“If at the beginning I thought that it was just a matter of impropriety, I now have doubts. Was it even a police task? Which good was at risk? It would be very sensible for the Slovenian police to supplement their public announcement (Article 34 of the Police Duties and Powers Act) and reassure the …
Police intimidation of farmers before protests, police visiting journalist Jože Možina in his workplace, and the latest incident, a visit to pensioners by the Financial Administration. The use of the police to restrict protests and freedom of speech is clearly becoming a trend, and the current government is more than obviously using intimidation tactics to …
After Prime Minister Robert Golob announced a 0.2% statutory tax on banks’ balance sheets, saying it was the only way to help with flood recovery, the Minister of Finance has now announced “forced aid” for others, too. So, what is coming? The final showdown with capitalism and businesses? Prime Minister Robert Golob believes that the …
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In the first half of the year alone, 500,000 people applied for asylum in the European Union, Switzerland and Norway combined. The number of asylum applications in the EU-27 plus Norway and Switzerland rose to more than half a million in the first half of the year. The EU’s Malta-based asylum agency, the European Asylum …
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On this week’s episode of the show Arena on RTV Slovenia, many were left speechless by the story of a young family who lost everything in the recent floods. In addition to leaving them homeless, the flood also put their youngest child, five-month-old Oskar, who is dependent on specialised medical equipment to survive due to …
Prime Minister Robert Golob announced a 0.2% statutory tax on banks’ balance sheets on a recent episode of the show Odmevi (Echoes). Apparently, taxes are the only way for this government to deal with the matters, and it sees this as a solution for the banking sector to help in the post-flood reconstruction, although there …
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Slovenia has been shaken by a new, albeit hidden, affair that must not be overlooked: the erroneous projection of gross domestic product, or rather the downward revision of GDP growth by the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, which is outrageous. Although the government coalition makes it sound as if there will be no …
MP Jelka Godec, the leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) parliamentary group, has recently addressed a call to the Speaker and Vice-Presidents of the National Assembly, the leaders of the parliamentary groups, and the representatives of national minorities in the National Assembly, to express their views on respect for the …
According to calculations, under the Janša government, Slovenia’s GDP growth had been the highest in the last ten years, but today it has fallen even below the European average. The variations from one calculation to another are not unusual, but this time, the huge deviation of three percentage points is striking. In its response to …
If we were to only listen to the authorities, we would probably believe that the people of Logatec are absolutely delighted with the asylum centre in their town. However, the information we received from our reader from Logatec paints a different picture. Migrants arrive at the centre with a police escort, and the number of …
We, ordinary people, go to work and arrange our annual leave by telling our employers when we plan on being away in December already. The private sector work process cannot afford to have a worker absent from work for two weeks and the employer finding out about it right before a big order, for example. …
Do you remember Miloš Njegoslav Milović, a former member of the special police forces, a security guard of former Prime Minister Drnovšek and the unofficial-official head of security of the current Prime Minister Robert Golob, who was first caught in a lie in the National Assembly because of a question about Milović, saying that he …
