The Maribor foundry – Mariborska livarna Maribor (MLM), once a successful company with more than two thousand employees, is in a tragic situation today. After the big words and promises of the Minister of Labour, Luka Mesec, the workers have been left empty-handed, and the insolvency administrator Katarina Benedik has filed a proposal to sell …
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The number of injustices perpetrated by the crooked judiciary is too high to count. It must be made clear that we have had enough of what the judiciary is doing, and not only with the leader of the opposition, Janez Janša, in mind, who is a victim of the political process of Trenta, just like …
Wednesday’s chairing of the Commission of Inquiry in the National Assembly, where the director of Nova24TV, Boris Tomašič, was questioned as a witness, was widely criticised. According to experts, MP Tamara Vonta of the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda), crossed many lines. Political commentator Stane Granda said that the interrogator had gone beyond the bounds of …
When the name Kostak started appearing in some media recently, many people in the Posavje region wondered why the media were making a story out of the fact that a company had stumbled upon buried rubbish in a landfill site that had been abandoned for decades. After all, this is the equivalent of construction workers …
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As we have already reported, the National Assembly’s Commission of Inquiry, which is supposed to investigate suspicions of illegal party funding, questioned the former Editor of the weekly Demokracija (Democracy) and former Director of the Nova obzorja (New Horizons) publishing house, Jože Biščak, on Tuesday, who repeatedly stressed that Demokracija is not a party weekly. …
A creative way of justifying government failures is by blaming other government failures. Because of the delay in adopting the pension reform, Slovenia is not planning to submit its next request for a disbursement from the European Union’s recovery mechanism until mid-2025, according to the Minister of Finance, Klemen Boštjančič. On Tuesday, EU finance ministers …
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The judiciary likes to present itself as independent and free from any outside interests – regardless of trials that had elements of political prosecution, or of public displays of judges with totalitarian symbols at political party meetings. What is more, such judges are also given special awards to confirm their “independent” stance. Something exactly like …
The renovation of the Jesenice railway station was only the most publicly exposed of the Ministry of Infrastructure’s public financial excesses. There is also the renovation of the Nova Gorica railway station, the upgrade of the Ljubljana railway station and the Maribor-Šentilj line. The Ministry of Infrastructure will soon reopen the budget purse (for known …
Two more hearings in the Trenta case are scheduled to happen before the end of the year. In this week’s episode of the show “Hour of Power” (“Ura moči”) on Planet TV, Branko Kastelic, the former director of the company Imos and a defendant in the Trenta case, who is accused of damaging his company …
After the ruling Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) had said as recently as in October that people need not worry about the new network charging system, even they realised in mid-November that this would not be the case. The Prime Minister began to express his indignation and, in the role of a saviour, announced that …
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Slovenian candidate for European Commissioner Marta Kos’s cooperation with the former Yugoslavian Directorate for State Security, also known as UDBA, is reverberating beyond Slovenia’s borders. The media outlet Visegrád 24 wrote: “The far-left Slovenian government plans to appoint Marta Kos, a former member of the Yugoslav communist secret service, as their European Commissioner,” adding the …
In the past, we have already reported that the Slovenian judiciary is at the top of the European Union in terms of human rights violations. By 2021, the European Court of Justice had found violations of at least one key right in 342 judgments. The European Court of Human Rights only rules on human rights …
