The tourism sector is grappling with multiple challenges, and addressing them effectively will rely heavily on tourism workers, who are hard to come by, speakers at the tourism panel at the Bled Strategic Forum said. The panellists also called for accelerated digitisation to allow the industry to g
Bled Strategic Forum 2023
Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon sees 2023 as a key year for enlargement after Council President Charles Michel identified 2030 as the year both the EU and Western Balkans countries should be ready for enlargement. "The commitment may be important symbolically and politically, but it is important temp
The need for enlargement and the need for reform were in the focus of a panel discussing the role of the EU as a decision maker at the Bled Strategic Forum on 29 August. While the panellists, mostly foreign policy representatives of EU member states, agreed that the EU must undergo a reform process
Having set 2030 as the date by which the EU and the Western Balkans must be ready for enlargement in his address to the Bled Strategic Forum, European Council President Charles Michel told the Slovenian Press Agency in an interview the date was realistic but also ambitious. He trusts there is polit
A panel at the Bled Strategic Forum on 29 August hosted by President Nataša Pirc Musar explored why young people decide to emigrate, especially from the Western Balkans. Corruption, nepotism, lack of opportunity, and politicisation were highlighted as the main reasons.
Nina Vukoslavčević of the In
Nina Vukoslavčević of the In
Multilateralism faces a number of challenges and international institutions are far from perfect, but there is too much at stake for multilateralism to fail, heard a panel that brought together several foreign affairs officials at the Bled Strategic Forum on 28 August.
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The debate highlighted a numb
Prime Minister Robert Golob underlined the importance of international cooperation in combating climate change in his address to the Bled Strategic Forum on 28 August. Slovenia will strive to make climate change a top priority of the UN when it assumes the role of non-permanent UN Security Council
The EU and the Western Balkans must be ready for enlargement by 2030, European Council president Charles Michel said at the opening of the Bled Strategic Forum on 28 August. The region's leaders argued the process should be accelerated.
Michel underlined that a lot of work is still ahead and not on
Michel underlined that a lot of work is still ahead and not on
Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon made the case for global solidarity and strong multilateralism as she addressed the Bled Strategic Forum on 28 August, arguing that cooperation and solidarity are crucial for the future.
"No global challenge can be properly addressed without global action, and
"No global challenge can be properly addressed without global action, and
Ann Linde, Sweden's former minister of foreign affairs, discusses the links between climate change, environmental degradation and security in an op-ed for Bled Strategic Times ahead of the Bled Strategic Forum, offering the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine as a case in point.
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In his op-ed for Bled Strategic Times ahead of the Bled Strategic Forum, Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob makes a call for "global solidarity to save our planet", combining it with an appeal to Russia to end the war of aggression against Ukraine.
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In the first days of August, as I was walking t
Respect for human rights and the rule of law are the core principles of the Council of Europe and the lifeblood of democracy, Dunja Mijatović, the organisation's Commissioner for Human Rights, writes in her op-ed for Bled Strategic Times as she calls on member states to strengthen their commitment
