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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Slovenia is among the top ten European countries with the most cars per household, according to a new survey. It ranks ninth. Austria is next, followed by Finland. The study by confused.com analysed 29 European countries on how many registered passenger cars there are per thousand inhabitants, then compared this to the number of households. …
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A survey by the Chamber of Commerce of Slovenia (GZS) sees more than a quarter of the surveyed companies assessing that the raising prices of energy, raw materials and services are threatening their existence. The survey conducted in June among more than 60 companies, 80% of which are industrial companies, sees their biggest challenges in …
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The National Council of Carinthian Slovenians (NSKS) voiced a strong protest against the plan of the University of Klagenfurt to abolish its MA course of Slavic studies. The step has not been agreed in advance with the Slovenian minority in Carinthia, the organisation said. It underlined that the move violated Article 8 of Austrian federal …
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The number of people who are registered as unemployed continues to decline steadily. Data from the Employment Service of Slovenia show that at the end of June, 53,860 persons were registered as unemployed, which is 3.6 percent less than in May, and 24.2 percent less than in June of last year. This also means we …
According to Remix News, Germany’s left-wing government is planning to import thousands of foreign workers, mostly from Turkey, to fill jobs at Germany’s airports, where there is confusion over staff shortages. The situation at German airports is quite tense and chaotic, with a shortage of 5 500 workers. This is partly the result of the …
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