Slovenia plans to increase the number of personnel in NATO’s mission in Iraq (NMI) to up to 15 soldiers and civilian experts under a decision adopted by the government in the summer that the parliamentary foreign policy and defence committees took note yesterday. NATO defence ministers decided in February to expand the Iraq mission from …
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The European Commission deliberately looks the other way when it comes to national minorities, and there is a political motive behind this, wrote hungarian researcher Balázs Tárnok in an opinion piece for Newsweek. Many Europeans belong to a cultural, linguistic or ethnic group within a Member State that is different from the majority. This applies, …
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Before the joint meeting of the Governments of the Republic of Slovenia and Hungary, the Prime Minister Janez Janša yesterday attended a ceremony marking the opening of the 53rd International Trade Fair in Celje and addressed the participants. The Prime Minister began by welcoming the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, and other high-ranking guests, …
The home affairs ministers of Slovenia and Hungary, Aleš Hojs and Sandor Pinter, met in Celje on Wednesday on the sidelines of a meeting between the two prime ministers, Janez Janša and Viktor Orban, to discuss the security situation and migration. A press release from the Slovenian Ministry of Interior Affairs, said the two ministers …
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UNESCO, the United Nations educational scientific and cultural organisation, has formally declared a biosphere reserve spanning the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers, the first five-country biosphere in the world. The area, spanning 900,000 hectares along the three rivers, has thus become the largest protected riparian reserve in Europe.
A total of 1,364 new coronavirus infections were confirmed in Slovenia on Tuesday, up 25% from a week earlier, while six patients with Covid-19 died, according to the latest data. The positivity rate was just over 20%, down from almost 25% a day earlier. The 7-day average of new cases rose to 953 and the …
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A few days ago, on the 20th anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda Islamists, which claimed nearly three thousand lives in the United States, the whole world sympathised with the people of the United States. However, Mesec’s Levica party (the Left) published a short article on its website, entitled “20 Years after 9/11,” …
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On Tuesday, the government visited the Savinjska statistical region. The members of the government first met for a working consultation in Podčetrtek, where the mayor of the Podčetrtek Municipality, Peter Misja, gave an opening speech. The mayor commended a number of projects that are taking place in the municipality at the moment and pointed out …
Thirty years after gaining our independence, we still have a half-democracy in Slovenia because the left-wing political forces never intended to really step down from power and allow for pluralism, said the retired Archbishop of Ljubljana, Anton Stres, at the end of the 56th Draga Study Days 2021, adding that the forces of continuity still …
Shootings, knife attacks, blasts, grenades, automatic weapons and gang wars. Sweden is hard to recognise these days, a Swedish policeman says, adding that they are completely helpless against gang wars. Another officer has launched a petition calling on the government to improve their working conditions. The recent death of a colleague’, who was shot in …
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FM Anže Logar announced at the international donor conference for Afghanistan that Slovenia will donate EUR 300,000 in aid to help the country amid a deteriorating humanitarian crisis. The funds will be used for food, medical care and aid for the displaced Afghans and for refugees in the neighbouring countries, the Foreign Ministry said in …
The Slovenian Armed Forces estimate the interest in voluntary service has increased by 40% to 50% this year as a new concept of voluntary service was introduced on 5 July. Presenting the experiences, Lieutenant-Colonel Jurij Raduha, the head of the SAF Training Centre, said that of the 172 candidates involved in the first of three …
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