A slide towards autocracy has stopped and the economy is roaring
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskIn the past few years Mr Jansa, who has been in and out of government since 1990, has railed against a supposed communist “deep state” and the media, both of which he said were out to get him. Like Mr Orban, he attacked his enemies as “puppets” of George Soros, a Hungarian-born billionaire and philanthropist. Like Hungary, Slovenia under Mr Jansa had been steadily moving in an autocratic direction.
When he took over a small Green party in January Mr Golob was a relative unknown, despite dipping in and out of national politics for decades. Nonetheless his party won a whopping 34% of the vote in April. Along with his coalition partners, Mr Golob now commands a comfortable 53 of 90 seats in parliament.
In his youth Mr Golob was a whitewater kayaking fan and competed in Yugoslav teams abroad. Now he laments he has no time to relax while he works to make sure that the “future is something to be joyous about and not to be afraid of”. In the meantime, he has to keep the lights on. His father did the same on a more modest scale as the manager of a hydropower plant. Mr Golob studied electrical engineering and for 17 years ran a successful energy company.
In terms of foreign policy the government plans not only to end the era of Orban-imitation, but also to make new friends. Tanja Fajon, the new foreign minister, was a member of the European parliament for almost 13 years and a journalist in Brussels for eight years before that. The era of alliances with Poland and Hungary despite their questionable commitment to European values is over, she says. The focus is now on France, Italy and Germany.
Where Slovenia can make a difference in influencing policy is in the western Balkans. Ms Fajon has long championed bringing the region into the, but a challenge looms which could lead to disagreements with the friends she hopes to make. Ms Fajon worries that making Ukraine an official candidate to join thewill raise false hopes there. At the same time, she thinks it will suggest to countries in the western Balkans that accession rests on politics, rather than reform.
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