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Slovenia A Challenge Unmet3 comments, 0 called-out Comment Now Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments Comment Now Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments Joseph A. Mussomeli U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One problem with Facebook, and having a global network of friends worldwide, is it can make you complacent about meeting in person when you actually happen to be in the same city. I made a point, therefore, of looking up Joseph A. Mussomeli, the U.S. Ambassador to Slovenia, before our plane took off. (I had friended him through a Slovenian relative after my last trip here in 2012.) Mussomeli is a big fan of using social media for outreach, particularly given Slovenia’s small population (just over two million). And he has made his presence known wherever possible–attending events all over the country. He’s been in the capital, Ljublana, since November 2010. Before that he had been stationed in Kabul, Manila, and Cairo among other cities in a distinguished diplomatic career. “My wife wanted to go somewhere it wasn’t hot,” he told me when we sat down in his office at the embassy. [url=http://www.goldvk.com/Game.gw2_us.Guild Wars 2.gw2.Gold.Info.aspx]gw2 gold[/url] But Mussomeli was not a stranger to the region. In the 1970s, he backpacked through Yugoslavia and still has warm memories of the people and the places he visited back in the days of Tito. His job now is to help encourage the Slovenian government to privatize more of its economy, which is still heavily state controlled more than 20 years since it declared its independence from Yugoslavia. (Indeed,the government employs almost 30% of the population.) Even the grocery stores remain the property of the state. Mercator, a grocery chain with an outlet right around the corner from our hotel in Ljubljana, may go private, I’m told, selling to Croatian owners. But the problem is they should have sold years before when the Euro was stronger and the economy here was better. [url=http://www.goldvk.com/Game.gw2_us.Guild Wars 2.gw2.Gold.Info.aspx]guild wars 2 gold[/url] The profit now is but a shadow of what it could have been. That in a nutshell is the challenge. The trade unions are still strong here. The leftist politicians, former communists, as my relatives tell me, still have the full support of the country’s biased media. A case in point is the status of Janez Janša , the man responsible for spearheading Slovenia’s breakaway from Yugoslavia in 1991.* Most recently prime minister from February 2012 to March of this year, he is now facing corruption charges and the real prospects of a prison term if the Slovenian district court’s recent ruling about his alleged role in a sweetheart deal with Finnish manufacturers is upheld by the European Court of Human Rights. But the case against him seems at least in part politically motivated, and if the European court overturns the Slovenian judge, it will be a black eye for the country’s reputation. The political infighting is just one symptom. For a population as highly educated, per capita, as Slovenia’s, it’s remarkable to American visitors how economically paralyzed the society is. [url=http://www.goldvk.com/Game.gw2_us.Guild Wars 2.gw2.Gold.Info.aspx]gw2 gold[/url] There are lots of reasons for this, as my relatives tell me. Yugoslavia was never as dependent on Soviet support as other countries in the Eastern bloc. Slovenia did not suffer the bloodshed that other Yugoslavian states did when it broke away. Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down Croatia in the EU: A Disaster Waiting to Happen Richard Levick Contributor xboter 2014

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