The American non-governmental organisation Freedom House has reissued a report on the level of freedom in the countries of the world. While it points out that for the 15th year in a row, there has been a decline in the level of freedom around the world, the data are extremely favourable for Slovenia. Namely, Slovenia …
Slovenia has one of the highest shares of women in the military in NATO, at 16.7%, the Defence Ministry said. The share of women in the Armed Forces has been one of the highest among NATO members in the past decade. In terms of missions abroad, the representation of women has varied between 7% and …
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Invitations to a protest rally in front of parliament, which is scheduled to take place today, March 8th, on International Women’s Day, have been circulating for some time on Twitter. The infamous trade unionist and political activist Tea Jarc invites women to revolt against the government. It is not known whether the poster campaign in …
After cases of the UK, South Africa and Nigeria variants of coronavirus have been confirmed in Slovenia, a variant first detected in Brazil has now been confirmed as well. “The variant has been detected in the Maribor area, for the time being in three persons within a family with a negative epidemiological anamnesis,” Mateja Logar, …
“More than 980,000 people have already been vaccinated in Hungary, and another 400 thousand will receive the coronavirus jab by Wednesday, making the country the leader in Europe,” the Hungarian prime minister’s office chief has said. Gergely Gulyas called the Chinese Sinopharm jab – one of the vaccines used in the country – perhaps the …
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The latest public opinion poll commissioned by commercial broadcaster Nova24TV shows the senior coalition Democrats (SDS) have 19% support, followed by the opposition Social Democrats (SD) with 12.1%. At the end of January, the SDS polled at 23.5% and the SD at 8.1%. The opposition Marjan šarec List (LMŠ) also saw its support rise to …
The Health Ministry, Government Communication Office and the National Institute of Public Health (NIJZ) are preparing a campaign promoting vaccination against Covid-19 for specific target groups. A website on the vaccination is being set up and a campaign on social networks will be held under the hashtag “CepimoSe (lets get vaccinated). The government, which presented …
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Out of the 2,785 PCR tests performed in Slovenia on Saturday, 382 or 13.7% came back positive. The number of hospitalisation rose above 500 again to 510, with 89 patients in intensive care. 17 people left the hospital and three people died, government data show. On Friday, the number of patients hospitalised with Covid-19 dropped …
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“It is really great that today’s meeting of Sophie in’t Veld’s group was publicly broadcast. That was not how it was intended at first. But since it was publicly broadcast, it was not possible to hide the complete ignorance of the European bureaucrats about what was happening in Slovenia. They really have no idea,” said …
Odbor 2015 (Committee 2015) issued a press release, in which it polemised and criticised the response of the Slovenian Association of State Prosecutors. In the message, members of Odbor 2015 pointed out that they are surprised by the response of the association, which informed the Council of Europe about numerous “inadmissible” pressures on state prosecutors …
We recently found out that the European Parliament has prepared an in-depth analysis of the state of the democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights in Slovenia. This is especially important in light of the exportation of fake news to foreign media, which are then brought back to Slovenia, and for finding ways for …
We have a chance to surpass our economic growth measured before the pandemic. Not only will Poland avoid recession, but it can also expect a strong economic recovery, Poland’s prime minister wrote on social media. By the fourth quarter, we can surpass our pre-pandemic economic growth and expect a strong economic upswing, Mateusz Morawiecki wrote, …
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