Slovenia

     The expression "the Slovene miracle" first appeared in the international media in the mid-eighties. At that time, when the collapse of the eastern system was still unimaginable, magazines throughout the worlds first wrote, with the feeling of having discovered a new world, and for the most part with undisguised sympathy, about a central European country neighbouring Austria, Italy and Hungary, which could not be included among classically understood communist states in terms of civilised standards, concepts of human rights, national income or economic programmes.

     The came everything that caused the eighties to end with hope and he nineties to start with concern. For Slovenia, this was one of the peaks of its history: four centuries after Protestant clerics inscribed them among European nations with a translated edition of Bible, the Slovenes gained their own State. After the aggression of the Yugoslav Army and victory in the ten day war, the slogan about a miracle was reinforced by a nation of the intelligence and exceptional organisation of the Slovenes.

     In the end, of course, we are what we are. Slovenia is not only one of the youngest, she is also one of the smallest of the European countries. With two million inhabitants, she only a third the population of Denmark and is half the size of Switzerland; but her position is all that could be desired. Situated along the foothills of the eastern end of the chain of Alps, at the very tip of most northerly Mediterranean bay, open towards Hungary and the south, it is a natural hub of European routes from north to south and west to east.

     This land has already been marked as a new State on diplomatic map and on the maps of international organisations. Most foreigners - we are under no illusion about it - have yet get to know us. Whether you cam as a tourist, as a guest or as a business partner, ask, ask, ask.
Slovenia has lots of answers.