Slovenia recorded 4,481 new coronavirus infections on Tuesday in what is the second highest daily number since the start of the epidemic. The test positivity rate stood at 42.4%. Hospitalisations continued to rise and another 20 Covid-19 patients died, according to government figures. The highest number of daily infections was recorded last Wednesday, 4,515. The …
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Lithuania, like its Baltic sister nations Latvia and Estonia, is a beautiful country with a very harsh and little-known history during the last century. In May 1940, under the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, the Baltic countries were occupied by the Soviet Union and annexed a month later. As in the rest of the territories occupied by the …
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The National Assembly appointed Rok Svetlič a judge on the Constitutional Court. Svetlič received 46 votes with only 46 MPs picking up their ballots because the centre-left opposition boycotted the vote. The coalition was joined by the SNS, DeSUS and minority MPs in endorsing the candidate. This was the fourth attempt to appoint a replacement …
Slovenia will donate 300,000 shots of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Moderna to Covax, the global initiative aimed at equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines. Africa was designated as the priority region. The vaccines are part of the common EU contract and slated for delivery this year. The government said the donation will have a positive …
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“I have a hard time imagining that while the number of covid patients is skyrocketing and we are approaching the Bergamo scenario, a normal person would actually call for a mass gathering of people at an illegal protest,” Dr Frace Cukjati commented on Dr Brigita Skela Savič’s calls to Friday’s protest. In a tweet, she …
A prominent member of the Social Democrats party (SD), Dr Brigita Skela Savič, publicly called for people to join the (illegal) protest, which is scheduled for Friday, the 12th of November, despite a temporary ban on gatherings in public areas. Given that the situation in Slovenia is still really bad and we are breaking records …
The ordeal in question lasted for more than a year, and even after all that time, the Government Communication Office and the Slovenian Press Agency, under the leadership of Boris Veselinovič, could not negotiate a new contract. With the new acting director of the agency, Igor Kadunc, the Government Communication Office managed to do that …
Szijjártó criticizes the EU Commission’s absurd position “Building border fortifications is the only efficient way to stop the influx of illegal immigrants.” That was the summary of Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, who received his Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkevics on Monday. While the situation on Poland’s border with Belarus worsened dramatically on Monday, the EU Commission …
In the show Beremo, retired Archbishop of Ljubljana, theologian and philosopher Anton Stres, spoke about the communist revolution during and after the Second World War, the post-war massacres and efforts for reconciliation and freedom of religion in Slovenia. Among other things, he pointed out that things have not been easing in our country in recent …
In the dispute over a security incident on the Polish-Belarusian border, the government in Warsaw has summoned the chardr of the Belarusian embassy in Poland. The conversation was about a group of “uniformed and armed with guns” who entered Polish territory from Belarus on Tuesday night, the Foreign Ministry in Warsaw said on Wednesday. “Poland …
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In Slovenia, just like in the rest of the former Yugoslav republics, there was no lustration; the old networks are still predominant – not only in politics and the economy but also in the judiciary. The conservative Prime Minister Janez Janša is a victim of their machinations. In 1988, a military court sentenced him to …
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) receives around 240 complaints from Slovenia every year. The court convicted Slovenia of human rights violations in 332 cases so far (93 percent). Slovenia has so far paid 295,644,418.49 euros in compensation from the state budget. In addition to the media, the judiciary is also a big problem …
