The Education Ministry announced that self testing for primary and secondary school children and youths will be mandatory starting from 15 November after initially announcing that it would continue to be voluntary. Self-testing will be performed on school premises three times a week under new rules that the government adopted on Friday. STA
Another 2,313 people tested positive for coronavirus in Slovenia on Saturday as over 42% of the PCR tests came back positive. Hospitalisations rose by nearly 50 from the day before to 797 with 184 being treated in intensive care. Eleven more Covid-19 patients died, bringing the total death toll to 5,149, data released by the …
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“The Constitutional Court’s decision U-I-155/20-24 regarding the constitutionality of paragraph four of article 39 of the Communicable Diseases Act and the relevant government decree reaches the level of being unreadable. Even a lenient editorial board of a lenient, semi-serious legal journal would return something so badly written to the author and refuse to publish it. …
The Madagascar-based missionary, Pedro Opeka, is undoubtedly a Slovenian for whom it can be said that he is the personification of goodness, especially in terms of selfless help to fellow human beings when they find themselves in distress. While the vast majority resort to pleasant but empty words, the effects of Opeka’s work are visible …
On Friday, the 5th of November, at 5 p.m., the government met with health experts at Brdo near Kranj to discuss the measures to limit the spread of covid-19. At the meeting, they assessed the current situation, talked about the forecasts for the coming days, and the measures which should be adopted as soon as …
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Foreign Minister Anže Logar held talks with counterpart Nikos Dendias. The ministers exchanged views on bilateral, regional, European and other topical global issues, focusing on the achievements of the Slovenian EU presidency. Integration of the Mediterranean countries, a coordinated response to the consequences of the pandemic and related economic recovery, the situation in the Western …
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The House of the Carniolan Honey Bee was launched in the town of Višnja Gora. Housed in a converted school, it will be dedicated to presenting the heritage of the Carniolan bee and innovative beekeeping solutions. The House of the Carniolan Honey Bee, which includes the Apilab centre of innovative beekeeping technologies, was a challenging …
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Prime Minister Janez Janša convened a working consultation session entitled “The Slovenian energy sector today, in 2033 and beyond”. The main reason the consultation was convened was because of the many challenges the energy sector in Slovenia and Europe is facing at present. The energy sector is the backbone of our modern way of life …
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Rok Svetlič spoke for the Siol portal about the events that took place in recent weeks with his candidacy for constitutional judge. Namely, Svetlič is an associate professor in the field of philosophy of law and a scientific advisor, who completed his doctoral dissertation “Law and Justice – Rehabilitation of Natural Law with Ronald Dworkin” under the …
Dimitrij Rupel, a long-time Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote a letter to the president of the German liberals, Christian Wolfgang Lindner, regarding Alenka Bratušek’s efforts to get the SMC party excluded from the European liberals’ ALDE group. Rupel called on Lindner to encourage an independent investigation into Bratušek’s proposal, as what she is demanding is …
“As the proposer of the declaration, I am excited about this historic moment for Slovenia: the Committee on Justice adopted a Declaration of Support for the European Parliament’s Resolution on European Conscience and Totalitarianisms, which condemns all totalitarianisms and recognises all victims of totalitarianisms,” said SDS MP Branko Grims. The SDS party has repeatedly proposed …
In a book entitled “The Nation Judges” (Narod sodi in Slovenian) by Mateja Čoh Kladnik, we find examples of forced expropriation of the rich after the end of World War II. The Communist Party justified its vile behaviour with claims of the rich “collaborating” with the occupiers during the war. Thus, the revolutionaries amassed a …
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