Slovenia faces similar problems to other central European countries which have intro duced radical reforms of their economic and political systems. In addition, it has become an independent state. This demands efforts to establish new social, political and economic functions and causes problems such as the loss of markets in the former Yugoslavia and big resources needed to support refugees from the crisis areas. However, its export-oriented and relatively well developed economy seem to enable a soft approach to the reform of social policy. This means that there have not been drastic cuts in the welfare programmes or that the reduction of public services provision has been substituted by non-governmental, volun tary, commercial and other means.
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