Slovenia’s road to the EU and its implication

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this paper is to explore implications for Slovenia and EU candidate countries in Eastern Europe by examining Slovenia’s process of EU integration. Slovenia has adopted an independent social democracy based on autonomous decision-making, abandoned Soviet-style socialism based on centralized decision-making, maintained its high trade share with Western European countries, promoted economic reform, It was easy to meet the political and economic requirements for EU accession criteria. However, in the course of the negotiations, the EU commission pointed out the delays in the application of the EU legal system to the Slovenian legal system, the complex process of parliamentary approval, and the structural reform of society as a whole. Particularly poor privatization rate and low level of private sector intermediary role played an obstacle to negotiation. Unlike the Visegrad group, which were in a similar situation but have acted collectively in order to secure sovereignty within the EU, Slovenia was able to secure a favorable political position in the EU and to establish a stable economic growth base through rapid Eurozone accession. However, concerns over the possibility of losing economic sovereignty and losing a good workforce through joining the Eurozone have been raised. In the case of small economies such as Slovenia, it is necessary to pursue EU accession while simultaneously expanding the proportion of education investment to secure a high quality workforce, fostering high value-added industries, and building a financial stabilization system against external economic shocks.

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