Radio Ognjišče prepared a show on the topic of 30 years of the independent path of Slovenian politics and civil society. They talked about this with a respected lawyer Vera Mejak, former President of the National Assembly and director of the International Institute for Sustainable Development, Spatial Planning and Environmental Studies Janez Podobnik, and head …
Arriving at a NATO summit, Prime Minister Janez Janša said Slovenia would not be able to reach the NATO target of 2% of GDP in defence spending by 2024, but it must do its homework. He noted that under the current government the spending trend had been reversed. In 2014, NATO members set the target …
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Foreign Minister Anže Logar and his Italian counterpart Luigi di Maio chaired the 7th session of the Coordinating Committee of Ministers between Slovenia and Italy. Bilateral issues were discussed along with Slovenia’s upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU. In a joint statement signed after the meeting, the ministers voiced the desire for stronger …
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A school district decides to strike the names of holidays in school calendars – using the expression “day off” instead – in order to not hurt anyone’s sensitivities. Parents are outraged that their children are denied learning about their own holidays. In a New Jersey school district, Columbus Day had been renamed Indigenous Peoples’ Day …
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Both the number of members and supporters of the Lebanese Hezbollah terrorist organisation has risen in Germany, an intelligence report suggests. Germany has witnessed an increase in both the number of members and supporters of the Lebanese terrorist organisation Hezbollah, according to a recent report by the local intelligence agency of the Office for the …
Former Minister of the Interior, Boštjan Poklukar from the ranks of the LMŠ party, who was extremely fond of spying on the MPs, is full of contradictions himself. However, he is currently accusing the current government of being contradictory, as he is convinced that this is an “ultra-right” government. This time he attacked the ministers …
For six months, Bosnia and Herzegovina has not allowed the tax law expert Rok Snežič, Ph.D., to enter the country in which he lives with his wife and children, and operates business. He intiated numerous legal proceedings and received no response. He asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to issue an interim measure …
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The government has adopted a decree that will regulate the performance of the public service of the Slovenian Press Agency in more detail. Uroš Urbanija, director of the Government Communication Office, emphasised that the existing situation is being resolved, as the funding has stopped due to violations of the law of the agency’s director Veselinovič. …
The government decided to extend the majority of existing coronavirus restrictions while slightly easing them in the cultural sector, where serving food and drinks will once again be permitted during cultural events. The remaining restrictions – the majority have to do with consumer-facing services – have been extended until 20 June. The government said this …
On the 29th of June, 20 years will have passed since the signing of the Agreement on Succession Issues of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia – SFRY. How many payments did the Succession Fund of the Republic of Slovenia make as part of the framework of implementing the judgment of the European Court …
Former President of the Republic, Milan Kučan, is upset, and he quickly made a statement for the Slovenian Press Agency, in which he expectedly attacked the move of the current government, which “removed the ‘confidential’ classification from his report on the possible further developments in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from the year 2011.” He said that …
“The Novo mesto District Court has rejected the criminal complaints against Serb Dragomir Grujović, who has been repeatedly accused of war crimes against civilians as well as attempted murder in the last three decades, which means that he has now been acquitted. Three decades after Slovenia gained its independence, the oldest criminal case, the last …
