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Alongside the establishment of independent statehood in 1991, Slovenia has pursued integration with the West, expressed through full membership of the EU. ‘Europeanisation has become a kind of substitute for the old ideology’ (Fink-Hafner and Lajh 2003), with EU membership becoming a strategic goal of Slovenian foreign policy even before the country’s formal independence.
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Krašovec, A., Lajh, D. (2010). Slovenia. In: Lodge, J. (eds) The 2009 Elections to the European Parliament. EU Election Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230297272_27
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