Matjaž Nemec is an MP, vice-president of SD and president of KNOVS. Given the functions he holds and has held (he was vice-president of the National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia and also an assistant to the President of the Republic Borut Pahor), one would expect that he knows how parliamentary democracy works. But …
“I welcome anyone who believes in the values of our society: solidarity, equality, justice, and respect,” Tanja Fajon said at the SD party’s conference, adding that she does not judge or reject anyone in advance. Interestingly, it seems that she has forgotten about the agreement of the so-called Constitutional Arch Coalition, in which the left-wing …
“A 34-year-old and a 30-year-old patient are currently hospitalised in the intensive care unit, and a few days ago, two men – a 35-year-old and a 41-year-old – died in Slovenia. More than four hundred people are currently hospitalised due to Covid-19, which is four times as many as in Denmark, which has almost three …
At Monday’s meeting, the Slovenian Press Agency Supervisory Board appointed Igor Kadunc as the new director of the agency. His full term will begin on the 1st of January next year, and until then, he will be running the agency as acting director from the 31st of October onwards. Kadunc recently left the position of …
There is no doubt that there are terrorists who have entered Europe via illegal migration routes, and that among them there are some who have been hidden by Muslim communities. But it’s not so much about the number of immigrants, but about how immigration works, how integrated Muslims feel. This, of course, is their responsibility, …
I use military jargon to make it clear that we are in a battle. It is a struggle that the centre-right is waging not to take part in it, but to win it, to “stabilise and rebuild” Rome, through three slogans that, in this time of extreme decay and material and idealistic neglect of our …
The Office for Slovenians Abroad is to see its annual budget increase from EUR 10.17 million this year to EUR 10.7 million in 2022 and to a record EUR 11.3 million in 2023. This follows from the national budget documents for the coming two years that were reviewed by the parliamentary Commission for Slovenians Abroad. …
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The left in the European Parliament wants to criminalize center-right governments, Milan Zver told Magyar Hírlap. A delegation from the European Parliament’s Committee on Fundamental Rights visited Ljubljana. Milan Zver, a member of the European Parliament for the Slovenian ruling party, told the Hungarian daily Magyar Hírlapthat he did not expect a balanced assessment. A delegation …
The delegation of the Committee of the European Parliament, headed by Sophie in ‘t Veld, came to a three-day visit to Slovenia this week. They were supposed to also have a meeting with representatives of the Ministry of Culture, but because the MEPs did not allow the meeting to be filmed, the ministry cancelled it. …
A special fact-finding group from the European Parliament visited Slovenia this week in order to check what is going on in our country in person. The leader of the mission, Sophie in ‘t Veld, emphasised that the delegation’s intention was not to overthrow the government but to establish the facts. “Our task is to monitor …
Who does David Sassoli think he is, warning the Prime Minister Janez Janša about “attacks” on Members of the European Parliament also being attacks on European citizens? And on what basis can the President of the European Parliament, who lost 70 percent of his voters in ten years, even accuse the Slovenian Prime Minister of …
If a Social Democrat-led government is formed in Berlin in the near future, which is increasingly expected, Ljubljana will become the westernmost European capital of the center-right movement, which is very uncomfortable for the party family that has dominated EU politics for decades. The future of the European People’s Party (EPP) is bleak, according to Politico,which …
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