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Prime Minister Pahor on a sustainable vision of Slovenia’s future
At today’s press conference at Vila Podrožnik, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Borut Pahor, and the State Secretary, Jožef Školč, presented a contribution to the design of a sustainable vision of Slovenia’s future entitled "Which Path to Take after the Crisis?" together with the authors Marta Gregorčič, Matjaž Hanžek, Lučka Kajfež-Bogataj, Ana Murn, Lev Kreft, Dušan Plut, Tine Stanovnik and Jože Trontlj. The main intention of the contribution is to initiate public and expert deliberation on what we must do and which paths we must consider in planning the future if we want to live better lives.
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Prime Minister Pahor opened by stressing that the group of scholars present is definitely credited with "having prepared a document that I hope is controversial enough to draw the attention of the general public". The Prime Minister said that the global economic crisis is not only an economic, financial and social crisis but also a crisis of values that "has posed the question to the world’s academic public as to whether we are witnessing a revaluation of values that in fact requires us to confront the issue of a new development paradigm". He went on to say that it is the responsibility of political authorities to create conditions enabling each individual to demonstrate a creative personality to the extent of his/her abilities, knowledge and diligence.
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The press conference participants also pointed out that the paper does not offer easy answers to the questions posed; its main purpose is to trigger necessary dialogue on outstanding issues which have to be addressed in order to deliberate on the future as well as on the current situation.
At the end of the press conference, Prime Minister Pahor said that the Government is preparing a package of essential short-term measures to remedy the economic crisis and a package of structural reforms to be discussed as part of the social dialogue at the beginning of the year: "The desired effects of the reforms include a more competitive economy and a society with greater solidarity."