Literary historian Janko Kos has left the Slovenian Writers’ Association (DSP) over its decision to opt out of the celebration of Slovenia’s 30th independence anniversary because of certain actions by Prime Minister Janez Janša. DSP head Dušan Merc said the only comment to the move could be that “we must accept the fact that academic
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Slovenia will step up health checks on its borders starting on Monday. It plans to reintroduce checkpoints on internal borders, which were scrapped in mid-February, and tighten quarantine rules for arrivals, Interior Minister Aleš Hojs told the press. “The government is particularly concerned about [coronavirus] variants from South Africa and from countries in which some
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Guy Verhofstadt, a Belgian MEP from the ranks of the political group Renew Europe of the European Parliament, has also turned out to be one of the people who have suddenly become very worried about the state of the media in Slovenia. After the infamous Politico article was published, accusing the Prime Minister Janez Janša
Sophie In ‘t Veld (Renew / D66), who heads the Group for Monitoring Respect for Democracy, the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights within the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, has sent an invitation letter to the Prime Minister Janez Janša and Minister of Culture Vasko Simoniti for in camera
In recent days we have revealed the connections between the UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin and the Serbian mafia, in particular through his long-time acquaintance Slaviša Kokeza, who is otherwise also a prominent member of the UEFA, as well as president of the Serbian Football Association. The latest astonishing revelations, however, suggest that Kokeza looks up
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Three of Slovenia’s four MEPs from the European People’s Party (EPP) did not back changes to the rules of procedure allowing the European People’s Party (EPP) to suspend or exclude a member party from its ranks. Ljudmila Novak, the fourth Slovenian EPP MEP, voted for the changes, having been one of its proponents. The overhauled
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“Fidesz has left the European People’s Party Group in the European Parliament. It has refused to accept that the rights of Members of the European Parliament – and thus the rights of Hungarian voters – be restricted by an amendment of the Group’s statutes,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, the president of the ruling Fidesz party,
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Slovenia is planning to start mass vaccination of teachers against Covid-19 next week, Jelko Kacin, the coordinator for the logistics of mass vaccination, announced as he visited a vaccination point in Ljubljana. If everything goes according to plan, Slovenia could administer about 240,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in March, which is about half the capacity,
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All secondary school students who have been learning remotely will return to in-person teaching on Monday, the government decided as it conducted its weekly review of coronavirus restrictions. The change comes after schools reopened in mid-February, but only final-year secondary students returned to classrooms to prepare for school-leaving exams. Starting next week, primary school students
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MEPs of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party are leaving the European People’s Party (EPP) after the EPP adopted an amendment to its basic rules of precudure at today’s meeting. In a letter to EPP group leader Manfred Weber, Viktor Orban wrote it was “disappointing” to see that while hundreds of thousands of Europeans are hospitalised, the
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The news of the connection between the UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin and the president of the Football Association of Serbia, Slaviša Kokeza, has caused quite a stir in the Serbian media. In Serbia, where the local police work hard to expose the crimes of the mafia and arrest its members, a news item found its
According to Požareport, the Constitutional Court Judge Rok Čeferin, in his role of a rapporteur, proposed to the members of the Senate Špelca Mežnar and Matej Accetto, to dismiss the appeal of Peter Kodrič, who appealed to the Constitutional Court because the Supervisory Board of the Bar Association of Slovenia rejected his application to become