Janez Jansa has led his party since 1993. He has mooted austerity measures that could lead to spending cuts of up to 10%. Mr Jansa says his main objective is to steer Slovenia out of its economic difficulties. Mr Jansa says his priority is to reduce Slovenia's economic difficultiesįive mostly centre-right parliamentary parties, led by Mr Jansa's Slovenian Democratic Party, proposed Mr Jansa after rejecting Zoran Jankovic, Ljubljana's centre-left mayor and the surprise winner of the poll, as prime minister. Slovenia dropped its opposition to Croatia's joining NATO in March 2009, but continued to block its neighbour's EU membership bid for a further eight months - only agreeing to lift the veto after a deal on the Piran border dispute in November 2009. Slovenia's relations with Croatia have long been strained on account of a rumbling dispute over sea and land borders dating back to the break-up of Yugoslavia. Human rights groups expressed dismay at the move which embarrassed the leadership as it prepared to celebrate EU membership. Parliament later passed a bill restoring their citizenship but a referendum held shortly before EU entry in 2004 overturned it by an overwhelming margin. This reputation was tarnished after independence when thousands of nationals of other former Yugoslav republics were removed from population records and lost residency rights. Throughout the 1980s there was pressure from Slovenia for greater political freedom and pluralism in the federation. Politically, Slovenia was the most liberal republic within Yugoslavia. A year later, it became the first former communist state to take on the EU presidency. On 1 January 2007, it became the first of the new EU member states to join the eurozone.
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Slovenia had always been the most prosperous region of the former Yugoslavia and found the transition from a state economy to the free market easier than most.
Ljubljana castle overlooks the capital's old town
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