Bled Strategic Forum tackling new challenges

Foreign Minister Karl Erjavec stressed in his address that "we are facing new international actors" and "still struggle to address climate change and its negative global impact".

He called on the participants to not only focus on this, but to dedicate discussions to new realities and "how to use them to make a better future".

Prime Minister Miro Cerar noted that new challenges along with digitalisation and new technologies, which had "become the key driver of progress in society", demanded new approaches.

He also touched on the EU, stressing that the bloc was determined to move on: "We need more integrated EU, built on the fundamental values and principles, a champion of the rule of law, capable of properly addressing the challenges of our time."

President Borut Pahor also called for increased integration of the EU in the economy, technology, politics...

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