At today’s extraordinary session, the Council of State voted with 16 votes for and 15 against a suspensive veto on the amendment to the Act on RTVS, with which the government, in its opinion, wants to withdraw politics from the institute. Supporters of the veto are mainly bothered by the speed of change of management …
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Investigative journalist Bojan Požar reports that he has received information about how Marta Kos, Gibanje Svoboda’s candidate for President of the Republic, received money from the UEFA football association, based on a consultancy contract, and at least part of this money was supposed to go to finance the so-called civil society, which fought agitprop against …
“We bought the same aircraft for the Slovenian Army during our mandate. Delivery is promised for this year,” Janez Janša wrote alongside a video of two Romanian Spartan planes during the extinguishing of the Karst. The behaviour of the previous government confirms its foresight. Buying an airplane is not the only move of this kind. The …
MP Dr Anže Logar addressed to the Government of the Republic of Slovenia an initiative to take immediate action to restore the Karst on both sides of the border in the form of interstate cooperation between Slovenia and Italy. The approach to obtaining funds from the EU should be approached together, and the restoration should …
The war, rising energy and food prices are warning Golob’s that this is not the time for holiday relaxation. This is not the time to stifle the economy with additional taxes and socialist experiments. There is even less time for salary increases. It will be necessary to save. Let us remind you that the government …
The work of the current government two months after the election is supported by 51.4 percent of respondents, which is almost two percentage points less than a month ago, according to a July poll conducted by Mediana for POP TV. If the elections were held today, the Gibanje Svoboda party would have collected 27.8 percent …
In May, Sweden and Finland officially applied to join NATO. The accession of new members to The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation must be confirmed by all 30 existing ones, and up to now, the accession has only been opposed by Turkey, with which Sweden and Finland have finally managed to come to an agreement. Slovenian …
“Today, as a member of the State Election Commission, I submitted a proposal for the dismissal of the Director of the commission, Dušan Vučko. Too many matters remain unexplained,” Drago Zadergal, a member of the State Election Commission, wrote on Twitter. As he explained, he submitted the proposal for a dismissal due to “negligent, improper …
The 29th of June marks the birthday of an outstanding Slovenian and Nobel Prize nominee, Pedro Opeka, also known as Father Opeka, a Catholic priest from Argentina who works as a missionary in Madagascar. He was awarded the Legion of Honour for serving the poor. Pedro Opeka, who was born in 1948 in Buenos Aires …
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Thursday’s session of the European Central Bank and the announcement of the first interest rate raising after 11 years has also pushed up the yield on the Slovenian 10-year bond – to 2.92%, a new high after the 2013 and 2014 banking system bailout. The secondary market yield on the Slovenian 10-year bond was hovering …
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Close to 6,000 couples got married in Slovenia last year. August was the most popular month for a wedding, data from the Statistics Office shows. Compared to the year before, the number of couples who got married increased by 13% to 5,916 whereas the number of those who got a divorce rose by nearly a …
A total of 209 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Slovenia over the weekend, a 30% increase over the weekend before. No patient with Covid-19 has died since Friday, according to the Health Ministry. The ministry does not release fatality or hospital figures at the weekend, but data released today shows 21 patients were hospitalised …
