Bled Panel: Protectionism and Lack of Reform Main Threats

Bled, 31 August - Warnings against protectionism and calls for global action to deal with the root causes of the economic crisis were heard at the outset of the second day of the Bled Strategic Forum at a panel dealing with the crisis as a threat to security.

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The panel on Economic Crisis as a Threat to Security and Development at the 4th Bled Strategic Forum.
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Jan Kubis, executive secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, at the panel on Economic Crisis as a Threat to Security and Development at the 4th Bled Strategic Forum.
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Croatian FM Gordan Jandrokovic at the panel on Economic Crisis as a Threat to Security and Development at the 4th Bled Strategic Forum.
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Head of the Centre for International Relations at the Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences Marjan Svetlicic (left) and former chair of the British House of Lords EU Committee, Lord Grenfell at the 4th Bled Strategic Forum panel on Economic Crisis as a Threat to Security and Development.
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Croatian FM Gordan Jandrokovic at the panel on Economic Crisis as a Threat to Security and Development at the 4th Bled Strategic Forum.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

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Head of the Centre for International Relations at the Ljubljana Faculty of Social Sciences Marjan Svetlicic at the 4th Bled Strategic Forum panel on Economic Crisis as a Threat to Security and Development.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

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Zhu Zushou, director of the European Union Study Centre at the China Foundation for International Studies in Beijing at the 4th Bled Strategic Forum panel on Economic Crisis as a Threat to Security and Development.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

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Former chair of the British House of Lords EU Committee, Lord Grenfell at the 4th Bled Strategic Forum panel on Economic Crisis as a Threat to Security and Development.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

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