No solution for the 'erased' on the horizon

When Slovenia achieved independence in 1991, around 18,000 people from other Yugoslav republics were erased from its population register and accordingly lost their right of residence. To this day the problem of the so-called 'erased' has not been solved. The government is avoiding a legal solution and instead wants a constitutional amendment which, however, requires a two-third majority in parliament. As a result there is little chance of a successful solution to the affair. Matjaz Albreht comments: "The assurance that special attention would be paid to human rights, justice and legal security was just an empty promise. The proposed amendment of the [constitutional] law is just a mask behind which the government is trying to conceal this scandal before it assumes the EU presidency."

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