of waiting, the construction of this route has been realized, in addition to the extension of the A3 so it connects Zagreb to Croatian borders with both Serbia ( near Lipovac ) and Slovenia ( near Bregana ).

This policy has been in place since late 2004 but excludes the EU countries ( namely, Slovenia and Italy ).

It has 2, 258 km of boundaries, shared with Austria to the west, Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia to the south and southwest, Romania to the southeast, Ukraine to the northeast, and Slovakia to the north.

Jason has connections outside of the classical world, as he is seen as being the mythical founder of the city of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia.

The international community has settled on karst, the German name for Kras, a region in Slovenia partially extending into Italy, where it is called " Carso " and where the first scientific research of a karst topography was made.

Since the late 90s in Austria, slow release oral morphine has been used alongside methadone and buprenorphine for OST and more recently it has been approved in Slovenia and Bulgaria, and it has gained approval in other EU nations including the United Kingdom, although its use is not as of yet not as widespread.

Slovenia has little political instability.

Since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, Slovenia has instituted a stable, multi-party, democratic political system, characterized by regular elections, a free press, and an excellent human rights record.

However, Slovenia is the only former Communist state that has never carried out lustration.

Ten years after independence, Slovenia has made tremendous progress establishing democratic institutions, enshrining respect for human rights, establishing a market economy and adapting its military to Western norms and standards.

Upon achieving independence, Slovenia offered citizenship to all residents, regardless of ethnicity or origin, avoiding a sectarian trap that has caught out many central European countries.

Slovenia willingly accepted refugees from the fighting in Bosnia and has since participated in international stabilization efforts in the region.

On the international front, Slovenia has advanced rapidly toward integration into the Euro-Atlantic community of nations.

Invited to begin accession negotiations with the European Union in November 1998, Slovenia has achieve two of its primary foreign policy goals: membership in the EU and NATO.

Slovenia has been an active participant in Partnership for Peace ( PfP ) and has sought to demonstrate its preparedness to take on the responsibilities and burdens of membership in the Alliance.

Due to the out-of-date infrastructure, the share of the railway freight transport has been in decline in Slovenia despite growing slightly in absolute terms.

Slovenia has a very high motorway density compared to the European Union average.

The air transport in Slovenia is quite low, but has significantly grown since 1991.

* Slovenia has observer status, like the United States, in ( the Turkish proposed ) Multinational Peacekeeping Force Southeast European ( MPFSEE ), with other participants being Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Italy, the Republic of Macedonia, Romania, and Turkey ;

* Since November 1997, Slovenia has participated in its first United Nations peacekeeping operation, contributing 27 troops to an Austrian UNFICYP contingent on Cyprus.

Slovenia also has peacekeepers with the UN at Naharya Ogl, Israel, on the Lebanese border.

Key issues over the last decade have been the implementation of the Dayton Accords and the Erdut Agreement, nondiscriminatory facilitation of the return of refugees and displaced persons from the 1991-95 war including property restitution for ethnic Serbs, resolution of border disputes with Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Montenegro, and general democratization.

For example the President for the second half of 2007, Portugal, was the second in a trio of states alongside Germany and Slovenia with whom Portugal had been co-operating.

The first census of modern Slovenia was carried in 1991, after independence had been declared.

Numerous archeological remains dating from the Hallstatt period have been found in Slovenia, with important settlements in Most na Soči, Vače, and Šentvid pri Stični.

The location at the junction of the Mediterranean, the Alps, the Dinarides and the Pannonian Plain and the area being traversed by major rivers have been the reasons for the intersection of the main transport routes in Slovenia.

In contrast, other state roads, managed by the Road Directorate of the Republic of Slovenia, have been rapidly deteriorating due to neglection and the overall increase in traffic.

Since the 1st June 2008 highway users in Slovenia have been required to buy a vignette.

Equally there is criticism from Austria that Slovenia has not given it ` s German-Austrian minority and heritage, the same recognition that it has given to Italians and Hungarians, although Germans have historically been the largest ethhnic minority of the country.

