As a national coordinator for combating human trafficking, Čurin warns that apart from focusing on the responsibility of criminal gangs, we should also focus on the responsibility of each individual encouraging crime by demanding such services.

Penalize the customers!
Mr. Čurin added that a European directive enables the punishment of users of sexual services, in cases where the service providers are victims of human trafficking. The Directive is already being implemented in Sweden. Other EU countries have to notify the European Commission by 2016 of the measures they have adopted in that field.

Researcher Mojca Pajnik from the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Peace Institute warns that the Swedish example has led to "the even bigger precarisation of precarious work”. Together with Goran Lukić from the Association of Free Trade Unions, they both warned that precarious workers, who are taken advantage of because their social vulnerability, should also be included under the definition of the term »human trafficking«. Lukić said that human trafficking has become a "business model" in Slovenia. In 2013, 86.052 Slovenians were sent to work abroad, mostly in Germany. This year there have been 48.193 workers posted abroad so far. Meanwhile there is still no supervision over the issuing of the A1 forms, which are a pre-condition to be posted abroad.