Minister of Foreign Affairs Anže Logar met with French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian in Paris yesterday. The main purpose of his visit to France was to outline the achievements of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union and to discuss future work on the key European dossiers …
Slovenian writer Drago Jančar won the Milovan Vidaković International Literary Prize, awarded at the Prosefest international prose festival in Serbia’s Novi Sad. This year’s 15th edition of the festival, organised by the Novi Sad Cultural Centre, is taking place online between 13 and 16 December. Jančar’s novels and essays have been translated into 21 languages …
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Vaccination of children aged 5 to 11 is starting in Slovenia as the vaccine for them is already available. Vaccination will take place at vaccination centres, and from Thursday on, also at UKC Ljubljana hospital’s Paediatric Clinic, where 70 children have been already registered for a jab. This comes as the advisory group on immunization …
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President Borut Pahor received the credentials of three new ambassadors accredited to Slovenia, Kosovo’s Valdet Sadiku, the Dominican Republic’s Laura V. Faxas and New Zealand’s Brian Joseph Hewson, at the Presidential Palace. The Kosovo ambassador is based in Ljubljana. The ambassador of the Dominican Republic and the ambassador of New Zealand are meanwhile headquartered in …
The highly infectious Omicron variant of Sars-CoV-2 has been confirmed in Slovenia with PM Janez Janša announcing the news in parliament before Miroslav Petrovec, the head of the Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, told reporters the new variant was confirmed in four samples, all of them from Ljubljana. One of the persons had already had …
The government will decide on whether to introduce energy vouchers for the poorest households in January, when it has more data about energy price increases. Before that, the main measure to combat rising prices will be the special allowance for pensioners, included in the latest Covid relief package, PM Janez Janša told MPs. The energy …
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“We had a thorough and exhaustive discussion on migration and the rule of law,” PM Orban said during a joint press briefing, following a meeting of the premiers of the V4 countries and France. At the meeting of the Visegrad Group countries (the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia) and France, Hungary’s premier emphasized that …
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An African migrant sexually assaulted a French activist against mass migration, as he broke into her home. Thaïs d’Escufon, a former spokeswoman for the banned Generation Identity movement, talked with Le Figaro about the attack. The activist was returning home after a gym session in Lyon when she was attacked by a man who told her …
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At the request of the Levica party (the Left) MP Matej Tašner Vatovec, the National Assembly recently held a discussion on corruption and the mafia management of our country. The leader of the SDS parliamentary group, Danijel Krivec, said in the introduction to his speech that the proponent of the discussion should be congratulated for …
The Faculty of Law in Sarajevo has sent the Siol web portal the alleged certificate of the diploma of the Supreme Court judge Branko Masleša. As can be seen from the documents, Masleša graduated in 1975 and obtained the title of graduated attorney. We are still waiting for any proof of Masleša passing the bar …
Slovenia logged 783 new coronavirus cases for Saturday, a decline of 30% from the same day a week before, as 14 patients with Covid-19 died and hospitalisations kept falling, government figures show. This morning 883 patients were still hospitalised with Covid-19, including 243 in intensive care. The figures mark a decline 26 and four from …
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“Every citizen should have the possibility to actively, continuously and responsibly participate at all levels of the community, both in person and online. A progressive and inclusive approach can also help public administrations to develop better digital services that bring more added value to end users. However, the use of advanced digital technologies is only …
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