They came today and will stay until Friday. Of course, this is about LIBE, the European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. This is a committee that painted a black image of Slovenia in the field of media months ago, and now the representatives of this committee have come to Slovenia, where
A school’s administration has cancelled Halloween celebrations over concerns about student equity and inclusion because Black boys did not want to participate. A Seattle elementary school has cancelled Halloween activities because Black males do not celebrate and, more generally, students of colour feel marginalised by the holiday. The school delivered the news in a newsletter
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The state will allocate EUR 1.28 million in budget funds for aid to beekeepers who were hit by frost this year, the government decided. According to the Slovenian Beekeepers’ Association, this year’s season was the worst on record. The government’s decree is the basis for providing aid to beekeepers who recorded a drop in revenue
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The government got acquainted with the current price trends in energy markets and decided not to take any action for now. “Slovenia is on the safe side for now, but it is absolutely necessary to invest more in renewables and in new nuclear technologies,” Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec said. The government set up a task
The chairwoman of the European Parliament’s Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group, Sophie in ‘t Veld, is currently visiting Slovenia. She came here to get the “real picture” of what is happening in Slovenia, particularly in the field of the rule of law and the media – despite the fact that she
Prime Minister Janez Janša outlined the priorities of Slovenia’s EU presidency to the European Committee of the Regions, highlighting post-Covid recovery, green transition and the EU’s strategic autonomy, while also touching on subsidiarity. He argued for a greater degree of inclusion of local and regional communities and called for respecting subsidiarity and the fact that
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After the council of the Pensioners’ Party (DeSUS) adopted a resolution yesterday denying the government any further support, the party’s MPs said they were planning to continue with the same course of action as so far where they agree what their vote will be on each legislative proposal on a case-by-case basis. Speaking to reporters,
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Tourism is in for a challenging period of recovery and transformation after the pandemic, agreed participants of Days of Slovenian Tourism in Postojna. “If we merely wanted to return to pre-pandemic times, we would have missed a valuable lesson. Now is the time for improvement and upgrades,” said Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek. The event called
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Enabling Egypt to protect its land and maritime borders is vital for both Europe and Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said after a meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi on Wednesday. At a press briefing held jointly with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Hungary’s premier said that “Berlin’s security does not start in its suburbs.
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The main objective of Erika Mouynes’ official visit to Washington, D.C., on September 30th, 2021, was to discuss the immigration and security issues stemming from illegal crossing of the United States border with Mexico; the border towns of the state of Texas have become the main destination for over seventy thousand Central American and Caribbean
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Ten EU countries, Slovenia included, have asked the EU Commission to recognise nuclear power as a low-carbon energy source that should be part of the Union’s transition towards climate neutrality and help reduce the bloc’s energy dependence. The ten countries say nuclear is a “key affordable, stable and independent energy source” that could protect EU
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“As far as I know, certain forms of media concentration that are happening are not in line with the current rules. This indicates a very weak functioning of supervisory institutions, their inefficiency, and in the worst-case scenario, some people in these institutions might even be connected with certain media tycoons and therefore work for them,”