Replying to EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova’s letter about the STA situation, Culture Minister Vasko Simoniti said the fact that the state is required to finance the STA under the law was not controversial. The government agrees with this, but the funding must be transparent and public service done in accordance with the law. …
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The obstruction obviously failed, but the Speaker of the National Assembly Igor Zorčič is right when he says that such an obstruction does not make the most sense, as the agenda items would be discussed some other time and thus would not be swept from the agenda – political scientist Dr Miro Haček commented on …
The mosque costing approximately 3 million euros is to be built near the city’s emblematic monument. The local Muslim community started a fundraising campaign because they lacked the funds to build it. The on-line action did not prove successful, so they are planning an in-person fundraiser on 31 October. After nearly a decade and a …
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Donald J. Trump has declared war on the ever-increasing and brazen censorship measures of the Big Tech antitrust media and to this end has launched the Trump Media Technology Group – TMTG. In a press release dated 26.10.2021, Donald J. Trump has issued his following statement on the background and goals of said media foundation. Statement on …
As we recently reported on our web portal, according to our information the Prime Minister Janez Janša has not received the verdict in the “stollen villa” case yet, although it is already known that the Velenje District Court ruled in favour of the plaintiff, the Social Democrats party. Janša also did not receive an invitation …
At the request of the coalition parties SDS, NSi and SMC, the 63rd extraordinary session of the Committee on Finance was convened recently to discuss the largest financial fiasco in the history of Slovenia, which happened in 2013 and 2014 and was caused by the government of Alenka Bratušek, which made the decision to expropriate …
Despite record numbers of newly infected people, protests still took place in several cities in Slovenia on Wednesday. As usual, the worshippers of totalitarian symbols were among them this week as well. Certain media outlets are trying really hard to sell the story that the people at the protests are politically undecided, but the red …
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“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 …
