 Mae'r bwysig iawn i'r Cymru yw Toc Miroshik, sydd wedi cael ei wneud o'r Sloveniau. Mae'r Cymru yw'r Sloveniau Llywodraeth Cymru yw Llywodraeth Cymru. Mae'r Cymru wedi cael ei wneud o'r Llywodraeth Cymru yw Llywodraeth Cymru yw Llywodraeth Cymru yw Llywodraeth Cymru yw 27. Mae'r Cymru wedi cael ei wneud o'r Cymru yw Llywodraeth Cymru yw'r Ffarranol Cymru, a'r Ffarranol Cymru yn ymgyrchol. Mae'r Cymru yn enwyl i ymwyl yn Llywodraeth Cymru, Llywodraeth Cymru a'r Cyfrifyddiad Cymru, yn ym 2017. Mae'r cyfrif varyddol yn ymddi, mae'n ymddych chi'n Llywodraeth Llywodraeth Cymru, ac yn ymddi Llywodraeth Cymru, a'r ddweud yma ar y slyfynion, ddweud yma ar gyfer yr EY 27. A'r ddweud o'n gweld ymlaen i'r prysgaf, sy'n mynd i'n rhoi'r gweithio ar y dyfodol yma ar gyfer yr EY 27. A'r ddweud o'r gweithio ar y dyfodol yma ar gyfer yr EY 27, rwy'n mynd i'n meddwl ymdweud yn gofynio'r ddweud o'r ddweud Mae'r unig i'r unig i unig i'r unig i yng Nghymru yn rhoi'r blynyddiolion ar gyfer cyfwilio. Felly, sydd y brygwch yng Nghymru â'r gwahanol, mae'r gael ei bod yn cael eu ddweud. Mae'r ddeiligio, oherwydd i'r unig i'r unig i'r 27 ym gwrdd yng Nghymru. Mae'r Dau Cymdeithasol, sydd wedi'i bwysig o'r drwng ar y boel. Mae'n ei ddweud i'r unig i'r unig i'r 27 ym gwrdd yng nghymru. We've had the State of the Union message from President Juncker. We've had President Macron with his ideas. We've had President Tusk with his leaders agenda. All of these are putting out the challenges that the EU 27 is going to have in dealing with the future as it will be after the British leave, but also the future as we want to shape it for EU citizens. It's very interesting to see that you have opened, the Slovenian government has opened a process of debate and dialogue with the citizens on the future of Europe and are holding public discussions because next Wednesday we're going to launch our Prime Minister with Tishirk is going to launch a similar citizens dialogue here and we look forward to hearing about that. So may I give you the floor, State Secretary, and we look forward to hearing the Slovenian perspective on the future. I have to say it's always good to be back to Ireland and to Dublin. We have a lot of similarities, meaning in the character of people I can say we both come from smaller countries, but we are full of joy, I would say, despite the difficult times here. Again, thank you for inviting me here and I will start by assessing the situation which we are in right now or we passed through in the previous years. That situation determines also the current state of play in the European Union itself and the debate on the future of the European Union. So I wouldn't agree with those who said the European Union is constantly in crisis, everything is terrible, it will fell apart, it is a disaster and so on. I think that for Slovenia the European Union did a lot of good things, really a lot of good things. Predominantly if I just made to say we had, we eased the very difficult historic dialogue with all our neighbours. You are aware how difficult the history was in that part of the world and since our membership in the European Union, this dialogue with our neighbours, it became really a sincere one. European Union I would say is not in a crisis European Union now is growing and still do not forget European Union is the largest world economy in the world. This is the positive part but it was influenced in the previous years of course by a hard and harsh economic and financial crisis which did a lot of dividing lines in the European Union itself. We were faced with the growth of the populism probably because the middle class in the European countries was mostly affected by the globalization. We were faced with the growth of populism based on the security situation around the neighbourhood of the European Union, I mean here migration and the management of the migration. We were faced with security challenges not just in the neighbourhood but also inside the European Union, I mean here a new phenomena of terrorism. We had elections in two important countries, France and Germany and we can see in other countries despite the more populist leaders didn't win the election but we see especially in the central Europe also in Germany movement of the electoral body more to the rights and more to the sceptical part of the European Union. And of course we were faced with the most evident phenomena which will tackle the future of the European Union and in fact it triggered the debate on the future of the European Union. And this is, you know it very well, the decision of the UK to abandon membership of the European Union and to leave the European Union, I mean here Brexit. From all these events and the situations basically today we have two division or dividing line in the European Union so it's a sort of cross road in the European Union. The dividing line goes from north to south or between north and south where the countries of north are advocating more austerity, more financial soundness while on the other side the southern or Mediterranean countries are more inclined towards mutualisation or solidarity especially in the financial and economic terms and there is a new division which is based more on various solidarity and burden sharing, this is between eastern and western countries. Some of them in the west in the papers we can read that because of the computation of the central European countries they think that they are talking or they are writing also about the failed integration into European Union which I would not agree entirely or I wouldn't agree at all. But obviously we have a sort of mistrust between eastern and western countries and this is a problem that it will have to be addressed in the debate of the future of the European Union. The consequence of the events in the European Union I just mentioned was a meeting in Bratislava, you mentioned it and the declaration of Bratislava which produced the thoughts about more efficient European Union, more inclined European Union towards people and especially to the young people. The confirmation of Bratislava declaration was at least on the declaratory level within 60th anniversary of European Union in Rome by Rome declaration and of course here we are in the debate of the future of the European Union which already started and it will be intensified probably from January next year. After the composition of the new German