Former PM, finance minister defend 2013 bailout

Ljubljana, 27 June - The prime minister and chief of treasury at the time of the late-2013 bank bailout defended their decision to salvage banks with taxpayer euros as they appeared on Monday before a parliamentary inquiry investigating the causes of the intervention.

Ljubljana Alenka Bratušek, former prime minister (left), and Uroš Čufer, her finance minister. Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA File photo

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Alenka Bratušek, former prime minister (left), and Uroš Čufer, her finance minister.
Photo: Nebojša Tejić/STA
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