[Slovenia] Years Of Change And Challenge

In just over a decade, Slovenia has gained independence and moved relatively smoothly out of a closed market federation into a free market community. In this paper, GMPA looks at how Slovenia's hollow glass industry and some of its main players - the glassware makers and machinery builders - have faced the changes and challenges of recent years, and how they are now preparing to meet those which full membership of the EU, scheduled for 2004, will undoubtedly bring.