Oblivion? (08.02.2009)
In response to Croatian president Stipe Mesić's recent proposal of a reconciliation meeting involving him and his Slovene and Italian opposite numbers Türk and Napolitano, the Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini gave an interview that was published in the Trieste daily Il Piccolo on Monday 5 January. In the course of this interview he made the following statement: 'I have often said that Fascism was an absolute evil, but with the same frankness I have to insist that for too long we have forgotten about the actions of Tito's soldiers and the Communist forces, who were responsible for terrible massacres.' (An opinion by the historian professor Joľe Pirjevec)

"Resistance, Suffering, Hope" (15.12.2008)
The Slovenes survived the threatening periods in their history due to the two characteristics – to the ability for adaptation and to the capability to resist when the circumstances became unbearable. In 1941 they were unbearable. The existence of the Slovenes was at stake. (The launch of the book in the European Parliament)

Jőrg Haider and the politics of polarization (20.10.2008)
The Austrian far-right politician Jorg Haider who on 10 October died in a car crash was one of the most polarizing European figures. He played pathetically with the emotions and mastered populist methods in politics.

Tourists' protest against »Vignette« on highways in Slovenia (01.09.2008)
I received a letter by which a visitor from Germany justifiably complains of hasty introduction of the »Vignette« on Slovenian highways this summer. I agree that particularly the method of introduction caused a lot of harm to Slovenian tourism for the period to come. In my view this decision was taken as a part of pre-election campaign of the centre-right government as it »positively« discriminates Slovenian users of highways at the expenses of foreigners.

Joint celebration of Burns and Preąeren (08.02.2008)
What have in common national poet of Scotland Robert Burns (1759-1796) and the greatest Slovene poet France Preąeren(1800-1848)? The Scottish organizers of traditional Burns celebration in Brussels thought that the two have a lot in common; restless, rebellious and brilliant minds decisively helped their respective peoples in searching for a national identity. I was one of the speakers that evening and here is my speech on January 29 in Brussels:

A Look at Slovenia in the Light of Contemporary Liberal Thinking (07.02.2008)
It is difficult to come up with an impartial verdict on the way a country is governed. There are no absolute criteria for measuring the success or otherwise of a particular regime. How many points do we take away from the rule of law when the independence of the press is restricted, say, or when hate-speech is tolerated? At what point of development is it possible to speak of the abuse of democracy, when government that respect electoral procedures routinely ignore the constitutional limits to their power and destroy the system of checks and balances in the name of ‘the general will’ or by appealing to the pursuit of ‘the common good’?

Changes of money in Slovenia in 20th Century (06.02.2008)
On January 8 I had a pleasure to present an exhibition in the European Parliament which is a sort of journey into the time. Symbolically, through the frequent changes of currency, the exhibition embraces lives of several generations of people who lived in various state types and under diverse domestic or foreign rules in today’s Slovenia.

History of Second World War did not begin on May 1 1945 (08.03.2007)
From: MUSCARDINI Cristiana Sent: 09 February 2007 12:59 To: MEP & ASSISTANTS Cc: Parlement Européen Subject: MEMORY DAY FOIBE'S VICTIMS _______________________ From: DRCAR MURKO Mojca Sent: 13 February 2007 17:08 To: MUSCARDINI Cristiana; MEP & ASSISTANTS Cc: Parlement Européen Subject: RE: MEMORY DAY FOIBE'S VICTIMS

Mojca Drčar Murko: Self-portrait (05.03.2007)
The book published in Ljubljana in January 2007 was conceived as a selection of texts form the Slovene original which are in my opinion relevant to the knowledge of Slovenia in Europe. The following three articles from the English edition deal with Slovene-Italian relations.

Relations with Italy: specious goodwill (27.02.2006)
The announcement by Slovenian President Janez Drnovąek, that he is inclined to have a “reconciliation” meeting with the Italian President, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, and Croatian President Stipe Mesić – as he stated on RTV Ljubljana on 20 February, such a meeting would be held in Gorizia and Nova Gorica – is very unfortunate. Who is supposed to be conciliatory towards whom? And as a threesome? All equally to blame? In the wider context of current events between the three countries, and especially in light of the recently issued law “returning” Italian citizenship to the inhabitants of former Italian territories in Slovenia and Croatia, this is even counter-productive for Slovenia.

Italy (13.02.2006)
One-minute speech at the plenary session of the European parliament Strasbourg, February 13

The speech at the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Concentration Camp Ljubelj (Slovenia) - June 11, 2005 (10.06.2005)
In order to conceal the crimes at the concentration camps, on 26 November 1944 Heinrich Himmler ordered the destruction of all the crematoria at Auschwitz. These were actually not destroyed, but merely dismantled and transported to Mauthausen. Ten new gas ovens were ordered from the Topf Company of Erfurt that were to be set up along the railway line near Mauthausen. Which groups of "inferior" people were to be killed and burned here only twelve weeks before the end of the war? (The French translation follows the English text.)

The threat for the autonomy of the public broadcasting in Slovenia (17.04.2005)
"As a former journalist and the president of the Court of Honour of the Association of the Slovenian journalists from 1984 to 1986, who has fought for the autonomy of the press under the conditions of the authoritarian regime, I am shocked that the Prime Minister of Slovenia Mr. Janez Jansa twenty years after, under the rule of law, still treats public radio and television as the state-owned institution in the service of the current government." This is an emphasis from the statement I made during the session of the Intergroup for Press, Communication and Freedom on 14 April 2005 in Strasbourg.

Does Italy question the Treaty of Peace? (21.02.2005)
The background of a "remembrance day" as a covert attempt to defame the Slavs, in particular the Slovenians