The European character of eliminating holidays and the Socialist indolent mentality

U tekstu se analiziraju sluzbeni i nesluzbeni diskursi (medijsko izvjestavanje, internetski komentari i forumi) u Sloveniji i Hrvatskoj koji ukidanje praznika tematiziraju kao gospodarsku mjeru (stednje). Prate se odnosi izmedu ukidanja praznika, marljivosti i mentaliteta na jednoj strani te balkanskog, socijalistickog i europskog identiteta na drugoj. Prikupljena grada sugerira da su obje vlade prijedlozima o ukidanju praznika potakle vecinom dvije vrste komentara: o povezanosti praznika s marljivoscu i o tome koje bi praznike i uz njih vezane identitete eventualno valjalo ukinuti. Vecina nesluzbenih diskursa praznike uglavnom nije povezivala s produktivnoscu, niti se fokusirala na sustavno uredenje placanja rada za vrijeme praznika (i/ili neradnih dana) i radnicka prava. Znatno vise komentara posveceno je pojmu socijalistickog mentaliteta, navodno povezanog s pojedinacnim praznicima, pri cemu se produktivnost, u manjoj mjeri nego priblizavanje Europi, pokazala ciljem predlozenih (i/ili realiziranih) sustavnih promjena.//The article analyses official and unofficial discourses (media reports, web commentaries and forums) in Slovenia and Croatia which deal with eliminating holidays as a part of austerity measures. It focuses on the relationship between eliminating holidays, diligence and mentality on the one hand and Balkan, socialist and European identity on the other. The analysed material suggests that both governments' proposals to eliminate holidays largely triggered two kinds of commentaries: how holidays are related to diligence and which holidays and identities related to them - if any at all - should be eliminated. If most unofficial discourses have not connected holidays with diligence and productivity, they have also not focused on systemic solutions regarding payment of work for holidays (and/or days free of work) nor have they concentrated on workers' rights. However the majority of commentaries touched upon the question of the socialist mentality and identity, which were seen as related to specific holidays. In the end, it was not productivity but rather drawing closer to Europe that appeared as a goal of the suggested (and/or realised) systemic changes. [web URL: http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_ jezik=2 20057]