Slovenia, the mandatory buffer for cross-border and students is triggered: here are the news

LUBIANA. Slovenia closes in a hedgehog, starting from February 5 the number of exceptions to enter the country without a swab and quarantine and imposes a swab or rapid test no earlier than 7 days from state entry to cross-border workers, students, teachers, researchers or those traveling across the border for health reasons. A cold shower for Friuli Venezia Giulia where those who go to work in Slovenia or send their children to school across the border represent a very high number of people. If they want to exercise their right again, they will have to get a swab or a quick antigen test (at their own expense, about 80 euros, less 25, for the antigen) every seven days. An outlay that can therefore vary monthly from a minimum of 100 euros to a maximum of 320 euros.

Immediate reaction of the president of the Italy-Slovenia Interregional Trade Union Council, Roberto Treu, according to whom he defines the rule passed by the Janša government “a worrying and unjust decision, in contrast with the guidelines of the European Union according to which cross-border workers cannot be discriminated against than resident workers. ”But there are also students. The situation of the Visnovich family is exemplary, living in old Muggia and sending their two children aged 7 and 13 to school in Slovenia in Crevatini. “We are astonished – says Mrs. Sabrina – and we still don’t know anything specific”. In fact, Mrs Sabrina, having not been in quarantine, again due to the new legislation issued by the Slovenian government, can accompany her 7-year-old son across the border without the need for a tampon, but not her daughter who has already turned 13. “At school – Ms. Visnovich specifies – the majority of students are Italian, in my son’s class there are three Slovenian boys and 6 Italians”. The reality of a border that nobody wants after the Iron Curtain has imploded between its ideological and strategic contradictions.

Like the hundreds of Italians who are domiciled in Slovenia but work in Italy, especially along the entire belt of the Slovenian Karst and who on Thursday evening were desperately looking for news by calling the hospital in Sesana or Nova Gorica to find out about the costs and methods of performing swab . There are those who phoned the Italian Consulate in Koper, but the news only became public knowledge in the evening and the consular offices were now closed.

The other decision taken by the government is that from now on, the regionalization of the epidemiological situation is no longer valid, every decision taken will be valid throughout the national territory (after all in Slovenia the regions are not administrative entities, but also geographical expressions) . Therefore, as announced by Prime Minister Janša, throughout Slovenia it has been decided that face-to-face lessons can be carried out from kindergartens up to the third grade. Possible lessons in the presence, but only if individual, in conservatories and dance schools. Furthermore, the reopening of libraries, museums and art galleries is allowed.

In recent days, there have been numerous controversies regarding the school in Slovenia with parents and some teachers clamoring to return to class. And there was also some controversy on Thursday, during the executive meeting, as some experts believed it possible that all elementary classes would be reopened, that is, up to the fifth, but the last word belongs to the politics that decided the way of prudence. “We found – said Janša – that the situation of the epidemic in Slovenia is still serious if we look at the map of Europe. In terms of infections on the basis of one million or 100 thousand inhabitants, we are still at the top of this sad ranking ».

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