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Prime Minister Alenka Bratušek receives trade union representatives
Slovenian Prime Minister, Ms Alenka Bratušek, received today representatives of trade unions. Besides Gregor Virant, Minister of the Interior, Anja Kopač Mrak, Minister of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities, Dušan Kumer, State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, and Mateja Vraničar, State Secretary at the Minister of Finance, the meeting was attended by representatives of the Slovenian Association of Free Trade Unions, Confederation of Trade Unions of Slovenia PERGAM, Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions of Slovenia, Trade Union Confederation 90 of Slovenia, Confederation of New Trade Unions of Slovenia – Independence, Slovenian Union of Trade Unions – Alternative and Association of Workers’ Trade Unions of Slovenia – Solidarity. The Prime Minister opened the meeting by the explanation that the Government had defined, at today's session, the breakdown of expenditure for 2014 and 2015 and that individual ministries were assigned a task of reviewing and preparing possible measures, which are, however, still too early to discuss. Both the representatives of the Government and the representatives of trade unions agreed that the dialogue between social partners will be much more productive when concrete draft measures have been put forward, and the Prime Minister concluded the meeting by saying that there should not be "our" and "your" side in the dialogue, but that compromises should be reached together.