“The representative body of the European Parliament in Slovenia should not allow itself to have such an unbalanced composition at the round table. And this is not the first time something like this has happened. Socialist Katarina Barley is a member of the LIBE Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Group (DRFMG), which …
President Borut Pahor will be honoured with the Grand Award of Jože Plečnik on Friday, the president’s office said in a press release. On the 150th anniversary of the Slovenian architect’s birth, Pahor will become the first statesman to receive the architectural award given out by the Prague Castle Administration. He will host a ceremony …
Unior, a state-owned tool maker and automotive supplier, saw its half-year group net sales revenue rise by 16% year-on-year to EUR 141.6 million as net profit went up by a good quarter to EUR 8.1 million. In June, the group sold its 49% stake in Unior Tepid in Romania, which had a negative impact on …
Marta Kos, the ruling party’s presidential candidate, withdrew her bid for the 23 October election, citing “change of circumstances out of personal reasons”. The Freedom Movement will discuss further steps in the coming days, the party said, adding it would focus on the November local elections. Kos, a former diplomat whom polls suggest does not …
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Excavation of victims of post-war massacres has been ongoing in Jama pod Macesnova Gorica since May, reported Radio Ognjišče, which hosted the President of the Commission of the Government of the Republic of Slovenia for issues of hidden graves, Dr Jože Dežman. He presented the course of work on the largest post-war mortuary of Home …
For many years, Dr Rafael Mihalič was the head of the Department of Power Systems and Devices at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Ljubljana. In the past, he worked in this field both in Slovenia and abroad, and we talked to him about his long-term experiences, delusions about a “carbon-free society”, various possible solutions …
The Belgian prime minister expects the next five to ten winters to be extremely difficult. At the same time, the French government wants to avoid a sudden rise in energy prices, although they believe that price freezes cannot be maintained forever. No expert could guarantee that the country would be able to avoid blackouts in …
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“Putin cannot win this war, and Ukraine must win this war. That is completely clear,” said Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, in her speech at the Bled Strategic Forum. The visitors applauded approvingly, as expected – with two exceptions. Slovenian Minister of Justice Dominika Švarc Pipan and Slovenian Minister of Finance …
While the government of Robert Golob is trying to create the impression that the opposition is using the warnings against illegal migrants to score political points, the footage from the ground shows that the warnings are far from unnecessary. Footage from Subotica, which is located on the border between Serbia and Hungary, shows how large …
This year’s Bled Strategic Forum is titled “The Rule of Power or the Power of Rules?” and it is happening on the 29th and the 30th of August. There, the participants will be looking for answers to questions about the future of the multilateral ordeal and its role in the European Union, the Slovenian Press …
On a recent episode of the news show “24ur Zvečer”, the Minister of Culture, Dr Asta Vrečko, said that recent political developments in the field of culture are an attempt to tarnish the reputation of culture and art and that the cultural sector is not a decadent field, but a field where there is a …
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“Is 2,000 euros a month not enough for the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda)? Pay for it yourselves from the high financial rewards that you got in state-owned companies,” Janša responded to the new controversy of Urška Klakočar Zupančič, the Speaker of the National Assembly, who wants to take the illegal migrants to the seaside. …
