The latest Covid-19 statistics show the number of cases steadily rising, as the number of new infections registered over the weekend increased by almost 40% on a weekly basis to 641, while overall hospitalisations have declined. There is a higher number of patients in intensive care, though, and three persons with Covid-19 have died since …
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the National Assembly via video link on Friday at 10am. Zelensky was invited to do so by Speaker Urška Klakočar Zupančič, who was authorised to invite him by the parliamentary foreign policy and EU affairs committees behind closed doors two weeks ago upon the proposal of the opposition Democrats …
André Ventura is the leader of the Portuguese nationalist party Chega (That’s enough), which has 12 MPs. He was a candidate in the Portuguese presidential election of 2021 and obtained almost 12% of the vote. Lionel Baland met him for Breizh-info. Breizh-info: Your party has made an electoral breakthrough in Portugal when it did not …
Interview with Sergio Velasco, political scientist and creator of the “Political Philosophy” project, on Hungary and Poland, and the alternative model they represent in the European Union. Why are you interested in Hungary and Poland? It all stems from my first trip to Hungary when I was studying political science. I did a paper on …
The economic mood in the country is deteriorating, both on a monthly and annual basis in June. Confidence is lower in all economic sectors. In June, as shown by the data of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, the indicator of confidence in manufacturing activities had the greatest influence on the deterioration of …
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“The celebration before the Statehood Day this time without fences and open to everyone,” we could read on the website 24ur.com on the Friday evening before the Statehood Day. Of course, this emphasis was far from the truth. On Friday afternoon, I tried to cross Congress Square in Ljubljana with my family, but I could not, …
In Slovenia, a false truth is being created that there is no escape from the RTV contribution. Moreover – if we listen to the members of the coalition, we get the feeling that the public information system will collapse in an instant if the taxpayers of Kolodvor do not throw 100 million euros per year …
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The title of Jože Možina’s book (The Slovenian Separation) could not be better and more realistically portray not only wartime Slovenia, but also the decades after it. What started with the revolution is still going on and refuses to end in any way: to have a divided nation in order to rule more easily. And …
Geert Wilders is a member of the Dutch Parliament and the leader of the PVV, the Party for Freedom, which is the third political party in the Netherlands. He has been living under police protection for 18 years already, under the threat of the Islamists. Lionel Baland met him for Breizh-info. Breizh-info.com: What do you …
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Interview with Adam Starski, Three Seas Initiative specialist and Poland Daily journalist. Starski was present at the latest summit of the Initiative, held in Riga on 20-21 June. What is the Three Seas Initiative? The Three Seas Initiative is a presidential forum that was established in Dubrovnik in 2016 and has been meeting annually ever …
Experts say that the behaviour of the Speaker of the National Assembly, Urška Klakočar Zupančič, is similarly “immature” as her behaviour at national celebrations. For example, she mistakenly issued a reprimand for insulting her when MP Branko Grims warned her about mentioning the wrong holiday. Despite the fact that it was her who called Janez …
After about a month of Golob’s debacles, the media is still talking almost exclusively about the Janša government. But since this topic has been almost fully exhausted by now, their approaches to it are becoming more and more bizarre. The latest spin, which even the national media outlet, RTV Slovenia, tried to sell on its …
