The first year of the Golob government was mainly a year of inflation. Although inflation is a pan-European and global phenomenon, which came about as a result of printing “cheap” helicopter money, Slovenia has so far consistently surpassed the EU average in terms of inflation. Fuel prices have been the only thing that has kept …
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The EU state wants to meet its environmental targets by slaughtering more than 200,000 cows. The plan is to cull 65,000 cows a year for a duration of three years in order to reduce harmful emissions produced by agriculture. According to reports seen by the Irish Independent, in order to meet the ambitious climate targets, the Irish …
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Religious life in Germany has become significantly more diverse in recent decades. In 1950, almost 96% of Germans belonged to the two main Christian denominations, Catholicism and Protestantism. At that time, the share of atheists and other religions was only 4.4 percent. The picture, however, is very different today, Bertelsmann Stiftung Foundation’s study Religion Monitor …
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After the promoters of the new Radio-Television Slovenia Act promised to depoliticise the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS), the programme council was taken over by left-wing non-governmental organisations, after getting the confirmation from the Constitutional Court. Goran Forbici, the director of the CNVOS Centre of Slovenian NGOs, became chairman of the Programme Council of …
Tanja Fajon, the Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, recently posted a photo online before leaving for the USA, where the vote on the next non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council will take place in New York. She is pictured with a glass of (presumably) liquor, and apparently, somebody else from the Minister’s …
“Slovenian historians and researchers are deeply concerned by the government’s recent abolition of the National Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Communist Violence,” a group of Slovenian historians and intellectuals said in a public statement, adding that there is a civilisational need for such a day. You can read their letter in its entirety …
In April, 345,884 pensioners, or 54.6 percent of all pensioners, received a pension of less than 800 euros. The poverty risk threshold is set at 827 euros. At the same time, the average net pension in the country is 820 euros, which means that it is also below the poverty risk threshold. The average net …
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Public posts prove that Tina Gaber, the mistress of Prime Minister Robert Golob, has promoted various pyramid schemes in the past, in which hundreds of people have been misled and defrauded, losing millions of euros of their invested money. Although Gaber is rapidly deleting everything that could be a burden from her past from her …
A commemorative ceremony with a mass was held on Saturday in memory of those killed after the war at the abyss near Kren in Kočevski rog. The service was conducted by the President of the Slovenian Bishops’ Conference (Slovenska škofovska konferenca) and Bishop of Novo mesto, Andrej Saje. In his address, he stressed the need …
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“Clearly, this mandate is seen as a mandate where dominance must be shown, as if this is a sign of power. However, if you are actually powerful, you don’t have to prove it,” former President of the Republic Borut Pahor recently told the weekly Domovina. After leaving his previous post, former President of the Republic, …
Ever since the government of Robert Golob took power, we have been witnessing a deliberate assault on virtually all subsystems of society. Under the guise of “depoliticisation” and the removal of the legacy of the Janša reformist government, the Ministry of the Interior, the Police, the Constitutional Court and the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia …
“Police officers of the Ministry of the Interior’s internal protection are dealing with my Bobi, the donkey. Before that, they were dealing with my birdhouse and my 40-year-old tractor, but now, they are asking – where is Bobi?” Franc Kangler recently said in a conversation with our media outlet. The former mayor of Maribor and …
