Welcome to my homepage! On this page you will find information that is updated on a regular basis about my activities in European Parliament in the sixth term (2004 - 2009). As a member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety and the Committee on Regional Development, I will focus primarily on their activities. I will present the key issues discussed by these committees, as well as analyse other important questions concerning European politics. Also, as a member of the European Parliamentary Delegation for relations with the applicant states (Macedonia and Croatia) I will report on these issues as well. You are encouraged to express your opinions to me or to my assistants: Mr. Matevž Krivic, a lawyer and former member of the Slovene Constitutional Court Mrs. Mateja Poljanšek, a biologist, and Mrs. Maja Prelog, a political scientist. Insider's view Protection of animals in experiments Ahead of the vote on the Commission's proposal on the Directive on the protection of animals used for experimental purposes it is necessary that interested broad public knows how the issue is evolving in the Committees of the European Parliament. MORE ABOUT Current Reports Oblivion? 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 Jože Pirjevec) MORE ABOUT