· December, 2008

Stories about Slovenia from December, 2008

Central & Eastern Europe: Freedom in the Balkans; Visa Restrictions

  22 December 2008

Ari Rusila examines the Balkan-related results of the Freedom House's Freedom in the World survey at AriRusila’s BalkanBlog, and writes about the Henley Visa Restrictions Index, highlighting the results for countries of Central and Eastern Europe, at AriRusila's BalkanPerspective at Blogactiv.eu.

Slovenia: A Mosque for Ljubljana

  10 December 2008

Sleeping With Pengovsky writes that “the city of Ljubljana is one of the few (if not only) European capital with a substantial Muslim community and without a mosque” and highlights the political obstacles to building the mosque.

The Balkans: Yugo

  1 December 2008

Balkan File and Eternal Remont are saying good-bye to the Yugo cars; the latter posts this joke: “Q: So, what do you call the shock absorbers inside a Yugo? A: Passengers.”