According to the latest report on youth unemployment by the European Statistical Office (Eurostat), last year, under the centre-right government of Janez Janša, the unemployment rate among young people (aged 15 to 29) was below the EU average and among the lowest in the European Union. The youth unemployment rate (people aged 15 to 29) …
“The people of Ljubljana say that all politicians steal, but Mayor Janković also does something. After four terms, we see what he can do and what he cannot. There were a lot of cosmetics, too many businesses for friends, but too little ambition to deal with the city’s essential problems. There is a feeling that …
Zbor za republiko believes that Ljubljana needs a new mayor Read More »
While the European Union and its commissioners deal with the media in Slovenia and Hungary, none of the high-ranking EU representatives ask the socialist government in Malta how the investigation of the murdered journalist Daphne Caurana Galizia is progressing. This hypocrisy of the Brussels bureaucracy and the European Commission was pointed out by the Polish …
During the last pre-election debate, which was held on the 13th of October at the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV), the presidential candidate Milan Brglez continuously claimed that the minutes of the Slovenian Chess Federation do not exist, and that the sponsorship contract did not make sponsorship conditional on his being elected as the …
“To bring normality back to Slovenia, to abolish dictatorship, to abolish totalitarianism, and to reintroduce democracy, the rule of law, to restore Slovenia’s reputation in the world, because the current government is bringing shame to us everywhere; to abolish political interference in the media,” said Sašo Jejčič, a retired criminal investigator, in April of this …
When presidential candidate Nataša Pirc Musar declared that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine was in clear violation of international law, there were shouts of opposition from the audience. The moderator of the discussion, Jaša Jenull, had to intervene, calm them down and remind them to be tolerant. On Tuesday, a pre-election debate of the candidates for …
Failure Before Jenull And Muki; Musar Was Repeatedly Booed Read More »
The Slovenian electricity network is under increasing pressure. After GEN-I sold the annual production of electricity from the Krško nuclear power plant under the leadership of Robert Golob, it now has to import it at significantly higher prices. According to the announcement of the monthly overhaul of the nuclear plant, which GEN simply forgot about, …
The latest public opinion poll conducted by the Parsifal Agency clearly shows that people are not in favour of the unnecessary and financially wasteful increase in the number of ministries. As much as 50.4 percent of the respondents said they were against the idea, and 16.7 percent were in favour of it, while 22.3 percent …
Following numerous allegations of irregularities related to the election of Milan Brglez, the former Speaker of the National Assembly and current presidential candidate, to the position of President of the Slovenian Chess Federation, the Siol web portal already checked last year whether his pre-election promises were actually realised and at what stage the pre-trial proceedings …
“The Visegrad Group, which includes the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary, should be extended to Slovenia,” Czech President Miloš Zeman said at the first meeting of the Visegrad four (V4) since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, European media outlets report. At the meeting in Bratislava, the leaders discussed energy security, inflation and the possible …
Foreign Minister Fajon Declined The Invitation To Join The Visegrad Group Read More »
Our editorial office has received a letter from chess players who, upon learning the news that Milan Brglez had resigned as President of the Slovenian Chess Federation in order to run for the position of President of the Republic of Slovenia, have made an analysis of his presidency of the Chess Federation. “If Slovenians elect …
“Slovenia continued to improve its absorption of the EU funds last year and was already four percentage points above the EU average,” Peter Žerjavič, the Delo newspaper’s correspondent from Brussels, recently reported. We were better than Austria, Germany and the Netherlands, commented former Prime Minister Janez Janša. It is undeniable that the former government of …
