Saturday's issue of the Maribor-based Vecer daily quoted Bajuk as saying that Slovenia encountered some problems in receiving money from European funds.
Slovenia registered a loss of some 50 million euros in its budget in the period from May 2004 when the country joined the Union until this summer, which was the result of problems in obtaining evidence that the country is entitled to certain funds from Brussels.
"Problems lie in a too small number of projects as well as in (our) compliance with rules at all leves," Bajuk said explaining that Eurocrats sometimes tell Ljubljana that Slovenia can do whatever it wants but only with its own money.
"In order to get EU finds, it is necessary to comply with the rules. And, we sometimes have problems to prove that we comply with the rules," Bajuk said.
The minister announced a price jump in Slovenia as of 2007 when the euro should be introduced into this new EU member.