My new oped for the Financial Times:
Last week, political change captured headlines globally. Pope Francis took over leadership of 1.2bn Catholics globally, matched by Xi Jinping, with his official ascendance to the presidency over 1.3bn in the People’s Republic of China. In between Beijing and the Vatican (if rather closer to the latter), and somewhat less noticed, the 2m people of Slovenia were also facing a change in government, with the center-right premier Janez Jansa set to be replaced by Alenka Bratušek, the center-left head of Positive Slovenia.
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Cometh the hour, cometh the Čufer? The finance minister in-waiting certainly has an opportunity to prove himself the man – but only if he resists the populist temptation and immediately steers Slovenia towards comprehensive economic reforms. Hopefully, Uroš Čufer is that man. Wednesday will tell.
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