A Labour Ministry team visited the Ukrainian orphans staying in Slavina near Postojna last week after the local social centre received several anonymous complaints alleging that some Ukrainian teachers were mistreating the children. The ministry decided to suspend two Ukrainian teachers and replace them with Slovenian teachers. “The staff was told that any kind of …
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The opposition New Slovenia (NSi) expressed its opposition to the government’s decision to remove the razor wire from the border with Croatia, where it was erected after the 2015 migration crisis. The party believes the decision has been taken without a security assessment and cannot be justified from the aspect of migrations and security. The …
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Slovenia reported 2,365 cases of coronavirus for Monday, the highest figure in three months, and 29% more than the same day a week ago. One patient with Covid-19 died as hospital figures remained stable, data from the Health Ministry shows. The 14-day case notification rate per 100,000 of the population rose to 749, up by …
Florjan Lipuš, who is considered the most important writer of the Slovenian minority in the Austrian state of Carinthia, received the Grand Golden Badge of Honour of Carinthia on Monday for his contribution to the preservation of the Slovenian language and for major literary work. On presenting him with the honour, Carinthian Governor Peter Kaiser …
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With the former archbishop of Ljubljana, cardinal prof. Dr Franz Rode, we spoke for the needs of the show Beremo on Nova24TV in the House of St. Jožef in Celje. The conversation took place about his interesting and comprehensive book, entitled Vse je dar (Everything is a Gift) with the subtitle Spomini (Memories). He presented us with his …
The artificially generated support that citizens showed for Robert Golob and his government in the pre-election and short post-election period has started to erode drastically. The rising prices that the government of Robert Golob is failing to address, his blatant authoritarian leadership of his own team and the country, the disgraceful moments on the international …
The consumption of natural gas in Slovenia increased by 6% last year over the year before to a record 10,163 GWh since 2010, Energy Agency data shows. The total consumption increased with all gas consumers. While households’s consumption – which accounted for about a third of total consumption – rose by 12%, non-household users consumed …
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The Acting Director of the Government Communication Office, Dragan Barbutovski, threatened a Twitter user that he would report her and that Twitter would block her account. And the reason for it: the user simply disagreed with someone’s interpretation of what homosexuality is, in light of the recent decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic …
The broad alliance of the “left-wing privatisers,” as presidential candidate Nina Krajnik would probably call them, began to crumble less than three months after the parliamentary elections. The rift we are referring to happened between Martina Kos, who wants to present herself to the Slovenian public as a politically neutral candidate, and Milan Kučan, the …
Slovenia’s best climber Janja Garnbret won her third World Cup lead event in a row as she dominated the event in Chamonix, France, on Sunday to affirm her role as the favourite for the coming World Championship. Already the most successful climber of all times, she now has 35 World Cup victories, of which 21 …
Slovenia confirmed 941 new cases of coronavirus over the weekend, an increase of more than 40% over the previous weekend. One patient with Covid-19 died. There are currently 45 patients at regular wards hospitalised with Covid as their primary condition and another eight in intensive care. This compares to 23 and nine, respectively, a week …
On the day of commemoration of the victims of the genocide in Srebrenica, the candidate for the President of the Republic Dr Anže Logar reminded of the victims and horrors of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. We will not and must not forget Srebrenica – at the same time he emphasised that the way …
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