Relations between Slovenia and Croatia have been friendly, but burdened with constant disputes, including several unresolved minor border disputes, namely:

In a series of high-level meetings since the latter half of 1998, Slovenia and Croatia have been engaged in settling bilateral differences, a process which accelerated after the death of Croatian President Franjo Tuđman in 1999.

Since 1991, the region has been part of an independent Slovenia.

They had asked the 12th congress of the SSO of Slovenia to be allowed to use the name Laibach and have public performances, a request which had been accepted.

From 13 countries that participated, only Poland, Slovenia, Croatia, Romania and Latvia have been organizing Prides.

This spring has been proclaimed a natural heritage object, and Rinka Falls is one of the most beautiful and best-known waterfalls in Slovenia.

There has also been a number of foreigners who have represented the national teams of Sweden, Iceland, Senegal, Finland, Malta, Australia, South Africa, Slovenia, Tunisia, Canada, Somalia, and Nigeria.

However, there have been many significant challenges facing Istro-Romanians in preserving their language, culture and ethnic identity, including emigration from communism and migration to nearby cities and towns after World War II, when the Paris Peace Treaty with Italy that was signed on February 10, 1947 took Istria away from Italy ( which had previously gained Istria after World War I ) and awarded it to Yugoslavia, the parent country of present-day Croatia and Slovenia, who split Istria in two parts amongst themselves, while Italy retained the small portion near Trieste.

In the local Slovene dialects, the term has been literally translated as Beneška Slovenija ' Venetian Slovenia '.

This name has been in use for almost six centuries, but it has no connection to the modern concept of Slovenia as a polity of the Slovenes, which emerged only with Romantic nationalism in the 1840s.

Liberals are also in government in eight other EU member states: Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Sweden.

Today, with a growing regional profile, a participant in the SFOR peacekeeping deployment in Bosnia and the KFOR deployment in Kosovo, and a charter World Trade Organization member, Slovenia plays a role on the world stage quite out of proportion to its small size.

Slovenia signed an association agreement with the European Union in 1996 and is a member of the Central European Free Trade Agreement.

Slovenia also is a member of all major international financial institutions ( the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ) as well as 40 other international organizations, among them the World Trade Organization, of which it is a founding member.

* Slovenia is a member of Central European Nations Cooperation on Peacekeeping ( CENCOOP ), together with Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, and Switzerland.

From 1988 he is an honourable member of the Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia ( DMFA ).

In 2005 he was decorated with the Order of Merit ( Slovenia ), He is a founding member of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry

Since its establishment, more member states have joined through a series of accession treaties, from the UK, Ireland, Denmark and Norway in 1972 ( though Norway did not end up joining ), Greece in 1979, Spain and Portugal 1985, Austria, Finland, Norway and Sweden in 1994 ( though again Norway failed to join, because of lack of support in the referendum ), the Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia in 2004, and Romania and Bulgaria in 2007.

Except for Chile, Estonia, Iceland, Israel, Mexico, and Slovenia, all OECD member states are members of the IEA.

Slovenia is a member of the International Union of Railways ( UIC ).

He was member of National Assembly of Slovenia until August 2010, when he became vice-president of the European Investment Bank.

Twelve former member states ( Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia ) have subsequently joined NATO.

On May 22, 1992 Kučan represented Slovenia as it became a new member of the United Nations.

In May 2004, Slovenia became a full member of both the EU and NATO.

In 1990, he returned to Slovenia as member of the Constitutional Commission of the Slovenian National Assembly led by France Bučar and Peter Jambrek.

Congress of the Socialist International in New York, United List became full member party of Socialist International as the only social-democratic party from Slovenia.

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* In Slovenia, the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia ( Liberalna demokracija Slovenije ) member LI, ELDR ) is a left of center liberal party.

The Liberal Democracy of Slovenia ( Liberalna demokracija Slovenije, becomes a member of the LI and the ELDR ) and profiles itself as a left of center liberal party.

* Slovenia EA ( 1999 ), now EU member

It now counts 18 member states: Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.

Tamburica ( or ) or Tamboura (, meaning " little Tamboura "; ;, sometimes written tamburrizza ) refers to any member of a family of long-necked lutes popular in Eastern and Central Europe, particularly Hungary, Serbia ( especially Vojvodina ), Slovenia, Croatia ( especially Slavonia ).