In a recent episode of the show “Ura moči” (The Hour of Power), which is hosted by Bojan Požar on Planet TV, his two guests were Boštjan Turk and Edvard Kadič. In their analysis, the commentators also touched on the Institute of the 8th of March’s controversial election campaign on the social network TikTok. The …
“Silence of the mainstream media regarding the Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković and the pharmacist case says a lot about the situation in the Slovenian media space. This is not journalism, but rather doing political favours for corrupt politicians,” The Association of Journalists and Publicists (Združenje novinarjev in publicistov – ZNP) recently wrote. Namely, last week, …
“As a person, a journalist, and a citizen, I am disappointed with the work of this process. The information I have indicates that one well-known family of lawyers is involved in my planned detention. It seems that some politicians from the emerging Gibanje Svoboda party are involved,” Bojan Požar, a journalist and editor of Požareport, told …
The web portal Siol published an exclusive story about the controversial sale of an apartment in Ljubljana, in which two men who work closely with the latest new face of the left-wing political pole, Robert Golob, were involved – namely, the former Chairman of the Management Board of the energy company Elektro Ljubljana, Andrej Ribič, …
Boštjan Lesjak has safely arrived in Kyiv to start serving as Slovenia’s chargé d’affaires ad interim to Ukraine. Upon arrival, he said that the city was empty with audible alarms and detonations in the distance, but that day-to-day life was running normally for those who remained in the capital. As of 9:00 a.m. monday, the …
Prime Minister Janez Janša met with the President of the Grand National Assembly of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Sentop, in Ljubljana yesterday. They exchanged views on bilateral relations between the two countries and discussed current foreign policy topics with a focus on the situation in Ukraine and the Western Balkans. UKOM
Prime Minister Janez Janša met yesterday with Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament, who is attending the conference of parliamentary speakers of the EU Member States in Slovenia. The two interlocutors focused on the situation in Ukraine and the main topics on the agenda of EU leaders. They agreed that the EU should remain …
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EU home affairs ministers met at the Extraordinary Justice and Home Affairs Council today in Brussels to continue the discussion on the consequences of the situation in Ukraine. They focused on the reception and registration procedures for persons fleeing Ukraine, on the implementation of material and financial support for member states, and security issues. The …
Prime Minister Janez Janša yesterday attended the extraordinary summit of NATO Heads of State and Government in Brussels to discuss the Russian aggression in Ukraine and current developments in NATO related to the situation in that country. As part of the short-term response, efforts are continuing within NATO to establish four new battlegroups in southeastern …
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Prime Minister Janez Janša yesterday in a video speech addressed the participants of the National Conservatism Conference: The Future of the Nation-state in Europe, which was organised by the Edmund Burke Foundation in Brussels on 23 and 24 March 2022. Speaking in the panel “Facing the Russian aggression”, Prime Minister Janša talked about the war …
“Muki’s messengers of the people (57 non-governmental organisations) have received 71,921,694.01 euros of taxpayers’ money since 2003,” they wrote on the Prava.si portal. Journalist Luka Perš, under the auspices of Filip Dobranić, listed non-governmental organisations that are diligently milking taxpayers’ money – among them the “non-wasteful” March 8, which is quite unusual at first glance. But …
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Slovenia’s GDP, expressed in purchasing power standards, amounted to 90% of the EU average in 2021, a percentage point higher than the year before, Eurostat data shows. GDP ranged from 277% of the EU average in Luxembourg and 221% in Ireland, to 55% in the bloc’s poorest country, Bulgaria. STA
