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
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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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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
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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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