“SD president defends police inaction in attacks on MPs,” Interior Minister Aleš Hojs commented on a statement by Tanja Fajon, who condemned the Minister for insulting police officers with slackers, and then she accused the SDS party that by changing generations it creates an impatient society. But Fajon, with her harsh rhetoric, created the conditions for …
The urgent petition aims to prevent the offering of Islam as a regular school subject in Bavaria with the start of the new school year. Several AfD members of the Bavarian parliament and citizens have jointly filed an urgent petition with Bavaria’s Constitutional Court against the planned teaching of Islam in Bavarian schools, Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. …
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The banking group NLB reported EUR 139.8 million in net profit for the first half of the year, a rise of 90% year-on-year, which came with a “visible contribution” from the NLB’s latest acquisition, the Serbian bank Komercijalna Banka. Net interest income increased by 32% to EUR 198.6 million and net non-interest income was up …
Dravske Elektrarne Maribor (DEM) will launch next week construction of a new solar power plant adjacent to the Zlatoličje Hydro Power Plant, some 20 kilometres south-east of Maribor. Almost 6,000 photovoltaic modules are planned to be installed, with total rated output of 2.7 MWp expected to produce 3,000 MWh of electricity annually. The project worth …
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Job vacancies in Slovenia increased by almost 25% from the first quarter to over 20,500 in the second quarter of the year. The strongest demand for workers was in the hospitality sector and in culture and entertainment. The country’s vacancy rate thus rose to a quarterly record of 2.6%, the Statistics Office reported. Despite lockdown …
A year ago, I wrote an article about Belarus and the mass protests against the re-election of its President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994. The protests were suppressed with great severity, and in the course of a few days thousands and thousands were arrested, as the reporter Witold Dobrowolski told me, …
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First, the constitutional judges annulled the part of the act ordering the parliamentary investigation in the case of Franc Kangler and others, which refers to the assessment of the correctness of certain court decisions and determining the responsibility of judges for decisions in specific court proceedings, and then they did the same in the case …
Slovenia has taken over the Presidency in rather thankless circumstances. Even if we leave aside the stubborn pandemic and the pressing need for a digital and green transition and increased safety and resilience of the alliance against many foreseeable and unforeseeable threats, there remains a number of challenges in the foreign policy arena where the …
The Free Trade Union of Slovenia, the Trade Union Glosa and the Trade Union of Professional Firefighters of Slovenia are outraged by the dismissal of Matej Jemec, secretary of the Gorenjska regional organisation of the ZSSS, as they are convinced that it is an illegal dismissal. Now the support for Jemec has been also expressed in …
In Slovenia, the left still worships totalitarian symbols of communism, such as the red star or the sickle and hammer. Even in the middle of the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, there is a monument to the mass murderer Boris Kidrič, and many roads or streets are named after dictator Josip Broz Tito. That is why the …
Last week, Slovenia’s Prime Minister Janez Jansa caught the world’s attention when he publicly called for an international investigation into the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran and specifically the role of President-elect Ebrahim Raisi in that massacre. Addressing the Free Iran World Summit 2021 alongside distinguished international personalities such as former US …
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Slovenia has one Commissioner in the European Commission – namely, Janez Lenarčič, Commissioner for Crisis Management, who was approved as a candidate by Šarec’s government. He became better known to the public when he, along with some representatives in the European Parliament, tried to block European funds for Slovenia, which he then officially denied (along …
