Carinthia must enact place-name sign comprise

Slovenian Prime Minister Borut Pahor and Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann on Tuesday set up the first of 164 bilingual place-name signs in places where Slovenian minorities live, ending years of dispute between Slovenia and the Austrian state of Carinthia. The left-liberal daily Delo hopes that Carinthia will be consistent in implementing the place-name sign compromise: "Carinthia's hostile policy towards the minority has undermined the country's very foundations, despite the efforts to conceal this. The national media often describe Carinthia as Austria's Greece because the entire state had to step in to remedy the catastrophic consequences of state governor Jörg Haider's policies after his death by nationalising the former regional bank [Hypo Alpe-Adria-Bank]. So far there has been no epilogue of tardy justice to make up for Haider's pretentious waffle at the expense of the minority. ... What is needed is the full and unequivocal implementation of all the stipulations negotiated in the April 2011 place-name sign compromise."

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