Minister for Slovenians Abroad Helena Jaklitsch visited the Slovenian ethnic minority in the area of Udine (Videm) in Italy’s region Friuli-Venezia Giulia on Sunday, ahead of the Day of Remembrance of the Dead, or All Saints’ Day. On behalf of Slovenia, she laid wreaths at two memorials, and visited the grave of Slovenian patriot and …
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Prime Minister Janez Janša is attending the COP26 International Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland. The International Climate Conference — Conference of Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), COP26, is taking place from 31 October to 12 November. Slovenia’s and the EU’s global climate action is based on the …
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After witnessing constant negotiations on the Ukom-STA route since the new government took office, because the then director Bojan Veselinovič was unable to deliver the required documentation, which would be the basis for financing the agency, Veselinovič finally decided to leave the post of STA director. He was replaced by Igor Kadunc, former director general …
Below is the message delivered by Prime Minister Janez Janša on the occasion of today’s national holiday – Reformation Day. The poem Zdravljica by France Prešeren is about a nation that has fulfilled all its aspirations for freedom, unity, happiness and reconciliation. About a nation who spent centuries in chains to finally see the day “when o’er …
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The Social Democrats party (SD) has still not answered one very simple question: how much did they pay for the Moskovič villa, which once belonged to the Jewish merchant Felix Moskovič and was later acquired by the League of Communists through an exchange contract. The Constitutional Court had ruled that the property of the League …
As the former director of the Slovenian Press Agency (Slovenska tiskovna agencija – referred to as the STA), Bojan Veselinovič refused to simply hand over the documentation to the Government Communication Office, with which the financing would have been taken care of – for the good of the employees and their families – we witnessed …
A recent study by the European Statistical Office Eurostat showed that the state of child poverty and their social exclusion is very well regulated in Slovenia. Namely, Slovenia is far ahead of the rest of the European Union in protecting children from poverty, as it is at the tail end of countries in terms of …
The amendment to the Personal Income Tax Act, introduced by the government in the parliamentary procedure, will in the future help to reduce the tax burden on gross wages, which means that the differences between gross and net wages will be reduced. This also means that the burden on employers will be lower and they …
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Slovenia’s epidemiological status is poor as the country’s heads towards the worst situation since the start of the epidemic, said Health Minister Janez Poklukar, adding that if the trend is not reversed, he would propose at least a partial lockdown. This means that the number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care rises to 160-180, the …
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PM Janez Janša is meeting European Council President Charles Michel in Brussels over working dinner this evening to discuss key dossiers of the Slovenian presidency of the Council of the EU, as well as energy prices, migration, the Western Balkans and Eastern Partnership. The PM’s office said Janša and Michel will talk about the developments …
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Marion Maréchal answered questions from a new conservative American media Tyszka-Drozdowski : You said earlier that the biggest problem in French politics is the inability to build a “majority reality”, to create a consensus. Can you tell us more about this problem and what do you think can be done to solve it? Marion Maréchal:France suffers from a …
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Almost 1,500 new coronavirus cases were confirmed on Saturday in what is an increase of 138% week-on-week, while the positivity rate increased on a daily basis by more than three percentage points to 33.5%, the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) said. The seven-day average of new cases increased by 123 to 1,673 and the …
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