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EurActiv (24 July 2020)

By Žiga Turk 

Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Janša is the strongest challenger to a status quo in which the left has been in power in the country for too long, writes Žiga Turk.

Žiga Turk, a professor, two-time minister in Slovenia’s government and former secretary-general of the Reflection Group about the Future of Europe, writes about growth, innovation, technology, sustainable development, creativity. He first published this commentary on BlogActiv. 

Since Janez Janša took over the government of Slovenia this March, the left is in shock that they lost power. Despite COVID, they are protesting every Friday in the capital Ljubljana, hooded Antifa included. On the international stage, there have been ongoing attempts to portrait Slovenia as another illiberal democracy in the making.

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