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On Independence Day . . . Most Slovenians say Yugo Break was Change for the Better LJUBLJANA, June 24 (Reuters) - Most Slovenians believe their independence break from former Yugoslavia was a change for the better, but many remain worried about their living standards, opinion polls say. Slovenia, the most prosperous of the ex-Yugoslav republics, celebrates the fifth anniversary of its independence on Tuesday, June 25. A poll conducted last week by the daily Dnevnik indicated 39 percent of Slovenians believed they were worse off now in economic terms than they were before Slovenia independence after a brief conflict in 1991. Of those questioned, 31 percent said independence had not affected them, while just 21 percent said their situation had improved. "Probably most of those who think their lives are worse now took into account the criterion of material needs," Vlado Miheljak, an analyst at Ljubljana University's Faculty of Social Sciences, told the paper. On overall effects of independence, a majority of Slovenians believed it was a change for the better, another opinion poll conducted by the daily Delo said. While 60 percent backed independence, 24 percent disagreed, the poll showed. Slovenia is the wealthiest among Europe's former communist countries, with official statistics estimating gross domestic product per capita at $9,352 in 1995.

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