Referendum o ulasku Slovenije u Europsku Uniju: međunarodni komparativni pogled
Referendum About Joining Slovenia Into European Union: International Comparative View

Summary/Abstract: The article takes a comparative perspective to review the back¬ground to campaign for and result of the Slovenian EU-accession referendum. The authors describe the EU’s accession referendum campaign in Slovenia as a ‘cat-and-mouse game’ since the ‘yes’ campaign was outstandingly well organised and synchronised in stark contrast to the ‘no’ campaign which was poorly organised and came across as the representative of a narrow set of interests. Irre¬spective of this, the large victory (almost 90 percent) of the ‘yes’ camp was unexpected as was the relatively low turnout (60,4 per¬cent). Two of the most important reasons for this high support shown at the EU accession referendum can be traced to a broad con¬sensus among po¬litical, social and economic elites and the reorienta¬tion of the most exposed and well-known anti-EU actors towards the NATO acces¬sion referendum that was held simultaneously. Thereby, the article also partially examines the Slovenian NATO-accession referendum but only to the extent that it influenced the campaign and result of the EU referendum.

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