The requirement to meet the PCT condition for access to goods, services and the exercise of certain rights and benefits is not discriminatory against unvaccinated people who could be vaccinated but have not been vaccinated, according to the proponent of the principle of equality. Discrimination means treating someone worse because of their personal circumstances, which …
Slovenian Scientist Dr Sašo Dolenc responded to an article written by a sociologist and publicist Dr Tomaž Mastnak in Dnevnik, in which Mastnak expressed the belief that very little is known about the nature, origin and immediate consequences, as well as the long-term consequences of the covid-19 disease. The same, he said, applies to diagnosing, …
Prompted by the denial of traditional genders, some progressive TikTokers have come to question not only their identity, but also whether they are members of the human race. The recent video posted by the TikToker starts with a short, nearly commonplace declaration of her preferred pronouns. The individual who biologically resembles a girl but does …
“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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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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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 …
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 …
