Half of Slovenians Do Not Want Croatia in EU

The poll that showed incredible results, was allegedly ordered by a Croatian weekly, and the Slovenians seem to be unrelenting.

According to one poll that a Slovenian news agency published, which was allegedly ordered by a Croatian weekly, 50 percent of Slovenians, or every second one, does not support Croatia’s entry into the European Union.

Around that amount of people would participate in a referendum about accepting Croatia into the Union.

Remember, the last of the many obstacles that Croatia has placed before Croatia in its negotiations with the EU would be a referendum amongst Slovenians if Croatia should enter the EU.

The referendum has been announced on a number of occasions, but has not yet been carried out. Most Slovenian arguments for the blockade of Croatia are based on the alleged defining of borders in the accession documentation. Croatian diplomacy claims that there are n such documents, but Slovenians warn of additional documents.

Referendum increasingly likely

However, the additional documentation serve only to better explain Croatian stances to European Union negotiators, for example, some legal regulations, and are not taken as legally valid documents.

However, the border dispute, especially in the region of the Piran Bay or Savudrija Bay, are not the only “thorn” in Slovenia’s eye. There is the ecological aspect as well – the problem of the nuclear power plant Krsko and taking care of the nuclear waste, as sharing the responsibility for that in the case that Croatia enters the European Union.

Samuel Zbogar, the Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs, said one week ago that the chances of a referendum in Slovenia are more likely if a solution to the border issue does not come soon.

Maybe we will, if the implementation of this “threat” is carried out, see how accurate the results of the poll from the start of the text are.