“With the judgement of the District Judge Vlasta Lajlar in the criminal case against the accused Luka Štitić for the criminal offence of threatening, under the first paragraph of Article 135 of the Criminal Code (Kazenski zakonik – KZ-1), following the indictment by the District Court in Celje (…) on the 18th of January (…), …
At Friday’s press conference, Minister of Health Janez Poklukar said that Slovenia has confirmed the first case of the South African coronavirus variant, detected in the Maribor area in a person who has returned from Africa. The Epidemiological Service traced all high-risk contacts and sent them into quarantine. The Minister also said that, as a …
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Illegal immigrants arriving from along the Balkan route were being assisted by a self-purported volunteer aide association which is now under investigation as part of a large-scale crack-down in Italy. The Trieste prosecutor’s office has initiated proceedings against the alleged volunteer association for aiding and abetting illegal immigration. The Trieste-based Linea d’Ombra Association was founded …
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On Friday, two positive and one negative event happened. In the morning, we found out that the Prime Minister had sent a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula van der Leyen, in which he presented the actual state of the media landscape in Slovenia. Janša called on the European Commission to send …
The opposition parties SD, LMŠ and Levica clearly felt the need to immediately respond to the letter that the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Janez Janša, sent to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. He invited her to check the state of democracy and media freedom in Slovenia with …
Last year, due to the coronavirus epidemic, the economic climate fell sharply. The general climate started to recover slowly when some of the activities reopened but slightly fell again in autumn due to the renewed restrictive measures. However, regardless of the restrictive measures that have been in place for the past couple of months, the …
On Monday, at Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anže Logar will hold a meeting with Austrian MFA Alexander Schallenberg, Czech MFA Tomaš Petriček, Hungarian MFA Péter Szijjárto and Slovak MFA Ivan Korcok. All members of the #C5 foreign ministers group.
The day after the failed vote of no confidence, an article by the journalist of the Politico media outlet, Lili Bayer, was published. Since she described the journalistic landscape in a country that is a member state of the European Union as oppressed and stated that Prime Minister Janez Janša is the person who is …
A foreign patron will soon take care of strengthening the left-wing media unanimity in our country. This man is the Serbian telecommunications and media mogul Dragan Šolak, the owner of the N1 television network, established in the Balkans, who is planning to launch an ambitious project of the N1 Slovenia news site in the spring, …
EU ministers responsible for research discussed today the links between recovery and resilience plans (RRF) and the European Research Area at an informal videoconference. At the meeting, the Minister of Education, Science and Sport, Dr Simona Kustec, emphasised that the RRF plans are an excellent opportunity for promoting key structural change and investment in the …
A press conference on the current situation regarding the Covid-19 virus was held by Minister of the Interior Aleš Hojs, Director of the National Institute of Public Health Milan Krek, Head of the Consulate Sector at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Andrej Šter and Slovene living in Argentina Mariana Poznič. Official spokesperson Maja Bratuša presented the most …
The Prime Minister of Slovenia Janez Janša wrote to the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen regarding the accusations of the Vice President of the European Commission Vera Jourova that there is no freedom of the media in Slovenia. The letter of the Prime Minister of Slovenia is published in full: Dear …
