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The primary objective of the DIOSCURI project was to explore the dynamics of cultural exchange between “East” and “West” in the European economy, including identifying the main types of cultural encounters between the two halves of Europe during and after the Enlargement, mapping the major cultural gaps and strategies to bridge them, and describing the fields in which the new entrants can contribute to the rejuvenation of economic cultures in the European Union. DIOSCURI focused on three research fields: entrepreneurship (Field 1), governance (Field 2) and economic knowledge (Field 3). The Consortium expected to find a great variety of lasting cultural hybrids in economic and social behaviour, instead of a simplistic scheme, in which the "strong Western" culture devours the "weak Eastern" one. Main research question was To what extend are the new hybrid cultural patterns, emerging in the Eastern Europe compatible or incompatible with the prevailing Western patterns? The survey was carried out in nine European countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Serbia/Montenegro and Slovenia. The present collection includes only the materials collected in Slovenia, for materials of other countries see http://www.dioscuriproject.net/. In Slovenia two research methods were used - personal interview (RM1) and content analysis which is divided to EU (RM2_F1) and multinationals (RM2_F2). Content analysis "EU" (RM2_F1): The topic was presentation of Slovene accession negotiations with EU and its denouement from 1998 to 2004. Data include extent of coverage of this topic, Slovene and European accession negotiations actors, their attitude and relations between them, content fields, presented problems, fears, optimism and also political use of negotiations of Slovene political parties. Results show diversity of Slovene actors and European Commission as the only relevant actor of the European side, gradually tension decrease in negotiations and relative...