“We stop being hostage to these foreign and private non-governmental organisations that organise the routes, the traffic, the transport and the migratory policies,” the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, recently said. He has been dealing with the issue of illegal migration since his days as the Minister of the Interior, and he also announced …
Presidential candidates Anže Logar and Nataša Pirc Musar faced off for probably the last time before Sunday’s elections. They talked about many topics, from international politics to the work of their predecessors, the museum of Slovenian independence, but the debate about hate speech certainly caused the most stir. It is only a leitmotif of the …
In the presentation of standpoints of parliamentary groups, the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) and the New Slovenia party (Nova Slovenija – NSi) announced their opposition to the decision, while the parties of the coalition said that a referendum on the Family Code is not constitutionally permissible. The Constitutional Court has ruled …
With President Aleksander Čeferin, UEFA has ended a long-standing tradition of non-interference in the internal politics of countries. Čeferin has been meddling in Slovenian political affairs since the term of the Janša government and the epidemic, and by publicly supporting the presidential candidate Nataša Pirc Musar, he has finally crossed the Rubicon. We have thus …
Member of the European Parliament Romana Tomc has sent a letter to Vera Jourova, the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Values and Transparency, and Sophie in ‘t Veld, Chair of the Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Groups, which is part of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs …
We have learned from reliable sources that the Golob government is accelerating the work on the project for a special unit for the protection of Robert Golob, and that an anti-hate speech unit is also in the works, which would operate within the police and would monitor political competition. And the person behind these crazy …
“Well, I have heard the exact opposite from the voters – they want someone who does not have any ‘party baggage’ for President,” the presidential candidate Nataša Pirc Musar is trying to convince the public of how her opponent Anže Logar is not a suitable candidate for the position of President of the country because …
In the no-confidence motion against Minister of Foreign Affairs Tanja Fajon, the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) is accusing the Minister of abusing the diplomatic-consular network in favour of one candidate in the presidential elections. We have already reported that the government also failed to consult the President of the Republic before …
We spoke with Dr Milan Zver, MEP, political scientist and one of the most recognisable representatives of the Slovenian Democratic Party, about what is happening in Slovenia, Europe, and the world. Among other things, he emphasised that Dr Pučnik did not deserve a symposium like the one organised by the Museum of Slovenian Independence at …
Toxic levels of corruption and lack of discipline in the military’s top brass, minister of the interior Federico Alberto Gonzalez Franco giving lip service to Russia, Iran, and Brazil, and feckless leadership of Attorney General Sandra Quiñonez are the substance of Paraguay’s sociopolitical reality. Attorney General Sandra Quiñonez Astigarraga and President Mario Abdo Benítez, have been hesitant …
“It is, however, worrying that AKOS, as a state body that is part of the executive branch of government, has taken on the role of prosecutor and judge and ordered the media outlet to withdraw part of a private TV programme. Let’s call it what it is: a typical example of censorship,” wrote Jože Biščak, President …
“This is censorship (prohibition of publishing or confiscation of a publication by the authorities) in the original sense of the word. It is scandalous that the Agency for Communication Networks and Services of the Republic of Slovenia (Agencija za komunikacijska omrežja in storitve Republike Slovenije – AKOS), a state body of the executive branch of …
