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
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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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