{"id":123,"date":"2012-11-27T10:25:49","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T15:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/luka\/?p=123"},"modified":"2012-11-27T11:46:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T16:46:45","slug":"financial-times-slovenia-must-stop-dragging-its-feet-on-privatisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/2012\/11\/27\/financial-times-slovenia-must-stop-dragging-its-feet-on-privatisation\/","title":{"rendered":"Financial Times: Slovenia must stop dragging its feet on privatisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A piece I wrote for the Financial Times (Emerging Markets Section &#8211; beyondbrics) on Slovenia&#8217;s laggard privatization program and how the upcoming presidential elections will affect it.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/beyond-brics\/2012\/11\/27\/guest-post-slovenia-must-stop-dragging-its-feet-on-privatisation\/#axzz2DLMxJ9oI\">Guest post: Slovenia must stop dragging its feet on privatisation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><em>By Luka Oreskovic and Sa\u0161o Stanovnik<\/em><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>On Sunday, Slovenians vote for a new head of state\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/beyond-brics\/2012\/11\/12\/slovenia-political-tremors\/\">in the second round of presidential elections<\/a>. Although the incumbent, Danilo Turk, seemed a certain winner before the first round in November, Borut Pahor, the former centre-left prime minister, surprised pundits and pollsters by winning 40 per cent of the vote \u2013 leaving the two to fight it out again alone.<\/p>\n<p>While the president\u2019s role is largely ceremonial, the people\u2019s choice this time could be critical for Slovenia\u2019s long-term development&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A piece I wrote for the Financial Times (Emerging Markets Section &#8211; beyondbrics) on Slovenia&#8217;s laggard privatization program and how the upcoming presidential elections will affect it. Take a look: Guest post: Slovenia must stop dragging its feet on privatisation By Luka Oreskovic and Sa\u0161o Stanovnik On Sunday, Slovenians vote for a new head of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1807,81744,81751],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-privatization","category-slovenia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/luka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}