On 8 October 1991, Slovenia introduced its own currency and set out on a path of monetary independence. The tolar, its official legal tender at the time, was one of the most important attributes of the Slovenian State. Monetary independence was a precondition in gaining the young country’s international recognition.<\/p>Republic of Slovenia, 20 Years of Independence <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n European Community stepped in to calm things down. The World watched and then responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Between June 1991 and October 1991 they set up their own currency. They did this whilst being threatened by Belgrade and the Yugoslav Army. While fighting a ten day war to stop Yugoslav incursions into their territory. And whilst engaging in peace negotiations with the European Community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I’m sure there were difficulties in doing all of that but they sure didn’t hang about! <\/p>\n\n\n\n If like me you don’t know much about Slovenia here are the basics and a few comparisons with Scotland:<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It sounds like one of those offers that you see on Facebook or that pop up in your email inbox, doesn’t it. Like lose 5kg in a week. Or, Earn thousands selling our products! Aye right. But in 1991 Slovenia did just that. They declared independence from Yugoslavia on 25 June 1991. That wasn’t straightforward. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,296],"tags":[309,30,308,310],"class_list":["post-5575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scottish-independence","category-to-my-unionist-friends","tag-scottish-currency","tag-scottish-independence","tag-slovenia","tag-tolar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weegiefifer.scot\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Slovenia’s Path to Independence. It started well. Here’s the timeline:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Then it got dangerous. Belgrade threatened war. Slovenia resisted. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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So to get back to Slovenia’s Currency<\/h3>\n\n\n\n