Former President Pahor enters academia

Former President Borut Pahor is entering academia. He has been appointed head of a new chair at a Nova Gorica-based private university that will focus on the Slovenian national programme.

New University, which was established in 2017, formed the new chair in June as an internal organisational unit that it says will not run any study programme itself. Rather, it will be primarily dedicated to discussion and research.

Pahor will convene the inaugural meeting of the chair in September, the university told the Slovenian Press Agency.

Apart from Pahor, the founding members...