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The Mix-Up has claimed yet another high-profile victim. (source)
The Eternal Slovenia-Slovakia Mix-Up usually just results in gaffes, but last month it nearly got Slovenia out of trouble with the EU.
One Friday last month, the EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas criticized Slovakia’s poor environmental legislation and urged the country to catch up with the rest of Europe. He meant Slovenia, of course, not Slovakia. In fact, according to the commission’s analysis, Slovakia has a stellar legislative track record and should be considered a model example for the continent. But what did they get for all their hard work? An undeserved dressing down from the environment commissioner.
Unfortunately, what could have been the perfect crime for Slovenia was hastily uncovered and corrected. Not that many Slovenes or Slovaks cared either way.
(Thanks Boštjan!)
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Hope Slovakia actually implements its stellar legislation and that Slovenia follows suit as soon as possible.
Maybe Slovenia and Slovakia should merge?
The new country, Slovekia, would then consist of North Slovekia, whose capital Bratislava would take all the beating, and South Slovekia, whose capital Ljubljana would gracefully receive all the praise for being a “beacon of democracy” or whatever the phrase is…
And we could have “Hej Slovenci” as our anthem, since Slovaks call themselves Slovenci, too (don’t they?)…
They do… But they call Slovenes “Slovinci”, which according to the Good Soldier Švejk comes from wine
Well, Pengovsky: who could serve as an example that something is amiss with this conception of Slovenci?
They don’t (call themselves Slovenci)… they call themselves Slováci… and the women are Slovenky
Igor: THX for clearing this up. They call their language slovensko, though. So maybe something could be done about the song
Vote for Slovekia. Naprej !
Hmmm I see that as a way to further REALLY confuse things, and it’s a very NationStates solution, so that might be amusing. ‘You want to mix us up eh? Bring it ON!’ As for the song, well aren’t all Slavs Slaveni? So doesn’t ‘Hej Slaveni’ work in one way or another anyway?
Well, all those “confusers” would finally get what they thought existed in the first place. First comes an idea, A WORD, and the reality follows behind. Very modern.
Katja: Slaveni in Croatian, Sloveni in Serbian, Slovani in Slovene etc
igor: and Slováci in Slovak
According to Weltgeschichte by Hans F. Helmolt from the end of the 19th century, Slovenians were a people forming several Slovenian kingdoms in the present-day Hungary, Slavonia, Croatia, Carinthia, Carniola, Styria, Gorica (Goerz) land, Burgenland and Littoral.
According to other sources the “slav”-word, with the letter “a”, which is now uniting slavs, appears later, being what the south-slavs were called when migrating to the Balkans.