Slovenia will formally announce its candidature for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the 2024–2025 term in New York today. The decision on the candidature put forth on the initiative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was adopted by the Government of the Republic of Slovenia after having been considered by the …
An umbrella organisation of the Slovenian minority in the Austrian state of Carinthia has urged new Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer and his government to immediately initiate reform legislation on ethnic minorities. In the call issued on Monday, the National Council of Carinthian Slovenians (NSKS) congratulated Nehammer on taking over and also thanked the former Chancellor …
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As a representative of the Slovenian EU presidency, Foreign Minister Anže Logar expressed strong support for the International Criminal Court (ICC) on behalf of the EU and its member states as he addressed via video call on Monday the 20th session of the assembly of states parties to the Rome Statute of the ICC. Logar …
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EU health ministers, meeting in Brussels on Tuesday under the chairmanship of Slovenia’s Janez Poklukar, called for fast and coordinated action to tackle the surge in coronavirus and the spread of the Omicron variant. They supported the general applicability of the EU digital Covid certificate and emphasized the importance of vaccination and booster jabs. Poklukar …
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The foundry LTH Castings officially launched a new production line for aluminium components for powertrains of all-electric BMW cars in its Ljubljana facility. The company said on the occasion that the new line brought new jobs, and labelled it as a new step towards transition to e-mobility and digitalisation. By: J.S., STA
EU finance ministers, meeting in Brussels under the chairmanship of Slovenia’s Andrej Šircelj, reached political consensus to upgrade the EU rules on reduced VAT rates, updating the list of goods and services for which reduced rates or exemptions are allowed. The new rules give member states more flexibility to choose which products will be subject …
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Slovenia’s national medical ethics committee has no reservations towards Lagevrio, a medicine also known as molnupiravir. The committee maintains that the drug brings significant progress in fighting the coronavirus epidemic, as it prevents a severe course of Covid-19 or death. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended the drug for coronavirus treatment on 19 November even …
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“The Supreme Court has announced in advance that Masleša will win the lawsuit. This is an unprecedented scandal. Let it be known that the old communists still control the judiciary. And worst of all, this comes from a post published by the Supreme Court itself. And they are not even embarrassed by it,” journalist Igor …
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“At this point, we should ask ourselves whether the Constitutional Court really believes that public administration employees are the type of people that would rather be exposed to a Covid-19 infection than get vaccinated – with the abundance of vaccines we currently have available – in order to satisfy the recovered/vaccinated rule. I’m sorry, but …
At its meeting on Monday, the European Union’s Employment and Social Policy Council reached an agreement on the proposed directive on adequate minimum wages, which is aimed at ensuring fair working conditions in the EU. This is a remarkable success for Slovenia, and especially Minister Janez Cigler Kralj, as the agreement between the Member States …
The head of the advisory group at the Ministry for Health, Mateja Logar, took part in the press conference on COVID 19. A total of 1,857 PCR tests were carried out yesterday, confirming 775 new infections. The proportion of positive tests was 41%. The 2,986 PCR tests carried out on Saturday confirmed 1,116 new infections, …
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Marica Uršič Zupan, a journalist for the regional newspaper Primorske Novice, was appointed ombudsman at public broadcaster RTV Slovenija, an office concerned with processing complaints by viewers and listeners. She will start her five-year term on 18 January pending approval by the public broadcaster’s general manager to succeed veteran RTV Slovenija journalist Ilinka Todorovski, who …
