At a recent meeting of the European People’s Party (EPP), Slovenian MEP Romana Tomc launched an initiative for a discussion of the unacceptable employee purges at the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS). The President of EPP, Manfred Weber, has already condemned the said purges and also called on the European Commissioner Věra Jourová to …
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The Energy Policy Bill continues with a “climate just” policy despite all of the engineering as well as geopolitical concerns. If the law, which was in public debate until the 17th of September, is also approved by the National Assembly, a new order of energy sources for energy concepts will be imposed on municipalities. Solar …
In August, Prime Minister Robert Golob (Freedom Movement – Gibanje Svoboda) spent €39,300 on flights on private jets rented by the state from the company Janez let. Another €34,500 was paid to the company Flycom. An additional €22,200 was paid by the Foreign Ministry led by Tanja Fajon (Social Democrats – SD) to Janez let …
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According to the first annual estimate of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia’s gross domestic product grew by 2.5% in real terms last year, while the previous estimate, based on the aggregation of quarterly data, was 5.4%. Last year’s growth was thus significantly lower than the initial estimate and also much slower …
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In the past week, we have followed the political purge of journalists, which four Constitutional Court judges – Matej Accetto, Rajko Knez, Katja Šugman Stubbs and Špelca Mežnar – allowed to happen by overriding the decision that five Constitutional Court judges came to beforehand. In order to force the resignation of the now-former Editor-In-Chief of …
The “depoliticised” management of the national media outlet Radio Television Slovenia (RTVS) is “purging” the public institution of undesirable persons. The victims of a kind of media “night of broken glass” are journalists who are obviously too far removed from the state of mind of the collective of the activistic journalists of RTV and their …
“Directors, editors and journalists are being let go… Will you keep quiet this time, too?” MEP Romana Tomc reacted strongly on Twitter, calling on those who are largely responsible for what is going on to take responsibility after the most recent brutal staff purge at the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS), which is more …
The national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS) recently announced that it had “refreshed” the show Arena by removing presenters Igor Pirkovič and Vida Petrovčič and replacing them with new presenters. Valentina Plaskan was also left without her show – Dnevnik. The new term for depoliticisation and the reckoning with recalcitrant presenters is, therefore, “refreshment”. In …
“In addition to the migrant crisis, we also have the Roma problem and increasing amounts of violence. And the Roma people are probably also partly helping with smuggling the migrants. The Minister said that this was a coalition commitment and that there was not much he could do about it personally. We, the local people, …
On Tuesday, Jadranka Rebernik, the Editor-in-Chief of Television Slovenia’s news programme, sent in her irrevocable resignation to Zvezdan Martič, the new Chairman of the board of the national media outlet, Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS). Until a new editor-in-chief is appointed, Polona Fijavž will lead the editorial department as the Acting Editor-in-Chief. Rebernik’s resignation comes as no …
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Slovenia, and with it, part of the European Union, is about to be hit by a huge wave of migrants. This is also reinforced by the actions Russia is launching in some African countries as part of its special war, through the Wagner network and many other activities. The authorities of some countries had already …
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“The role of fences is to channel migration so that there is not one group of people for every kilometre, but to gather them at certain points where the main groups of migrants are located. As a result, it is easier for the police to deal with them. However, it is impossible to expect the …
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