LJUBLJANA, April 15 (Hina) - Southeastern Europe, especially the Western Balkans, will be one of Slovenia's foreign policy priorities after it joins the European Union on May 1, the Director of the European Affairs Service, Andrej
Engelman, said at a press conference on Thursday.
LJUBLJANA, April 15 (Hina) - Southeastern Europe, especially the
Western Balkans, will be one of Slovenia's foreign policy priorities
after it joins the European Union on May 1, the Director of the
European Affairs Service, Andrej Engelman, said at a press conference
on Thursday.#L#
"As a member of the European Union, Slovenia will become actively
involved in talks on the admission of Romania and Bulgaria, and will
also participate in decision making processes regarding the start of
talks with Turkey and Croatia," Engelman said after a government
session.
He announced that Slovenia would peg its currency, the tolar, to the
euro in September as part of the European exchange rate mechanism ERM2
and that it would join the Schengen information system at the end of
2006.
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