Conference to Look for Alternative to EU Economic Policy

Ljubljana, 3 April - Economists, social scientists and representatives of trade unions and other pressure groups are meeting in Ljubljana later on Thursday to discuss possible alternatives to EU economic policies. The Alternative ECOFIN as the two-day conference is dubbed would like to draw attention of EU finance ministers meeting at Brdo to their "faulty" policy.

Ljubljana
Dusan Semolic, the head of Slovenia's largest trade union, the ZSSS, presenting the Alternative ECOFIN, a meeting of economists, social scientists and representatives of trade unions and other pressure groups which will discuss possible alternatives to EU economic policies.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
From left to right: Alternative ECOFIN secretary Anela Softic presenting the Alternative ECOFIN, a meeting of economists, social scientists and representatives of trade unions and other pressure groups which will discuss possible alternatives to EU economic policies.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
From left to right: Alternative ECOFIN secretary Anela Softic Dusan Semolic, the head of Slovenia's largest trade union, the ZSSS, Karin Kueblboeck of the Austrian think-tank OeFSE and Joerg Huffschmid (far right), a member of a group of economists for alternative economic policy, Euromemorandum Group, presenting the Alternative ECOFIN, a meeting of economists, social scientists and representatives of trade unions and other pressure groups which will discuss possible alternatives to EU economic policies.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
From left to right: Karin Kueblboeck of the Austrian think-tank OeFSE, Faculty of Law lecturer Joze Mencinger, Alternative ECOFIN secretary Anela Softic and Joerg Huffschmid, a member of a group of economists for alternative economic policy, Euromemorandum Group, presenting the Alternative ECOFIN, a meeting of economists, social scientists and representatives of trade unions and other pressure groups which will discuss possible alternatives to EU economic policies.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
From left to right: Faculty of Law lecturer Joze Mencinger, Alternative ECOFIN secretary Anela Softic and Dusan Semolic, the head of Slovenia's largest trade union, the ZSSS, presenting the Alternative ECOFIN, a meeting of economists, social scientists and representatives of trade unions and other pressure groups which will discuss possible alternatives to EU economic policies.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
Karin Kueblboeck of the Austrian think-tank OeFSE presenting the Alternative ECOFIN, a meeting of economists, social scientists and representatives of trade unions and other pressure groups which will discuss possible alternatives to EU economic policies.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
Joerg Huffschmid, a member of a group of economists for alternative economic policy, Euromemorandum Group, presenting the Alternative ECOFIN, a meeting of economists, social scientists and representatives of trade unions and other pressure groups which will discuss possible alternatives to EU economic policies.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
Faculty of Law lecturer Joze Mencinger presenting the Alternative ECOFIN, a meeting of economists, social scientists and representatives of trade unions and other pressure groups which will discuss possible alternatives to EU economic policies.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

Ljubljana
Dusan Semolic, the head of Slovenia's largest trade union, the ZSSS, presenting the Alternative ECOFIN, a meeting of economists, social scientists and representatives of trade unions and other pressure groups which will discuss possible alternatives to EU economic policies.
Photo: Daniel Novakovic/STA

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