• Website stirs up ghosts of Yugoslavia’s secret service
• Social Agreement signed
• Closure of youth affairs office protested
• Krško resumes sending power to Croatia
• Zeleni Jurij ushers in springtime

• EU negotiating team disbanded
• Slovene Book Days
• Belgrade gets "Diareja"

The list includes UDBA collaborators, officers, functionaries and members of its reserve units. Also on the list are collaborators with the former Yugoslav army’s security service and the Territorial Defense forces, as well as informers, some from the ranks of the Roman Catholic Church. The names of those under surveillance also appear. Names of today’s leading politicians appear in the list on both sides.

Data provided for each person on the list includes their date of birth, the names of their parents, their employment history, citizenship, criminal record and other information. According to article 154 of the criminal code – as well as the constitution – the publication of this sort of personal information is illegal.

Slovene authorities took quick action to make the site inaccessible from local internet providers. The Slovene secret service, SOVA, quickly announced that it cannot confirm the authenticity of the list, since such a list was never put in the archives of its Yugoslav-era predecessor, the SDV. The National Archives have confirmed that the data is not in their files either.

According to Mladina, the website was registered on 9 March in New York, and operates out of Bangkok. Dušan Lajovic, Slovenia’s honorary Consul for Australia and New Zealand, has taken responsibility for providing the information. He has said that he has had the files since 1991, but waited to release them until after the referenda on EU and Nato entry. SDS leader Janez Janša and police chief Marko Pogorevc have both denied allegations that Lajovic got the files from them.

A criminal investigation is currently underway, looking into the charges of revealing state secrets and abuse of personal data. On 23 April, the Oversight Commission of the Work of Security and Information Services reviewed its first report on the affair. The commission has called on all state organs to report on the state of their archives both today and in the past. The commission has determined that UDBA activities until 1986 were kept on microfilm, which were sometimes produced in multiple copies.

The following day, the government was brought up to date. Internal Minister Rado Bohinc and SOVA director Iztok Podbregar informed the government on the investigation. Bohinc predicted that the police investigation will not be concluded quickly. Podbregar said that SOVA is actively participating in the police investigation, and called the release of the information a violation of human rights. Podbregar stressed that SOVA has no ties to the former Yugoslav UDBA; any UDBA records which it may have had at the time of its inception were transferred by law to the Slovene National Archives.

On 22 April, representatives of the government, employers and trade unions initialed the so-called "Social Agreement," which lays out the rights and responsibilities of the three parties in the pursuit of balanced development. The official signing ceremony will take place on Tuesday, 29 April.

The first Social Agreement was signed shortly after independence, but when it expired seven years ago, parties could not agree on a follow-up. This latest round of successful negotiations began more than a year ago, and the current agreement will remain in effect until 2005.

The primary goal of the Social Agreement is to achieve balanced socio-economic development in the country. The agreement is divided into three sections. The first lays out goals for speedy economic development, while the second and third deal with social and legal security.

The Slovene Youth Party (SMS) this week announced its opposition to the government’s plan to eliminate the Office of Youth Affairs, within the Ministry of Education, Science and Sport. The plan is part of the government’s reform of the state administration.

SMS member of parliament Peter Levič told STA that other European countries have such an office, and that its dissolution would be “a step backwards.” Levič also said that, without the office, youth policies “would not be able to be successful.”

On 19 April, the Krško nuclear power plant (NEK) began transferring power to Croatian power authority HEP for the first time in five years. The move follows an agreement which entered into force on 1 April, when Croatia’s HEP became an equal co-owner and co-administrator of the plant together with Slovenia’s ELES.

For 2003, Croatia is to receive roughly 1700 gigawatt hours of electricity from the plant, half of its anticipated annual output.

The move means that Slovenia will now have to increase output at other power plants throughout the country, particularly at the thermoelectric plant at Šoštanj, in order to meet domestic demand. Additional electricity will also have to be imported.

Ljubljana shut off the supply line to Croatia in 1998, after Zagreb insisted that it was a co-owner of NEK and as such did not have to pay for the electricity. According to the agreement, if either HEP or ELES does not pay its share, NEK will shut off the power supply and the surplus electricity can be sold to a third party.

On 24 April, Jurjevanje was celebrated around Slovenia. The holiday celebrates Zeleni Jurij (Green George), a pagan demigod. In earlier eras, shepherds believed that by giving Zeleni Jurij gifts, they would protect their herds from wolves. Originally a shepherd’s holiday, today’s Jurjevanje also includes several aspects of the pagan rites of spring of even earlier eras.

On Wednesday, Zeleni Jurij paid a visit to President Janez Drnovšek in Ljubljana. This Jurij was actually a member of the children’s folklore group Dragatuš, from Vinica. Drnovšek was given a branch, with the inscription "From Bela Krajina to you in white (bela) Ljubljana, together with Zeleni Jurij we bring you this green branch, and with it, spring. Keep it until the next Jurjevanje, and you will have luck and success all year."

The tradition of Zeleni Jurij and the children of Vinica visiting the president to usher in springtime began more than ten years ago, with Slovene independence.

Other events were held throughout the country, including the 13^th Jurij Review of Adult Choruses on Saturday at the Šentjur cultural center. The concert included twelve choruses from around the region.

• From 20 to 26 April, the country celebrated the 8^th annual Slovene Book Days with events throughout the country. Festivities climaxed on 23 April, which UNESCO has declared to be World Book Day. Aside from readings, lectures and other literary events, the week was marked by book fairs held throughout the country, where books were sold at discounted prices to encourage reading among the public. As in past years, special attention was placed on children's books.