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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Santiago Abascal, the leader and MP of the Spanish VOX party, paid a visit to Hungary and was also received by Hungarian PM Viktor Orban in Budapest on Thursday morning, PM Orban’s press chief, Bertalan Havasi, told Hungary’s state news agency (MTI). “Border protection, family policy, Christian culture – we believe this is what the …
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The 16-18- year-olds of Chechen origin under investigation by the General Directorate for Internal Security, are suspected of having been involved in the preparation of a violent assault. Some weeks ago another six men who were suspected members of an illegal network were arrested in the same vicinity. As part of a large-scale counter-terrorism operation, …
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“They are acting as if it is unconstitutional if the people who are in power change from time to time. In doing so, they occasionally forget that the previous government disbanded and fell apart right before the biggest crisis and that a captain who gives up on steering the ship during the biggest storm and …
According to unofficial data, 75,807 persons were registered as unemployed at the Employment Service of Slovenia on the 24th of May, which is 3,478 less than at the end of April. This information proves that the government measures adopted to help restart the economy are working. Current unofficial data is a continuation of the success …
On Friday, everyone who disagrees with the policies of the current government will once again join forces against it. Milan Kučan’s former son-in-law and the supervisor in Jamnik’s Modra Zavarovalnica insurance company, Branimir Štrukelj, will also be among the main protagonists of the event. The Education, Science and Culture Trade Union of Slovenia sent an …
In his presentation of the Act amending the Water Act, Minister of the Environment and Spatial Planning Andrej Vizjak emphasised that the new law tightens the possibility of interventions on coastal properties and that interventions there are no longer decided politically but professionally. The initiators of the Clean Water Referendum are trying to do the …
“What is behind this choice is just politics, as certain politicians believe they need Vojnović in order to recruit and strengthen the electoral base among people whose mother tongue is not Slovenian. But that is a misconception, and besides, a text like this has no place at the Matura exam. It has as much to …
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Practically everyone knows the playwright, poet and translator Boris A. Novak. Recently, the winner of the Prešeren Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 has been spotted at several of the anti-government protests, where, among other things, he read and even tried to sing a few verses he wrote that speak about none other than Prime Minister Janez …
