[joan]

"We got more out of Yugoslavia than the Austro-Hungarian Empire and I am not convinced we will get as much out of the EU."

Slovenia was a poor and neglected province of Austria before Yugoslavia existed.

[vladimir998]

And now it is a richer and more lauded republic since Yugoslavia ceased to exist.

[antinomian]

"Slovenia was a poor and neglected province of Austria before Yugoslavia existed."

That's true. But wasn't there also a lot of separatist agitation and even some terrorism by the Slovenes against the Austrian government?

I think individuals were probably more free under the Austro-Hungarian Empire than they are now. And certainly more so than under the Communist regime.

[Clemenza]

Trieste (now part of Italy, but once heavily Slovenian) was the major port of the empire.

Interestingly enough, my Great-Grandfather's papers when he entered this country in 1906 say "Austria" even though he was ethnically Polish.

[austrian]

“We got more out of Yugoslavia than the Austro-Hungarian Empire and I am not convinced we will get as much out of the EU.”
Slovenia was a poor and neglected province of Austria before Yugoslavia existed.

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this report is totally biased. maybe true that slowenia got more out of yugoslavia than from the austrian empire but this was about a hundret years ago, so i guess every one has a better life standart now then we did have 100 years ago. and slowenia is richer and more developed now as they only could have dreamed about while they have been part of yugoslavia. so they are way better off now then they have been ever in the past.