government and probably on the anniversary of the so called Elysée Treaty between France and Germany but I will say later much more about this. We are in the face of the debate of the future of the European Union and this debate will be closely connected and also determined by debate on the future European budget meaning the future European multi annual financial framework. This financial framework, this European budget will be severely different I'm afraid from the previous ones not just because one of the largest member countries will at least they announced will go out of the European Union and financial contributions but the priorities of the European Union will be completely new and the priorities will be if we go in substance probably the migration, the completion of the European Monetary Union, the social Europe or social below for European Union, the security and the defence and of course possibly also the democratic reshaping or strengthening of the European Union. So based on this obviously new priorities for the European Union we were faced with several ideas how to shape and how to streamline the debate on future of Europe. We are already faced with on the general affairs council that I attend and still there are many different views how to proceed with the debate. For example, for the beginning we have five scenarios produced by the European Commission and you are all aware of them then we have six scenarios produced by the president of the European Commission and this six scenario is basically a call for to continue in a united manner to continue with united Europe stronger and more democratic Europe in the form of 27 countries. There are some ideas that will have to be discussed in a very serious manner. For example, a call for a qualified majority voting in the field of taxation in the internal market and foreign policy. There are a call for democratic conventions picked out from other speech by French president. So there are plenty of ideas how to make this European Union more efficient, more inclined towards the citizens, more oriented towards unity of eastern and western countries and this is basically a call for to continue as I already said in a manner of united Europe of 27 member countries. On the other side we had a speech of the French president again ideas on a vast majority of the areas in the European Union but basically this speech was oriented towards ability and willing meaning those who are able and willing can go with enforced cooperation on particular areas which means basically this idea is devoted more towards the differentiated integration or some of them they will call it Europe of more speech. In the core of this idea of course is to strengthen the Europe area as a core which will be the most advanced and in more details it is a call for Germany to revamp or to renew Franco-German motor for the further integration. This is the basic idea of the French president and to preserve the unity or the inclusiveness of the 27 member countries the president of the European Council produced the so-called leaders agenda to streamline the debate in the format of 27 on different areas how to renew future European ideas. For example on the European Monetary Union we have still a basic division line and different views how to continue between north and south I already mentioned it between solidarity and austerity or mutualisation. There are different ideas how to reshape the eurozone finance minister parliament or eurozone commission's role and budget role of the eurozone whether it be separate or inside the European Union budget or frame. How to revamp the European Monetary stability mechanism into some ideas into European Monetary Fund and here the basic dividing line is still between Germany and France. Of course President Macron made a very interesting idea and he called to create a united market German Franco market which will be basically a new market he signed a single market if I could understood correctly and as far as I know some ideas are already progressing meaning the harmonisation of the fiscal social and economic policies. This will be much more difficult but on the fiscal part the talks are progressing towards the harmonisation at least on the corporate tax which will be a major step forward but still the observation how to develop how to strengthen eurozone basically are still in a very distant position. The area which is going very much with a higher speed further is the defence. You know that the European defence agency is already there and we are talking now about PESCO political and security cooperation which will be triggered this month and Slovenia of course will be part of it. But this is the area probably that it has a potential to go particularly because of Brexit strongly, much more strongly forward. The debate that will determine the future, the unity of the future European Union will be much more much dependent on debate on migration. This here we have as I mentioned quite visible dividing line between eastern and western countries between solidarity and burden sharing. The relocation schemes together with the revision of the asylum code will be at stake and here maybe in Ireland you do not feel it because you are not part of Schengen agreement but we can feel it severely. The problem with Slovenia is that countries are reintroducing border control on the internal Schengen borders and this is quite a serious question for the future of the European Union because it might prevent free flow of people and both obstacles also to free flow of services and also capital between the member countries and the burden of the debate on the future of the European Union as well but nevertheless probably we will have to revise the common asylum system of the European Union or to create a suitable migration policy of the European Union together with more focused view on our neighbourhood meaning especially in Mediterranean eastern part and southern part of the Mediterranean. Again the debate will be certainly very important about more efficient European Union groups but together with the groups also more and more on social pillar of the European Union because social pillar was kind of neglected in previous years at least we feel like this. The last one is the democratic transition or the democratic strengthening of the European Union. There is a common idea of president of the commission and