In the last few days there have been increasing rumors of a merger between the Lega Salvini and Forza Italia. Initially it would be about the formation of individual parliamentary groups, but the possibility of founding a real party, the Lega Italia, with Salvini as secretary and Berlusconi as president, is looming on the horizon. Until a …
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The short film encourages young people to damage the electrical grid and to attack Israeli soldiers and repairmen with stones and Molotov cocktails. The roughly two-minute long animated cartoon video was made by the West Bank wing of the terrorist organisation Hamas, which also released it on Telegram. The film shows two Palestinian boys joyfully …
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People need to be woken up and reminded of those fundamental constitutional norms or values on which every policy should be based and on which independent Slovenia also stands. Among these values are freedom, democracy, equality and, of course, security. We all have the right to live safely. We are all equal before the law, …
“If that is true, then Judge Čeferin should be excluded from the proceedings. You do not have to be a lawyer to recognise the conflict of interest in this situation,” former Constitutional Court Judge Jan Zobec told us in response to our question. A judge who is associated with a law firm may not rule …
Not only is Marko Milosavljević, a university professor of journalism, spreading lies and slandering Slovenia abroad; this time he even went a step further and told the show The Listening Post on the English TV channel Al Jazeera that in Slovenia, “lots of journalists and editors are afraid that something will happen to them,” while …
“The fact that not everyone voted for this decision says a lot, but it also says that this decision is inconclusive and illogical. With the accusations of such a large number of deaths which the government is now being blamed for, the Constitutional Court still believes that the government’s powers are too broad,” the former …
“Certain slip-ups are happening, for example, the cases in which Constitutional Court judge Čeferin should have eliminated himself from the proceedings, but he did not do that, as they tried to somehow save those cases. The problem was that they did it in a way that made them even worse. Things were aggravated with the …
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Janez Janša attended the formal handover of 300 thousand doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which Hungary lent to Slovenia. On this occasion, a press conference took place in Ljubljana, and it was attended by Prime Minister Janez Janša, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Hungary Petér Szijjártó, Minister of …
The National Assembly passed an amendment sponsored by Democrat (SDS) MP Jože Tanko under which the Constitutional Court will need to handle each petition for which the petitioner had legitimate interests on submission even though they have lost those while waiting for their petition to be handled. Tanko said the court would thus no longer …
The National Assembly adopted on Wednesday an amended housing act whose overarching goal is to increase the number of public rental homes in the country. Under the new legislation, public housing funds will be allowed to take on more debt to speed up construction of new flats. According to government projections, an extra EUR 200 …
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Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec met his Austrian counterpart Leonore Gewessler in Vienna to discuss bilateral cooperation, especially in transport and infrastructure, and bilateral relations. They agreed cooperation should be strengthened in infrastructure. Vrtovec also presented to his Austrian counterpart the priorities of Slovenia’s upcoming EU presidency in the second half of the year in transport. …
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The Culture Ministry announced the art exhibition that was planned to be put up at the European Parliament during Slovenia’s EU presidency will go ahead, yet under conditions set by Minister Vasko Simoniti. This is after the Parliament said ten days ago the show was cancelled and Simoniti said that was his decision. “The works …
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