Slovenia happy with EU presidency results

Reviewing Slovenia's EU presidency, PM Janez Janša highlighted the EU’s role in calming the situation in Kosovo, and also its unity over the EULEX mission.

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Wednesday, 25.06.2008.

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Reviewing Slovenia's EU presidency, PM Janez Jansa highlighted the EU’s role in calming the situation in Kosovo, and also its unity over the EULEX mission. In less than a week’s time, Slovenia will hand over the EU presidency to France, and Jansa addressed the European Parliament for the last time in the capacity of European Council president. Slovenia happy with EU presidency results The Slovenian president took the opportunity to highlight the important role of “calming the situation in Kosovo and the Western Balkans in general.” “We’re pleased that we’ve coordinated practical measures, and that despite fears that existed in January, when we spoke of these priorities and when I was answering your questions concerning the situation in the region, we can say that the situation in the region is considerably more stable,” he told MEPs. Jansa added that the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) network had been closed, that talks on visa regime abolishment had begun, that a single system of instruments for financing projects in the region had been introduced, and that there was unity over EULEX. Following the Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, the Slovenian prime minister said that this had been a question of the old political challenge, of how to obtain majority backing for draft reforms even when “it’s going well, when no big external dangers are perceived, and when we see that today’s generations live a lot better than yesteryear’s.” he added that it was necessary to consider why rejection had occurred, and how to explain to Europeans why they needed the new Lisbon Treaty, for which, he believed, time was needed. Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel said that he was very happy that the SAA had been signed during the Slovenian presidency, and that Serbia had effectively been in the spotlight of the whole of the EU. “The most important thing is that it paid off: Serbia’s progressive forces are taking the leading position, the Serbian people see the EU as a friend,” Rupel told RIA Novosti ahead of the Russia-EU summit. Janez Jansa (FoNet, archive)

Slovenia happy with EU presidency results

The Slovenian president took the opportunity to highlight the important role of “calming the situation in Kosovo and the Western Balkans in general.”

“We’re pleased that we’ve coordinated practical measures, and that despite fears that existed in January, when we spoke of these priorities and when I was answering your questions concerning the situation in the region, we can say that the situation in the region is considerably more stable,” he told MEPs.

Janša added that the Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) network had been closed, that talks on visa regime abolishment had begun, that a single system of instruments for financing projects in the region had been introduced, and that there was unity over EULEX.

Following the Irish rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, the Slovenian prime minister said that this had been a question of the old political challenge, of how to obtain majority backing for draft reforms even when “it’s going well, when no big external dangers are perceived, and when we see that today’s generations live a lot better than yesteryear’s.” he added that it was necessary to consider why rejection had occurred, and how to explain to Europeans why they needed the new Lisbon Treaty, for which, he believed, time was needed.

Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel said that he was very happy that the SAA had been signed during the Slovenian presidency, and that Serbia had effectively been in the spotlight of the whole of the EU.

“The most important thing is that it paid off: Serbia’s progressive forces are taking the leading position, the Serbian people see the EU as a friend,” Rupel told RIA Novosti ahead of the Russia-EU summit.

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