LEARNING TO LOVE LJUBLJANA

摘要

Sovereign countries adopt reform-minded agendas for many reasons. Some actively pursue it, whether for ideological or political reasons. For others, it can become the last remaining course of action once a nation's finances hit the wall. Slovenia falls firmly in the latter camp. A small but relatively wealthy Central and Eastern European nation with strong trading ties to Austria and Italy, it became the first nation to declare independence from Yugoslavia after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and, in 2004, the first Balkan member of the EU.