Compensations ruled by European Court of Human Rights range from €37.000 to €70.000 and are higher than the amounts provided by the Slovenian Law on Compensation for 25.000 “erased non-Slovenians”.
Strasbourg, March 12 2014 – European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Slovenia to make payouts in a total of €240.000 within three months, to six plaintiffs of the “Kurić and other erased against Slovenia” case, in compensation for the damage done by erasing them from the list of permanent residents in 1992.
This issue concerns more that 25.000 Slovenia citizens, who were erased from the population list when the country became independent, which resulted in losing domicile of origin in Slovenia, as well as all the other social and labour rights, HRT reported.
Individual compensations range from €37.000 to €70.000 and are higher than the amounts provided by the Slovenian Law on Compensation for 25.000 “Erased non-Slovenians”.
Slovenian Minister of the Interior Gregor Virant said that he is pleased with the verdict, because it implicitly acknowledges that Slovenia is on the right track to solve the problem of the “erased”.
By the already adopted law, Slovenia committed to compensate the “erased” in a lump sum of €50 per each month in which the “erased” had no legal status.
