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The Culture Minister, Republic of Slovenia Julijana Bizjak Mlakar proposes to emphasize more on cultural heritage to boost cultural tourism as investing opportunities for her region. She understands culture as "an important (developmental) factor in the development of an innovative and knowledge-based society that contributes to the efficiency of education, economic growth and employment, the development of democracy, and the fight against poverty and social exclusion.“
Julijana Bizjak Mlakar is an experienced politician; she was a member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia in the 2008–2011 term. She has successfully worked especially in the fields of health care, education, culture and welfare and in other areas, where the public interest was endangered.
Prior to her election to the National Assembly, she was Deputy Mayor of the Municipality of Kamnik. As Minister of Culture, she will endeavour, together with her colleagues, to establish culture as an important (developmental) factor in the development of an innovative and knowledge-based society that contributes to the efficiency of education, economic growth and employment, the development of democracy, and the fight against poverty and social exclusion.
As Minister of Culture, she wants to strengthen people’s awareness that culture is a product of the most creative forces in society, without which a community cannot exist.
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