“Someone manufactured you,” is one of the most important lines said in the third season of Twin Peaks, the legendary and controversial series created by the recently-deceased director David Lynch. This phrase – said by the now-deceased one-armed actor Al Strobel to one of Agent Cooper’s doubles, portrayed by Kyle MacLachlan – could also refer …
The Lost Children of Slovenia association (Izgubljeni otroci Slovenije), based in Novo mesto and led by Simona Š. Kalanj, continues their efforts to uncover the story of the stolen children. They publish many stories of mothers on their website (available in Slovenian here), and a special commission of inquiry has been set up in the …
Prime Minister Robert Golob has moved the headquarters of his company Star Solar from Nova Gorica to a small studio apartment in the centre of Ljubljana at 22 Trubarjeva Street, owned by Lidija Nagode Aleksić, from whom you can also rent the said studio apartment at this address on Booking.com. It was not clear where …
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The ruling Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) has announced a boycott of the upcoming referendum on privileges for first-class cultural workers. Nevertheless, it is begging municipalities to provide free advertising space. Asta Vrečko, the Minister of Culture and the leader of the Left party (Levica), and Robert Golob, the leader of the Freedom Movement party …
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“This is certainly a call against democracy,” said Supreme Court Judge Jan Zobec, who pointed out that the Golob government’s call for a boycott of the upcoming referendum was “contrary to the spirit of constitutionality and democracy,” and that such actions should prompt the people to do the opposite and to stop electing parties with …
The Constitutional Court has ruled that the Municipality of Ljubljana (MOL) violated the constitutional right to private property by encroaching on the private land of farmers and landowners in the areas of Ježica and Stožice. It confirmed what the affected owners had been pointing out for two years – that this set a dangerous precedent, …
Over the last three years, the European Union has allocated more than 7.4 billion euros to non-governmental organisations (NGOs). But a report by the European Court of Auditors reveals abuses in the EU’s NGO funding system: data on how the money has been spent is scarce, sometimes wrong; controls are ineffective, and funds are concentrated …
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The main hearing in the Trenta case continued on Tuesday with the reading of documentary evidence, and closing arguments are expected to follow next week. The defence also proposed to question the current owner of the property in Trenta, Rok Rotovnik, who bought the land in 2018 from the company Nepremičnine (Real Estate), which had …
The only future pensioners who can look forward to upcoming change are the system’s chosen few, who will be richly rewarded by the Golob government with exceptional pensions. Member of the European Parliament Romana Tomc has declared this reform to be the biggest scam since Rop’s pension reform. Robert Golob‘s government has presented a pension …
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After a little more than a year since the house searches related to the purchase of the building at 51 Litijska Street in Ljubljana, the head of the National Bureau of Investigation (NPU), Darko Muženič, has stepped in front of the cameras again. Just over a year ago, Muženič created a media spectacle when he …
“The transfer of the murdered victims from Kočevje to the ossuary in Škofja Loka means that the authorities do not intend to arrange a dignified burial for the victims, but to postpone it indefinitely,” warned Professor Dr Janez Juhant, President of the United at the Linden Tree of Reconciliation Association (Združeni ob Lipi sprave). In …
One year before the regular elections to the National Assembly, the ruling Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) introduced significant changes to the allocation of donations and sponsorships in state-owned companies, increasing the limits for donations threefold. While the Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SDH) claims that these changes are aimed at promoting social responsibility, an analysis by …
