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About
Contacts
- office:
Slovenska 27, SLO-1000 Ljubljana, tel.:
+386 1 200 03 15
- European Parliament:
ASP 09 G 253, Rue Wiertz, B-1047 Bruxelles,
tel.: +32 02 284 53 68, fax: +32 02 284
93 68
Personal information:
I was born on July 2, 1942, and am married
to Matija Murko, an art historian. We
have a daughter, Maruša Murko Keber, who
is a lawyer-linguist employed with the
European Court in Luxembourg.
Education:
In 1965, I graduated Ljubljana Law School,
and in 1973 finished my Masters’ Degree
in Law (international law and international
relations) at the Law School of the University
of Zagreb.
While still a student, I began work at the
national radio station in Ljubljana, where
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ten years with a short interruption while
employed at the maritime company, Port of
Koper. By the end of the politically turbulent
sixties, I was regularly publishing articles,
analysing international politic events, and
indirectly commenting on internal politics.
During this same period, I was also working
as a reporter and columnist for several Slovene
newspapers. After briefly working with the
Faculty of Social Sciences, I became a foreign
correspondent for the national Slovene newspaper
DELO, assigned first to Bonn (from 1978 to1982),
later to Rome (from 1989 to 1993), and finally
to Vienna (from 1997 to 2003). The side effect
of my articles advocating human rights, ethical
public discourse, independence of judiciary
and democratisation of then authoritarian
regime was that I began to act indirectly
at the brink of the politics. This happened
during the period of so called Slovenian liberalism
at the end of seventies, but also in the second
half of eighties, during the disintegration
of Yugoslavia and the birth of alternative
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particular under the influence of the Prague
Spring of 1968 and assuming that the time
has come for the experiment of "the
socialism with human face", I become
convinced that the democratisation of the
society could only have a chance within
the fostered civil society. "The march
through the institutions" was our slogan
in that crucial, although not durable, period
of social change.
In the eighties I became active in the Association
of Slovene Journalists and contributed to
developing the code of conduct for the journalists.
As a consequence of the work in the civil
society, my colleagues journalists took
a chance and nominated me as their candidate
for the (indirect) presidential elections
in 1988. The elections aroused big public
attention and this has eventually helped
to bring about the first free presidential
elections in Slovenia a year or so later,
which won Janez Drnovšek, the actual President
of the independent Slovenia.
After the independence, my pro-European
convictions led me to devote myself to writing
about the international foundations of the
new state, international politics and the
status of Slovene minorities in the neighbouring
states. But above all, I was committed to
the integration of Slovenia into the European
Union. This was the reason that I took a
chance in the 2004 and stood as a candidate
on the list of the Liberal Democracy of
Slovenia party for the first elections to
the European Parliament
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©
Mojca Drčar Murko,
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