Primorske Novice: From Chaos to Stalemate

Koper/Nova Gorica, 22 February - The bill to protect the rights of the Slovene ethnic minority in Italy has been on a long slide since last September. The bill has been pushed from the daily agenda of the Italian parliament on several occasions by "more important" issues. When it seemed the bill was going to be placed on the daily agenda in the last week of February, it was pushed along the slide once again, this time until March, but it will probably be even later, possibly after the elections given the chaotic political situation in Italy. In the case that the center-left coalition performs poorly in the elections or that the right wins outright, it could happen that ethnic Slovenes will have to start all over again, was written in Tuesday's edition of Primorske Novice.