Last week in May the representatives of the Alps-Adriatic Centre for Cross-border Co-operation in Klagenfurt visited the community Sevnica with the intention to strengthen and promote the existing contacts. On the working meeting where also the mayor of Sevnica Srečko Ocvirk, the director of community administration Zvone Košmerl and Morana Palovič from the Regional development agency Krško, were present, they discussed the possibilities of cooperation on the field of tourism, too. The guests from Austrian Carinthia visited afterwards the beautiful Sevnica castle.

Photo from left: Morana Palovič, Srečko Ocvirk, Bernard Sadovnik, Filip Warasch und Zvone Košmerl

Minority rights and minority protection are constituent parts of a democratic society ...
The honorary speaker Gerhard Weis from Vienna stressed in his speech the meaning of minority rights in the parliamentary, social-political and national spheres. He supported the way of the started dialogue between the representatives of Carinthian Slovenes and representatives of the homeland organisations. He also mentioned the question of seeking the (historical) truth, formation of opinion ,distinguishing among truth, half-truth and lie and the responsibility of media employees in the society. He mentioned the activities of the Alps-Adriatic Centre in Klagenfurt, which is endeavouring for cross border cooperation among Slovenia, Austria and other South-eastern European countries. He evaluated the minority programmes of Austrian Radio Television (ORF) as necessary and exemplary ... more

How do you evaluate the today s European situation / the situation in the Alps-Adriatic region and what were the comments about the initiatives and activities of the AACC in the recent years?

The "New Europe" significantly and dynamically changed its political picture in the last ten years. The changes - also in the economy - were and always are feelable in the typical European Alps-Adriatic region where numerous initiatives endeavour to catch the actual time trends and to orientate them in the prosperous and at the same time balanced development of the perspectives impulses in the region. Among them the initiatives of the Alps-Adriatic Centre for Cross-border Co-operation (AACC) are for sure recognisable, we are establishing our actual informational network for 8 years-in the sense of the interests and demands and also for the well-being of our partners and economical innovations, what positive echos to our initiatives and activities confirm us continuosly.
It is possible to say that the AACC formation precisely fits the time challenges and that the AACC is faced nowadays with many new trends which co-form the picture of the region where we are active. ... more