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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Slovenian Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Patrushev discussed possible forms of cooperation in the field of agriculture and rural development at a bilateral meeting and signed an action plan to strengthen cooperation between the two countries. The documents highlight cooperation in the areas of beekeeping, animal health, organic farming, family farming, …
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At the last debate before the presentation of the draft Strategic Compass, which will set the political guidelines for the development of European defence and security in the following decade, EU defence ministers discussed the building of a rapid response force, countering hybrid threats, critical capability development and deepening of strategic partnership with NATO by …
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A survey that could have it all. 67% of French people fear the “great exchange” of the population, i.e. the extinction or gradual displacement of the white and Christian population by other populations, and 61% believe it will happen, according to a survey published today by Harris Interactive for the Challengesnewspaper. According to the same new …
When Alenka Bratušek made a fool of herself in front of the competent European parliamentary committee and embarrassed Slovenia with her (self)nomination for the position of European Commissioner, not even the ALDE group supported her. Bratušek was certain that at least part of the blame for it lay with Jelko Kacin, who she believed was …
The Prime Minister of Slovenia, Janez Janša, is constantly looking for new opportunities to promote Slovenia and investments that would help strengthen the Slovenian economy. After inviting visionary and inventor Elon Musk to invest in a new factory in Slovenia, he also spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook on Wednesday night. Tim Cook is the …
