Prime Minister Janez Janša has called for joint efforts to convince people to get vaccinated against coronavirus as he warned that a vaccination rate of 70% would have to be achieved until the end of the summer if Slovenia is to avoid new lockdowns. “If we do not achieve a vaccination rate of 70% by
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At the webinar organized by the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations in Belgium, Minister of Defence Matej Tonin, MSc, presented the priorities of the Slovenian Presidency of the EU Council in the defence and security sector. The webinar was moderated by Dr Sven Biscop, expert in the field of the EU’s Common Security and
More restrictions on the services sector have been lifted. Casinos fully reopened today and there are no more restrictions on the number of customers in shops. The rule of reconvalescence, testing or vaccination remains in place indoors. Customers, including in shops, who can prove they have been vaccinated, tested or have recently recovered from Covid-19
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Anti-government propaganda is only intensifying before the referendum on the law amending the water law. Activist actors play on the audience’s sentiment in their recordings – they obviously have no real arguments, and the majority media are insanely reporting on the alleged lies that the government coalition is supposed to spread with its leaflet. However, there
Between 2015 and 2018 the Dutch government led by Mark Rutte sponsored a number of jihadists and organisations that violate people’s fundamental human rights. When the financing problems surfaced, the prime minister began to mount obstacles to the investigation which, as a result, could only be launched in 2021, instead of 2018. Dutch PM Mark
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Those who are inoculated will likely be left out of the fourth wave, Hungary’s prime minister told public radio during his regular Friday morning interview. Today is the second consecutive day that the virus has claimed no fatalities and only twenty-two people are on ventilators. In addition, five and a half million people will be
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On the first day of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, we reported that the Commission approved Slovenia’s recovery and resilience plan, worth 2.5 billion euros. Now, however, new information has come to light, which reveals that some people have made considerable efforts to obstruct this approval – and among them
The concert I will wear a red star, prepared by Svetlana Makarovič and many guests, was held on Congress Square on Sunday. The organisers chose the 4th of July for the concert because, in the former common state of Yugoslavia, it was the day of celebrating the fighters. The central message of the event was
Tomaž Štih – nicknamed Libertarec (Libertarian) – shared an interesting piece of information on Twitter, about the left-wing parties’ fight; the SD party in particular, regarding the privatisation of water: they were part of the government coalitions that sold the companies Fructal, Radenska, Pivovarna Laško, Pivovarna Union and Costella. As part of the referendum campaign
Yesterday, Slovenia is taking over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the second time. On this occasion, the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and the College of Commissioners arrived to Ljubljana and met with the Slovenian Government. Before going to Brdo, where the working meetings took place,
Slovenia yesterday assumed the Presidency of the EU Council for the second time. The European Commission, headed by President Ursula von der Leyen, is visited our country to mark this occasion. After a morning visit to the Pediatric Clinic in Ljubljana, Prime Minister Janša and the President of the European Commission met for a bilateral
The European Commission gave the green light to Slovenia’s plan for resilience and recovery. This was message brought by the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and the College of European Commissioners to today’s meeting with the Slovenian Government, which is taking over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union