Tomaž Vesel has now officially become a director of Martin Odlazek’s “Dolenjski list” media outlet. On the 1st of July, Vesel replaced the now-former director, Gregor Repič, as head of the newspaper. Vesel is known to the Slovenian public primarily for the fact that in addition to the salary he received as the President of …
The people elect their representatives so that the latter can represent the former’s interests. But obviously, this is something that two deputies from Golob’s Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) do not understand, as they have not yet managed to utter a single word at the sessions of the National Assembly. Apparently, the main thing for …
Interview with Witold Dobrowolski, photojournalist, winner of the Grand Press Photo 2020, who has covered the 2014 war in Ukraine, the Yellow Vests protests in Paris, the revolution in Beirut and the demonstrations in Hong Kong. During the protests against the Lukashenko regime in August 2020, he was abducted and tortured by Belarusian police. Witold …
Gas distributor Geoplin confirmed that it will be vying for capacities of the liquefied natural gas terminal in Rovigo, near Venice. The news comes over a month after it was reported that the company had not been awarded a contract for spare capacity at the LNG terminal on the Croatian island of Krk. The capacities …
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“Crazy. Sick. Mad. Vile. Insane. Idiotic. And above all – a crime against children and families, and the laws of nature and God.” That was the response of Aleš Primc, head of the “It’s About the Children” coalition, to the decision of the Constitutional Court, which was announced on Friday. The said decision overturned the …
Prime Minister Robert Golob and Minister of Agriculture Irena Šinko announced at press conference that the state will buy this year’s entire wheat crop, causing real confusion. The government does not yet have a buyout strategy, and the price is not even known. The Zadružna zveza Slovenije already announced on Monday that the harvest will …
The newly appointed national task force to coordinate hospital admissions and bed capacities for Covid-19 patients sent instructions to healthcare providers, which say hospitals are obliged to secure up to 10% of beds for such patients. Depending on the magnitude of the epidemic, the percentage of beds reserved for Covid-19 patients can be gradually increased …
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Drug maker Krka posted sales of EUR 857.4 million in the first half of the year, an increase of 6% on the year before and a new six-month record, according to preliminary estimates. Net profit was up by a third to EUR 236.2 million as operating profit (EBIT) fell nearly as much to EUR 139.2 …
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The Fiscal Council finds that the state of public finances is steadily improving due to fast income growth at a time when the economy is quickly recovering and Covid stimulus measures are ending. The rest of public spending is visibly increasing though. General government deficit in the first quarter reached 3.1% of GDP, which is …
We recently saw once again what media freedom looks like to Robert Golob and the rest of the members of the current government. But this time, the focus was not on the Prime Minister but on his Minister of Health, Danijel Bešič Loredan, who interrupted a journalist at a press conference in the middle of …
Milan Krek, the now-former director of the National Institute of Public Health, who led the latter through the majority of the coronavirus pandemic, described in his column for the web portal Portalplus the shocking story of his fight with the windmills, when politics, the layman, decided to remove him from his position, simply because he …
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New Slovenia (NSi) called on the government to draft an emergency law to fight the looming increases in energy and food prices, fight inflation and help businesses. The opposition party is also critical of the government for purportedly being unaware of the scale of the crisis that is threatening in the autumn. The NSi urged …
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