The narcissistic outburst of the Speaker of the National Assembly at Friday’s celebration of Independence and Unity Day, which is apparently becoming a tradition for her, almost made us forget about the most important speech of the evening. The nation was addressed by Prime Minister Robert Golob, and his unusual remarks about the successful performance …
While Robert Golob’s government is engaged in reorganisation, which also includes the establishment of a strategic council for nutrition under the Prime Minister, it is forgetting to take care of people’s public health. Infections with covid-19 continue to rage, and judging by government communication, it seems as if covid-19 has disappeared. But infections are increasing …
Slovenia: The coronavirus continues to rage, while the government threatens doctors Read More »
Today, the District Court in Kranj heard a claim for damages in which the President of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) and former Prime Minister Janez Janša is seeking 900,000 euros in damages from the former prosecutors and judges who tried the Patria case. The Court will first decide on the …
On the 23rd of December 1990, the Slovenian people decided on the possible separation from the former common state of Yugoslavia and the forming of our own independent Slovenia. At the plebiscite, when asked, “Should the Republic of Slovenia become an independent and sovereign state?” 95 percent of the electorate, or 88.5 percent of all …
Borut Pahor has bid us farewell as President of the Republic. The first, and perhaps at least for one generation, the last President of the Republic who really tried to be the President of all Slovenians. As he stressed in his latest address at the beginning of the annual report of the President of the …
When the comrades not only talk, but embark on reforms, then it is necessary to hold on to the wallets. And when you know that there is no voice of common sense in the coalition, but a socialist consensus, and any differences in the general consensus are only cosmetic, the Levica party will have a …
“Despite the very high total amount of planned aid to the economy, the representatives of the economy and employers clearly warn that the Proposal for the Law on Aid to the Economy to Mitigate the Effects of the Energy Crisis does not solve the basic problem of high offers for electricity leases for 2023, as …
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Gorazd Pučnik, son of one of the fathers of the Slovenian state, Jože Pučnik, recently received the Order of Extraordinary Merit, the highest state decoration, on his father’s behalf. The decoration had already been awarded in 2006 by the then-President of the Republic, Janez Drnovšek, who awarded it to Pučnik posthumously when Slovenia celebrated 15 …
The web portal Oštro is considered to be one of the most trusted informants and distorters of facts by the US billionaire megacorporations that own the social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, and until recently, Twitter). This web portal often twists the facts to get the ideological message it wants to convey (a practice invented on …
Local Slovenian police stations have always been a kind of a time machine, where time seemed to stop in 1975. Pictures of the dictator Tito hang on the walls, and some older police officers in senior positions reminisce nostalgically about the days when they were part of the communist version of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. …
The Bank of Slovenia has lowered its forecast for Slovenia’s economic growth. While in June, it had forecast growth of 5.8 percent this year and 2.4 percent next year, this year’s growth will actually reach 5 percent, falling to 0.8 percent next year. Inflation will remain high and is expected to start moderating in the …
With the resignation of Interior Minister Tatjana Bobnar, the more left-wing media also noticed that the criminal investigators were looking into the privatisation of the Gen-I energy company and Robert Golob’s business operations in the Balkans. And they have been doing this for quite a long time. But now, thanks to the resignation of the …
