US President Joe Biden has sent his congratulations ahead of Statehood Day to President Borut Pahor. He described Slovenia as an esteemed partner and friend of the US, and a leading promoter of regional security. He stressed the importance of the fact that the 30th anniversary of Slovenia’s independence coincided with Slovenia’s second stint at …
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A 26-year-old man from Maribor who assaulted two police officers, two reporters and a photo journalist during a violent protest in Ljubljana last November has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. . Gregor Mitev, who had already signed a plea agreement in May, told the Ljubljana District Court today he regretted …
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In the show Kdo vam laže, the host of the show Boris Tomašič commented on the initiative of Tanja Fajon, which was also signed by Milan Brglez, Irena Joveva, Klemen Grošelj, and Ljudmila Novak, and addressed it to the Minister of Health Janez Poklukar. Namely, they want to provide the people of Slovenia with free …
“I thought America was different, but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying,” said journalist Yeonmi Park speaking about her experiences attending Columbia University. Park defected from North Korea as a child with her mother. “America’s future is as bleak as North Korea’s,” said a South …
Slovenia’s central bank has markedly upgraded its economic growth forecast for the country since December and is now projecting the economy to expand by 5.2% this year, up 2.1 percentage points, followed by a 4.8% growth in 2022, up from 4.5% forecast in December. Further afield, Banka Slovenije has kept its projections unchanged, which means …
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We are revealing the newest affair of the SD MP Gregor Židan. Through the Olimpija Football Club, he arranged for his acquaintance, a convicted fraudster Zoran Glišić, to serve his sentence as a coach’s assistant of the junior teams led by Židan, instead of serving time in prison. Glišić avoided prison with 1,080 hours of …
Prime Minister Janez Janša and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Matej Tonin, M.Sc., were in Brussels on Monday, where the NATO Summit took place, which focused on the NATO 2030 process, a future-oriented agenda centred on adapting NATO to new challenges. These challenges include: relations with Russia, terrorism, cyber-attacks and breakthrough technologies, …
Director-General of the Police, Anton Olaj, Ph.D., has announced that after learning about and then examining the criminal complaint against him, presented by the Levica party (The Left) at a press conference in the National Assembly on Wednesday, the 9th of June 2021, he has now filed a written criminal complaint against the party, on …
Slovenia climbed three spots to 9th among 165 countries in the implementation of the Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals, according to a report compiled by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the wings of the UN, the Bertelsmann Stiftung foundation and the Cambridge University Press. Slovenia has fared best in eradicating extreme forms of poverty, …
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The decade ahead of us will be a period of epidemics and mass migration. Member states and NATO must be prepared to respond to these challenges, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Brussels, after arriving at the one-day summit of NATO members on Monday. Whether the meeting will mark a turning point can only …
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Although the trial of those who threatened a teenage girl for criticising Islam is under way, she does not feel safe. She received new threats and, although she has no suicidal thoughts, she believes she may not be alive in five years. Mila, the French teenager who was harassed and mortally threatened on the internet …
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Having acquired frequencies for wireless broadband in a national auction in April, the telecommunications provider Telemach announce the launch of its 5G network for 15 June. The service will initially be available to users in Ljubljana’s town centre and commercial district BTC. Telemach was one of the four bidders to acquire frequency bands for the …
