Slovenian managers uneasy over Kosovo

Heads of Slovenia's leading companies are asking their government to be "careful" when it comes to Kosovo's status.

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Heads of Slovenia's leading companies are asking their government to be "careful" when it comes to Kosovo's status. Slovenia's Economy Minister Andrej Bajuk met with the managers in Brdo pri Kranju yesterday, ahead of an EU ministerial meeting there today, to introduce the priorities that the Slovenia will have during its EU presidency. Slovenian managers uneasy over Kosovo Ljubljana holds the rotating six-month EU presidency, which it took over from Portugal on January 1. The leaders of the Slovenian business community used the opportunity to warn Bajuk of the sensitive question of Kosovo, reporters learned. Gorenje CEO Franjo Bobinac said that his country's EU presidency "could produce political risk in the Western Balkans." For this reason, he pleaded with the minister to make sure that Slovenia is "careful when it comes to Kosovo's status," since "all of Slovenia's economy, to a high degree, depends on the Western Balkans." "This is not only a political issue – it could fairy soon become an economic one," Bobinac said at the meeting. Bajuk offered the managers guarantees that the government in Ljubljana was aware of the "importance of the Serbian market," as well as others of the Western Balkans, for the Slovenian economy. He offered assurances that the Slovenian authorities are aware that any "ill thought through moves" could harm that country's economy.

Slovenian managers uneasy over Kosovo

Ljubljana holds the rotating six-month EU presidency, which it took over from Portugal on January 1.

The leaders of the Slovenian business community used the opportunity to warn Bajuk of the sensitive question of Kosovo, reporters learned.

Gorenje CEO Franjo Bobinac said that his country's EU presidency "could produce political risk in the Western Balkans."

For this reason, he pleaded with the minister to make sure that Slovenia is "careful when it comes to Kosovo's status," since "all of Slovenia's economy, to a high degree, depends on the Western Balkans."

"This is not only a political issue – it could fairy soon become an economic one," Bobinac said at the meeting.

Bajuk offered the managers guarantees that the government in Ljubljana was aware of the "importance of the Serbian market," as well as others of the Western Balkans, for the Slovenian economy.

He offered assurances that the Slovenian authorities are aware that any "ill thought through moves" could harm that country's economy.

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