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Prime Minister’s press conference

At today’s press conference, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, presented the key resolutions and decisions adopted at the 35th regular Government session.

  

At today's session, the Government adopted the proposal for the Guarantee Scheme Act of the Republic of Slovenia for natural persons. In order to avoid any consequences of possible non-adoption, the Act will be submitted to the National Assembly for discussion under emergency procedure today. By adopting this Act, the Government will offer guarantees for housing loans to persons in fixed-term employment and young families, as well as to those who lost their jobs after 1 October 2008. The Act provides that young families will be allowed to participate in the guarantee scheme whose total income in the year preceding their raising a loan does not exceed one half of the Slovenian annual salary per individual family member. To this end, the Government will ensure guarantees in the amount of EUR 300 million and undertake a 50% risk. For persons whose employment contracts were cancelled for business reasons, e.g. due to bankruptcy or compulsory settlement of the employer, and who are not pursuing self-employment while raising a loan, the state will earmark guarantees in the amount of EUR 50 million and undertake a 100% risk.

 

(Foto: Tina Kosec/Bobo)

  

At today’s session, the ministerial corps also adopted a proposal for amending the 2009 Joint Personnel Plan for State Administration Bodies. The Joint Personnel Plan will be amended so as to newly lay down the number of permissible employments for 2009, whereby the said number also includes employments required for inspection supervision and drawing on EU funds. It should be pointed out that the Government's decision on the Joint Personnel Plan for State Administration Bodies was fully implemented.

 

At the press conference, Prime Minister Pahor repeatedly commented on developments at the Mura company and said that, in this case, the priority of the Slovenian Government is people who will become jobless. He stressed that the Government bears the responsibility for resolving the accumulated problems; however, in the case of Mura, a long-term solution is not an easy one: "Careful analysis has shown that the five million euros required by Mura does not constitute a long-term solution and is also not enough to resume successful operations, but would only inspire false hope among employees." The Prime Minister added that the Government has been intensively dealing with the Mura problem from the very beginning of its term in office and intends to continue to do so.