Slovenian Vanja Černivec has become the first woman general manager in British women’s basketball, as she has been appointed to the post in the London Lions women’s basketball team, the reigning champions of the Women’s British Basketball League. The appointment was confirmed on the website of the club as reported by the sport portals Sportal …
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Uroš Urbanija, the former director of the Government Communication Office, was endorsed by the RTV Slovenija programme council for appointment as TV Slovenija director, the TV arm of the Slovenian public broadcaster. RTV Slovenija director general Andrej Grah Whatmough will decide on his appointment after interviewing him next week. By: P.T., STA
Instead of harmonising the value of the pay grades, the government offered a higher holiday allowance for civil servants up to the 24th pay grade during the negotiations with the public sector unions and wrapped it in a “one-off expensive bonus” in PR and does not want to hear anything about the pay grade adjustment. Prof. …
The American economy is on the brink of collapse. This is what the economists and the Republicans are predicting, and the Federal Reserve (FED) has also recently confirmed the ominous predictions. In fact, the only ones who still believe that the USA can avoid an economic disaster are the Democrats, who want to comfort their …
Slovenia’s Tadej Pogačar won the sixth stage of the Tour de France to claim the yellow jersey of the overall leader in what is the 7th stage win at the world’s most prestigious road cycling race for the 23-year-old defending champion. The two-time Tour de France winner is four seconds ahead of American Neilson Powless …
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The 20th contemporary art festival Art Stays got underway in the medieval town of Ptuj, north-east, featuring a plethora of Slovenian and foreign masters, such as Yoko Ono, as well as up-and-coming artists. Under the title Postproduction, the festival aims to provide a retrospective of the past as well as a vision for the future. …
“They referred to the people. Then came the Freedom coalition, and now they want to silence the people,” Boris Tomašič, the host of the show “Who Is Lying to You” (“Kdo vam laže”), responded to the claims of the legal profession that the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia might block the referendum on …
MEP Romana Tomc reported that the European Parliament is adopting the joint report of the Committees on Employment and Women’s Rights for the future European care strategy. It includes recommendations that will form the basis for the preparation of a European strategy on care. The European Parliament draws attention to the provision of accessible and …
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“This is not a state of emergency; there is no special emphasis on COVID,” the Minister of Health Danijel Bešič Loredan recently pointed out, who also said that we are not in a state of emergency and should therefore return to how things were in 2019 – before COVID hit. He and the representatives of …
In the middle of the harvest season, the Government of Robert Golob has still not managed to explain how it intends to implement the announced measures in the field of food commodities. Namely, the Prime Minister announced at one of his previous press conferences that the state would purchase all of the Slovenian wheat, but …
A total of 1,470 Covid cases were confirmed in 619 PCR and 4,547 rapid antigen tests in Slovenia on Tuesday. No coronavirus patient died, while 32 were hospitalised due to Covid, of which nine were in intensive care units. The seven-day average of cases reached 994, 62 more than on Monday. The 14-day number of …
Gregor Bezenšek, a musician who founded a charity to help children with rare diseases with his wife after they lost their son to a rare incurable disease, announced his bid for the autumn presidential election. He will run as an independent, vowing to go “sky-high” for people’s benefit. He promised to work to overcome divisions …
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