French president to have so called democratic conventions in the European Union also in light to prepare let's say between the Breckins European parties with a real European programme for the next. European elections and here we have the idea of transnational lists which are supported by bigger countries but we have to have a very close look and very close debate or about this transnational list what they do mean because if the system of let's say democratic European Union will go to system one man one vote we at least Slovenians who lived in one multinational society already this means former Yugoslavia which was not democratic and this is different from the European Union but still the democratic system one man one vote in the multinational society can be a very very dangerous one. Of course all these priorities at the end of the day will lead to the question shall we change or should we change the treaties or not and as far as I understood everybody in European Union would like to escape the treaty changes there because to change the treaty many countries if not all need reference and these days with reference you never know where you can go. So the understanding is that probably the reference the treaty changes are not in the focus line but still French president as far as I understood he opened the floor also if needed for the treaty changes in the in the in the conversations with the rest of the membership of the European Union. Basic question of this is how to proceed not just in manner of 27 or differentiated integration but how we will achieve harmonisation in the European Union or convergence in the European Union without emphasis on the cohesion because convergence probably is not possible without the cohesion. And if we will have a diminishing site of the future European budget on the cohesion site then the question will be how the unity of the European Union will proceed. That's why I said that the debate of the future budget will influence also the debate on future of the European Union and that's why for Slovenia the emphasis is on cohesion if you would like to preserve the unity of the European Union of 27 is very very important. And do not forget on the one of the policies that was neglected in previous year unfortunately I would say and this is the for the enlargement policy which Slovenia is a strong advocate of. I think that European Union should continue and should go on much with much stronger engagement that it was till nowadays in the western Balkans which is the area still very very fragile from economic but also security points points of view at the end of the day. The question will be what we would like to achieve with this European Union also on a global level how strong political and economic player we would like to be the European Union on a global level. I think here particularly there are different views inside the European Union on the future free trade agreements whether should European Union be a leader in the free trade agreements or not in the world particularly after the let's say a retreat of the United States between the brackets from the global trade leadership. For all that kind of things for the future debate political elites will need public support. Without public support and public support here I mean the citizens of the European Union countries without the public support there won't be any changes in the European Union. That's why it's important and French president correctly correctly observed that we have to engage in a democratic way the public opinion across the European Union and in European Union member countries that that much more focused and sincere dialogue is needed with the citizens of European Union. We all know and I won't I will not repeat that probably this decision making process and I won't blame just brass it's also the national governments it's on European methods it's too distant from the from the our citizens. So that's why we already launched one and a half year ago public debate on several aspects of the European Union policies future policies and future of the European Union. We complete five round tables on five priority areas future priority areas of European Union. We are one of the rare countries that confirms all the positions that are taken on the level of the European Union before they are taken in the parliament in the discussion with the representatives of people. And we further plan now much more focused debate on the future of the European Union on different areas that I mentioned before with interested public experts universities but predominantly with with with young people. If I may conclude where the Slovenia stands regarding all that that elements that I presented mean we are in the beginning of the debate but still Slovenia would like to have European Union of 27 we would like to preserve and to continue in a United Union. We would like the European Union will be focused on security methods meaning internal and external security but on the other side also on economic security and the security that is Slovenia is very important. The social part of the of the security so social security is for Slovenia quite an important important element. Not just growth but also social issues. We would like to continue with with further integration of the European Union and basically after the Brexit the idea of French president Macron is to deepen the integration for beginning with the Franco German harmonies integration in that mentioned in the in the in the creation of a Franco German market which will be the basis for the for an example for the for the rest of the membership of European Union. In case we won't have that scenario that we will proceed along the ideas of the differentiated integration for multi-speed Europe then Slovenia thinks that we should this should be based on a principles that it remains rooted in the frame of the EU institution so EU institutional framework that it sets a clear path for further integration of the EU 27 that it does not lead to fragmentation of the European policies and the key and that this integrated structured cooperation or different differentiated integration remains open for all the member countries of the European Union. But at the end and I will conclude with this Slovenia switch in that if this scenario will go on that we will be part of the most advanced most integrated or the core part of the European Union.