The Mayors of the three Slovenian-Styrian municipalities visited the Carinthian Country Governor Gerhard Dorfler in Klagenfurt -upon the initiative of the Alps-Adriatic Centre for Cross-border Co-operation (AACC) . The Governor Dorfler presented the Mayors of Maribor, Celje and Murska Sobota especially the initiatives on the fields of alternative sources of the energy and e-mobility. Governor Dorfler informed the Mayors also about the solution of bilingual signs in Carinthia, the project of the World skiing Championship of the three countries, about the traffic connections between Carinthia and Slovenia, and about other matters, interesting for both sides. The Mayors Franc Kangler (Maribor), Bojan Šrot (Celje) and Anton Štihec (Murska Sobota) presented their standpoints of the political situation in Slovenia before the coming elections, mainly they criticised the centralism, which is evolving. The Mayor Kangler described the activities of his town in the context of »The European Capital of Culture 2012«. The Christmas tree for Maribor will this year come from Himmelberg, the home municipality of Gerhard Dorfler.
Photo: from the left:Bojan Šrot (Celje), Gerhard Dorfler (Country Governor), Anton Štihec (Murska Sobota, Franc Kangler (Maribor) and Bernard Sadovnik ( the President of the AACC) in front of the inn Felsenkeller , Klagenfurt.
