Slovenia: No Referenda Against Austerity Policy

Politics ♦ Published: December 20, 2012; 00:04 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Slovenian Constitutional Court decided that the Slovenians will not hold a public vote on the creation of a bad bank and the privatization policy.

Slovenia: No Referenda Against Austerity Policy / Picture: © Vindobona.org

Slovenia´s opposition parties and the trade union fights against the austerity policy of the centre-right government by all means. In the last week, the opposition parties criticized the austerity cuts of Jansa´s cabinet massively.

The opposition criticized that the recession has even deepened and that poverty and unemployment are growing. Besides that, Slovenian trade union…