• EU member state since 1st of May 2004
• EURO as local value since 1st of January 2007
• Schengen area since 1st of January 2008
• Surface: 22.000 square kilometers
• Capital: Ljubljana with 290.000 inhabitants
• Population close to 2 million
• Slovenian language as official language
• 16.616 EUR GDP per capita in 2007
• Less than 4% unemployment rate in 2007
• 80,6% of population are Roman Catholic
• 92% of population are Slovene

History: Due to the geographical position of the country, Slovenian history is quite complex.

At various points in Slovenia's history, the country has been part of the Roman Empire, partly the Republic of Venice, the principality Carantania (only modern Slovenia's northern part), the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg Monarchy, the Austrian Empire (later known as Austria-Hungary), the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929); partly Kingdom of Italy, between the two World Wars, occupied by Germany, Italy, Hungary and Croatia (1941-1945), and the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1945 until gaining independence in 1991.

On 23 December 1990, a referendum resulted in more the 88% of the electoral body voting for an independent Slovenia proclaiming its independence on 25 June 1991. The next day, the ten-day war with the Yugoslav army started, which ended on 7 July of the same year.

25th of June 1991 is a historical date when Slovenia , for the fist time in the 13 century long history of Slovenian nation, became an independent state.

Slovenia is the only country once to have formed a part of a socialist state to be at the same time a member of the European Union, the Eurozone, the Schengen area the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe and NATO.

Slovenia was the first post-Communist country to hold the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, for the first six months of 2008.