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 …
Nika Kovač thrown into the election campaign for billions of left-wing NGOs Read More »
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
“This period of time, when Karl Erjavec was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was a period in our external policy that we cannot really be proud of. At that time, Slovenia was moving away from the general direction of our foreign policy, outlined in the parliamentary resolution, which is in many ways also defined by …
Previous governments had allocated less than five million euros per year to the development of homes for the elderly. Due to their (non)actions in this area, we have not gotten any new homes for the elderly since 2005. However, under the current government, the field of care for the elderly is a priority for the …
Ahead of the official start of the election campaign, Prime Minister Janez Janša, and fellow coalition leaders Matej Tonin and Zdravko Počivalšek, presented what Janša called the “biggest investment drive” in Slovenia’s history. They said almost EUR 8 billion worth of investment projects had been implemented, were ongoing or were approved along with funds in …
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Prime Minister Janez Janša announced the Slovenian diplomatic mission in Kyiv will operate at the level of chargé d’affaires with full powers for the duration of the emergency situation. He did not reveal who the chargé d’affaires will be, but said that several volunteers had come forward. Citing unofficial sources, media reported the interim chargé …
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Yesterday in Brdo pri Kranju, Prime Minister Janez Janša attended a solemn event of the Chamber of Craft and Entrepreneurship of Slovenia, at which he was the keynote speaker. At the ceremony, the awards Craftsman of the Year and Entrepreneur of the Year for 2020 and 2021 and the Oldest Craftsman in 2020 were presented. …
Prime Minister Janez Janša gave an interview today for the BBC World Service. Most of the interview was devoted to the visit of the Prime Ministers of Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Poland to Kyiv. The Slovenian Prime Minister began by saying that he and the Polish and Czech Prime Ministers had travelled through the …
On Tuesday evening, Prime Minister Janez Janša together with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and Czech Prime Minister Peter Fialo met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal in Kyiv. In a statement following the meeting, Prime Minister Janez Janša said that he decided to visit because he was aware of how Ukrainians …
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