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Prime Minister at the celebration of Reformation Day: "Without Protestant books, memories about our ancestors would be recorded in a different way – the question is in which and whose language"
The Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Alenka Bratušek, today attended the Reformation Day celebration ceremony. In her speech, she emphasised that "without Trubar the idea behind our elementary schooling and generally available knowledge would not be the same; without Protestant books, memories about our ancestors would be recorded in a different way – the question is in which and whose language."
The Prime Minister went on to say: "If we are able to respond to tax dilemmas, bank stress tests and the electoral legislation with the spirit of a poet and the discipline of a Protestant, then Slovenia has found solutions for its future. However, if we just relentlessly defend our own land, push fugitives back to the sea, earn the cake at the expense of another's bread and if we are afraid of telling the truth – then no reform can help us. The battle for the future of Slovenia is thus a fight for the freedom of thought and for the knowledge enabling us to express these thoughts in the right language, a fight for the power to make things happen, a fight for the courage not to give up, and finally a fight for the wisdom that we do nothing at the expense of others."