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It seems that the major danger for Slovenia is crucially connected to the inability of our politicians to separate "their" and define "our" common interest, they don't understand that their interest must be also our interest if they want to be credible. Let's see.

A good example is the now ex-Minister of the Economy, Stanko Stepišnik, who is a member of the ruling Positive Slovenia. PM Alenka Bratušek didn't understand that for our common interest, the person who represents the Slovenian economy should be an expert and not some local businessman without any political experience. She just followed her own interests to satisfy different inter-party political and personal interests. I will leave open the small possibility that she just didn't realise, at the time, that Mr Stepišnik was not fit to be a leading minister in the government and that she will not make the same mistake again.

Let's go ahead with the second ex-minister, the Health Minister Tomaž Gantar from the Pensioner's Party. He didn't understand that our common interest is that he prepares comprehensive health reform, instead he followed his and the Pensioner's Party interests and he has now stepped down allegedly because of a major divergence of opinion in the coalition and has organised a PR campaign that suits both his and the Pensioner's Party interests.

We just cannot forget the behaviour of the opposition. They all have a full mouth of "care for Slovenia" (and this goes for both left and right parties, the concept is more or less the same, just the roles change every few years). In practice they see only "their interests". This contest between the coalition and opposition is of course logical and normal in a democracy, but to offset the wider interest of the country for self-promotion is just too much and the "cancer" of Slovenian politics. Recent behaviour of the Slovenian Democrats who were prepared to spit on their own country on the world stage just to serve the very narrow interests of their party is just not statesmanship behaviour. This was also the premise behind the motion to oust the Finance Minister. The reason: controlled liquidation of two smaller banks which was coordinated with the EU and the removal of an SDS MP from the position of non-executive director of the bad bank. Understand, if you can, how an MP can, at the same time, be a company director?

The most recent case of government dilettantism is the reorganisation of Slovenian promotion. Not even a year old, the SPIRIT agency will now be dissolved into three pieces. Without analysis, by rapid government procedure, just like that, obviously there is once again some interests that are definitely not our common interest.