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Slovenia: Towards a new national flag

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Changing the national symbols?

State Redesign.

Ten years after the independence the pleaders for new state symbols in Slovenia - flag, coat of arms and even the name of the state - are louder then ever. The official initiative was set in motion by the member of Parliament from the ruling LDS Jožef Skoljc. He supports the change of the flag and coat of arms so that Slovenia would gain more easily identifiable state symbols instead of the current that are similar to symbols of other countries.
Beside the name, that many in the world confuse with the name of Slovakia, the flag is problematic also because it is equal or similar to flags of large number of other countries. The supporters of the state symbol changes percieve already in the change itself a good marketing move, because that would make Slovenia identifiable at last in the world and it would separate it from the group of transition countries with monotonously similar state symbols, developed in XIXth century in region from Triglav to Ural by copying of the Russian tricolour.
To persuade public that it does not go about a marketing whim, the pleaders for the state symbols changes refer to a pool made by Eurobarometar on the popularity of European Union member candidate states among the citizens of the Union. The res