“Countries that adhere to the rule of law do not suspend judges like him. A measure like that is only used to silence unwanted judges,” lawyer Aleksander Pevec pointed out, also emphasising the importance of the independence of each individual judge. In his statement, he was, of course, referring to the now-former judge Zvjezdan Radonjić, …
Health Minister Janez Poklukar took part in the EU Health Summit in Berlin to note the importance of a stronger role of the EU in the field of global health. “This would bring geopolitical advantages, and would also be useful for member states and contributed to global health,” he said. A virtual round table debate …
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Police Commissioner Anton Olaj ordered for the investigation of death threats to Slovenia’s top officials and MPs to be taken over by a task force headed by the Criminal Police Directorate at the General Police Directorate. A press release from the police said the task force also included investigators from the Ljubljana Police Department and …
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Slovenia ranks 26th among 134 countries in the latest Global Talent Competitiveness Index for 2021, after ranking 31st among 132 countries last year in this extensive annual report compiled by French business school INSEAD, Swiss staffing company Adecco and tech giant Google. Slovenia’s best result was in the Vocational and Technical Skills pillar, where it …
These are sentences that we should carve into our brains. Because that’s what’s happening here. That’s what they think. And that’s why they’re here. A migrant demands to get on the bus without a ticket: “Italy is no longer your country,” she says. And she’s right not to rebel against the constant invasion like this …
The National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Parliament co-organised the ninth meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group on Europol, which was held in Brussels. The meeting was devoted to an overview of Europol’s activities in the present year and the presentation of Europol Draft Multiannual Programming Document 2022-2024. Cybercrime in …
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Op-Ed by Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia Dr Anže Logar, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany Heiko Maas, Minister of State and for Foreign Affairs of the Portuguese Republic Dr Augusto Santos Silva and Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of France Jean-Yves Le Drian. On …
According to the latest information, the unknown perpetrators addressed the mail, which contained death threats and even high-calibre bullets, to at least six different addresses. First, the information was made public that Prime Minister Janez Janša and Minister of Defence Matej Tonin received the aforementioned packages at their home addresses, and then the Minister of …
On Monday, the 25th of October 2021, the National Assembly continued its discussion on the proposed amendment to the Personal Income Tax Act, which also brings an increase in the general tax relief for income from capital. The coalition is satisfied with the amendment, but the opposition is concerned about the sustainability of public finances, …
Finance Minister Andrej Šircelj held several meetings as part of the annual session of the IMF and World Bank, held between last Monday and today. Bernardin Akitoby, chief of the IMF mission for Slovenia, said the upgraded economic forecast for Slovenia was a result of appropriate measures taken during the pandemic. The IMF projected a …
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At the press conference the Director of the National Institute of Public Health, Milan Krek, and Deana Potza from the Health Inspectorate provided the latest information on the COVID-19 situation in Slovenia. Milan Krek began by presenting the epidemiological data in individual EU Member States, where, with a few exceptions, the two-week number of new …
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Novartis has signed an initial agreement to use its manufacturing facility in Ljubljana to fill the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19. The Novartis Technical Operations site in Ljubljana will fill at least 24 million doses in its sterile manufacturing facilities in 2022, the Swiss pharma company announced on Thursday. Novartis plans to take bulk mRNA active …
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