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Prime Minister Pahor attends the Eastern Partnership Summit in Warsaw

The Slovenian Prime Minister, Borut Pahor, who is attending the Eastern Partnership Summit in Warsaw, said after the plenary session that we had to be realistic when inviting to open up EU membership also to the Eastern Partnership states. 'The European Union is currently facing major issues, in particular as regards its financial pillar – the euro zone, and has to first consolidate its own lines,’ assessed the Prime Minister. He also stressed that ‘the EU should not close the doors to new members’.

   

As to the question of the Television Slovenia concerning the cut in Slovenia’s credit rating, he expressed his regret that the predictions he had made in the campaign before the referendum on pension reform were coming true. ‘At that time, I warned the people who voted in the referendum that the rejection of the pension reform would be an obvious sign that the country’s ability to carry out its reforms was weak, which would trigger credit rating downgrades on both the state and banks’, said Mr Pahor. In his view, this downgrade came as no surprise, but ‘it is unpleasant for all of us’, emphasised Prime Minister Pahor.

 

(Photo: Cabinet of the Prime Minister)

   

In the opinion of Prime Minister Pahor, the future will acknowledge that ‘the discussion on reforms that I was trying to lead as a Prime Minister was not a discussion to be accepted or not, it was an inevitable fact’. In this context, he again stressed there was no alternative to the reform policy even if people in elections put their trust in somebody else to run the country.