Prime Minister Janez Janša met Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, Eduard Heger, prior to the special meeting of the European Council. During their talks, the discussion partners spoke about the management of the COVID-19 situation and the priorities of the Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council. Following his meeting with his Slovakian counterpart, the …
Slovenia’s rolling average of daily coronavirus cases has dropped to 309, just above the threshold to move to the green tier, as Covid-19 hospitalisations have already fallen under 300, fresh government data show. Out of 3,558 PCR tests performed yesterday, 326 new cases were confirmed for a positivity rate of 9.2%. A total of 44,113 …
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Prime Minister Janez Janša hailed the European Council’s decision to step up sanctions against Belarus, saying the debate had shown the EU standing firmly behind its values. “Us placing human rights and political freedoms of an individual, human, in the centre is the right answer to what has happened,” Janša said in a reference to …
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Senior Slovenian officials condemned actions by Belarus after a Ryanair flight was forced to land in Minsk. PM Janez Janša wrote on Twitter that he supported a proposal by Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki for an expansion of the agenda of today’s summit of EU leaders. “Sanctions have to include everything the #Lukashenko #regime is using …
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Constitutional Court Judge Rok Čeferin told the Financial Times that the criticism of judges should not be acceptable in a democracy, adding that the current government does not respect that. “In democracies, there should be limits to acceptable criticism of judges, but our government does not respect those limits,” he was cited by the foreign …
“They refuse to hand over the documentation in order to maintain the conflict and portray themselves as the poor victims of a fascist regime abroad. Veselinovič does not care about the journalists or the public. They are cannon fodder,” was a sort of working hypothesis of last night’s show Ura moči (The Hour of Power). …
The web portal 24ur published a draft of the programme starting points of the largest parliamentary party, the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), ahead of its upcoming June congress. In the title of the article, they are manipulatively implying that the largest government party wants to start a civil war in Slovenia. …
Minister Andrej Šircelj attended the informal meeting of economic and financial affairs ministers in Lisbon on 21 and 22 May. The recovery following the COVID 19 pandemic remains a key priority of the EU Member States. It is important for the European Union that an inclusive and balanced recovery process ensures resilience and stimulates green …
Slovenia reported 159 new coronavirus cases in 2,117 PCR tests on Saturday, down significantly from the week before, with positivity rate at 7.5%. Four Covid-19 patients died, fresh government data show. Hospitalisations dropped to 306 on Sunday morning and and the number of patients in intensive care was down to 98. The 7-day average of …
The foreign ministers of Slovenia, Austria and the Czech Republic, Anže Logar, Alexander Schallenberg and Jakub Kulhanek, stressed the role of EU enlargement to the Western Balkans for the entire EU as they met senior Albanian officials in Tirana a day after visiting neighbouring North Macedonia. FM Olta Xhacka, PM Edi Rama and President Ilir …
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The District Court in Ljubljana annulled the enforcement orders for the recovery of EUR 169,000.00 for January 2021 and EUR 169,000.00 for February 2021, issued by the District Court in Ljubljana against the Government Communication Office (UKOM) on the basis of the motion for enforcement filed by Slovenska tiskovna agencija, d.o.o., represented by Bojan Veselinović …
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The Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Janez Janša, was the guest on a TV Slovenija 3 talk show hosted by Igor Pirkovič. He spoke about vaccination, those who have recovered from COVID-19, curbing the epidemic, vaccination coverage, the current political situation, the balance of political powers, the upcoming presidency of the Council of …
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