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.

Slovenia has been a member of the United Nations since May 1992 and of the Council of Europe since May 1993.

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.

In Croatia, from the 12th century, Glagolitic inscriptions appeared mostly in littoral areas: Istria, Primorje, Kvarner and Kvarner islands, notably Krk, Cres and Lošinj ; in Dalmatia, on the islands of Zadar, but there were also findings in inner Lika and Krbava, reaching to Kupa river, and even as far as Međimurje and Slovenia.

Located at the far northwest of Slovenia where the borders of Slovenia, Austria, and Italy meet, the valley is embraced on the north and south by the towering peaks of the Karavanke Mountains and the Julian Alps.

Planica is an alpine valley in northwestern Slovenia, extending south from the border village of Rateče, not far from another well-known ski resort, Kranjska Gora.

His by far the most known construction is the Aljaž Tower (), built on the summit of Mount Triglav, the highest mountain of the Julian Alps and of Slovenia.

Their most successful World Cup qualifying so far was the 2002 finals, where they held Slovenia to a 2 – 2 draw at home and beat Luxembourg twice, 2 – 0 on road and 1 – 0 at home.

The territory of Styria at the time went far beyond the modern Styrian state and included lands not only in modern Slovenia ( see Lower Styria ), but also in Upper Austria, more precisely the Traungau ( the area around Wels and Steyr ).

He has performed across Russia and Central Asia, as well as far away as Vietnam, Germany, Latvia, Austria, Slovenia, Switzerland and Lithuania.

In 2002 the Macedonian bands Foltin and Dragan Dautovski Quartet, as well as bands from Croatia, Hungary, Netherlands, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro participated in the festival and in 2005 bands from as far as the Netherlands and Norway participated.

Together with Milan Balažic, Pahor emerged as the leader of the pro-reformist wing of the party, which advocated a clear cut with the Communist past and a full-fledged acceptance of free market economy ; they even went so far to propose the merger of the party with Jože Pučnik's Social Democratic Party of Slovenia.

The village is also known through the folksong " Verbniče nad moren " or " Verbniče nad moru " ( Oh Vrbnik over the Sea ), sung as far away as White Carniola in Slovenia.

The European green lizard, Lacerta viridis, is a large lizard distributed across European midlatitudes from Slovenia and eastern Austria to as far east as the Black Sea coasts of Ukraine and Turkey.

From 1438 the Habsburgs, who controlled most of the southeast of the Empire ( more or less modern-day Austria and Slovenia, and Bohemia and Moravia after the death of King Louis II in 1526 ), maintained a constant grip on the position of the Holy Roman Emperor until 1806 ( with the exception of the years between 1742 and 1745 ).

In Slovenia, the word selo is used for very small villages ( less than a thousand people ) and in dialects ; the Slovene word vas is used all over Slovenia.

Although polemic, which would definitely clarify the discipline ’ s past erratic wanderings and amnesias and an almost total theoretic oblivion in the field of history in Slovenia, is not a usual tool of scientific communication in these regions, it is nevertheless clear that Taja Kramberger has opened ( among some other researchers, such as Drago Braco Rotar, Rastko Močnik, Maja Breznik, Lev Centrih, Primož Krašovec, in a small, theoretically much less pertinent part also Marta Verginella and Oto Luthar ) an important segment of future debates, which are needed to elucidate some of the neglected and spontaneously transmitted chapters of the Slovenian ( distinctly ethnocentric and Sonderweg ) history.

There were considerable differences between the Member States, with the pay gap ranging from less than 10 % in Italy, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Belgium to more than 20 % in Slovakia, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Germany, United Kingdom and Greece and more than 25 % in Estonia and Austria.

After the coup d ' etat of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia in January 1929, the counties were abolished and replaced with nine Banates ( Slovene: Banovina ). April 1941, German troops march into Maribor Following the reorganization implemeted by the Yugoslav constitution of 1931, Slovene Styria was incorporated in the newly established Drava Banovina, which was more or less identical with Slovenia, with Ljubljana as its capital city.

It's much less common in northern and western Slovenia ; in the Goriška region on the border with Italy, it is quite rare.

In her role as the president of New Slovenia, she stated that homosexuality is not normal, that same sex relationships are less stable than opposite sex relationships, and that gay people should not be able to adopt.

There were considerable differences between the Member States, with the pay gap ranging from less than 10 % in Italy, Slovenia, Malta, Romania, Belgium, Portugal and Poland to more than 20 % in Slovakia, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Germany, United Kingdom and Greece and more than 25 % in Estonia and Austria.

The klopotec is most frequently heard in the transnational region from Southwest Styria ( e. g., the Sausal mountain range and the Weinstraße ) to Eastern Slovenia: Slovenske gorice, Haloze and Prlekija ( of which it is a symbol ), less frequently in Lower Carniola and White Carniola.