Did the CIA have something to do with the dispute between Croatia and Slovenia regarding the Port of Piran? Secret conversation apparently took place while Dmitry Medvedev was in Slovenia.

 

Slovenian Chief of Diplomacy Karl Erjavec will most likely have to resign following the Piran arbitrage scandal with Croatia. Despite the fact that only two days ago Erjavec was loudly praising the election of the new arbitrator as “a triumph of diplomacy”, the urgent resignation of the president of the International Court of Justice, Ronny Abraham, seems to have left Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia in total shock.

 

The failed attempt to cheat in the arbitrage will cost Slovenians dearly — the process itself is already —  and very visibly —  dead like a Dodo.  There are several theories about how that — now very controversial — communication between the ex-arbitrator from Slovenia and a female clerk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs came to light; one of the theories is that the US had something to do with it.

 

Furthermore, all this happened following the arrival of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to Slovenia. The secretly recorded conversations, which clearly show the failed attempt of Slovenians to “fool the system”, surfaced exactly at the time when the very important guest from Moscow was in Ljubljana. 

 

The US, it should be noted, can’t stand the emerging “new best friends” status between Russia and Slovenia, especially when it comes to energy issues. Apparently, the CIA made the recordings public, in order to spice up the situation for Slovenians, make their lives a living hell.

 

No matter whether this theory is true, the fact remains that the people currently governing Slovenia are seen in Europe as deeply compromised. Although Slovenians are insisting, there's no way that the arbitrage process could continue under such circumstances. In the long run, the consequences for Slovenian politics will be extremely tough, because it seems it's about time for old debts to be accounted for. Namely, Slovenia worked very hard a while ago in order to prevent Croatia from joining the EU — and this lasted for almost a year. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, analysts don't seem to think that the arbitration scandal, as well as the ever-broadening dispute between the two neighboring countries will actually affect the relations of Croatia and Slovenia in the long run.  

Those relations haven't really been ideal for years, but the economic cooperation between the two countries continues. Slovenians are among the best guests on the Croatian Adriatic coast.

 

 

Quiet Cerar

 

The Prime Minister of Slovenia, Miro Cerar — who exchanged a set of notes worthy of a first-grader with his Croatian counterpart Zoran Milanovic is keeping quiet. Meanwhile, Slovenian media are increasing the pressure on Erjavec to step down. "Let him get more engaged with his party of Old Age Pensioners", writes "Delo".