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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.
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