Slovenia: Jansa, no funds to compensate the "cancelled"
Strasbourg court has condemned Ljubljana for discrimination
"The state does not even have money for strictly necessary spending," the Slovenian Prime Minister added. The second ruling by the Strasbourg court recognised the "cancelled", ruling that non-Slovenians who were denied citizenship or residence permits in 1991, despite the fact that they had lived in Slovenia for a number of years, were left without social and professional rights.
According to Amnesty International, of the 25,000 "cancelled" from the register of Slovenia's inhabitants in 1991, "13,000 remain without any sort of status and live in precarious social and material conditions". Some experts say that compensation could cost the Slovenian state around 500 million euros. Fears over the high cost of compensation proved crucial during the 2004 referendum in the country, when Slovenian citizens rejected a proposed law to restore a number of social rights deriving from residency to the "cancelled", chiefly Bosnians, Serbs and Kosovans.
Saturday, 7 July 2012
(ANSAmed) - LJUBLJANA, JUNE 29 - Slovenia does not have the funds to compensate around 25,000 of its inhabitants originating from other former Yugoslav republics, known as the "cancelled", a group branded "foreigners" that saw their residence rights removed by Ljubljana after the Slovenia's declaration of independence in 1991. The claim has been made by the Slovenian Prime Minister, Janez Jansa, who was reacting to the ruling by the Strasbourg Human Rights Court, which on Wednesday condemned Slovenia for discrimination.
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