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8 POLITICAL COMMENTARY
Through dire sTraiTs To The Presidency
MeTod Berlec, ediTor of The social-PoliTical
weekly deMokracija
13 DO YOu ThINk OR DO YOu
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on The TenTh anniversary of The 'slovenia. aT
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19-20 OuR EXCELLENCE
nePTune digiTal a finalisT in The conTesT
sTarT:uP slovenija
29-30 NATuRAL TRAILS
liPica undergoing renovaTion, Miraculous
PreservaTion of The sTud farM liPica
Cover photo: Lipica, Photo: Darinka MladenoviË
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Anæe Logar
ThE RECuRRINg ThEME
In the first half of 2008, the European Union will meet with
third countries at four summits. At the end of April, the 17th
EU-Japan Summit took place.
In the middle of May, Lima will host the EU-LAC Summit,
and in June, Slovenia will be the host country of the EU-
USA Summit. The last days of the Slovenian Presidency will
be marked by the EU-Russia Summit, where top European
political leaders will meet with their Russian colleagues.
Although agendas are drawn up long before meetings
take place and the central theme is adjusted to a specific
relationship between individual partners, all these meetings
have been informed by the issue of climate.
Marathon for protection of the environment, which already
achieved a global media breakthrough with the film An
Inconvenient Truth, is becoming a standard item at all
important meetings at the EU level and beyond. Almost half
of the joint declaration signed by the EU and Japan at the end
of the summit in Tokyo is dedicated to measures against the
negative consequences of climate change.
Considering the rising prices of agricultural products on the
world stock exchanges and a lively discussion about what kind
of influence average biofuel production has on this, it will be
hard to avoid these questions at the summit in Lima and the
EU-USA Summit. Recently, the President of the United States
of America presented his own vision of how to fight climate
changes, which means that at the beginning of June there
will be two proposals on the table from two global actors.
Although the author of the aforementioned film expressed
his disappointment on Earth Day about the slowness of
the measures for an effective fight against negative climate
change effects, it is the constant presence of this question
in political discussions which raises hope for right and timely
decisions. As an old Slovenian proverb says, “Where there is
smoke there is fire.”
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