The National Investigation Office (NPU) is conducting house searches at Energetika Ljubljana due to deals from 2019, when the company was run by long-time director Andrej Ribič, a close ally of Prime Minister Robert Golob, who belongs to his inner circle of the electro oligarchy. One person was detained, a Serbian businessman connected to the …
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The Italian Film Week start at the Slovenian Cinematheque, featuring many modern feature and short films and running until 12 June. The programme will kick off with a screening of Ennio, a documentary film about the life and work of film composer Ennio Morricone. Also featured will be Il giovane Corsaro – Pasolini da Bologna …
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Anita Šumer, who has triggered a sourdough bread craze with her first book on the topic, won the prestigious Best of the Best Gourmand World Cookbook 2021 award at the beginning of the month for her latest book Umetnost Krašenja Kruha (The Art of Bread Decoration). She accepted the award, which is considered the Oscar …
A new multiplex cinema will open in Ljubljana. Located in the Supernova shopping mall in the southern borough of Rudnik, it will have seven theatres with a combined 1,357 seats. The multiplex is run by the Austrian company Cineplexx, which is already the largest movie chain in Slovenia with theatres in Kranj, Koper, Novo Mesto, …
The National Assembly unanimously confirmed the terms of five substitute MPs to fill in for cabinet members and appointed in a 57:7 vote Democrat (SDS) Danijel Krivec a third deputy speaker. The opposition stressed Krivec’s political experience and his knowing of the parliamentary rules of procedure. Krivec is serving his sixth term as MP. Before …
Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg was the first head of diplomacy from any of our neighbouring countries to visit Slovenia after the new government took office. And if one would expect that the reports about the meeting would mainly be positive – as this is the beginning of new conduct of diplomacy, after all – …
MP from the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS), Žan Mahnič, addressed a written parliamentary question to the new government regarding the purchase of the 8×8 boxer armoured fighting vehicles. The planned purchase already caused quite a stir among the left-wing parties during the previous government’s term, as the leftists strongly opposed the purchase. The leader of …
“This decision reminds us of the dark times in our history, when people were first “branded” because of such lists, and then later, from one day to the next, they were negatively stigmatised. After that, they literally put stamps on them, and in the end, they burned them,” Zvone Černač, an MP from the Slovenian …
The Slovenian business diaspora now has a digital hub, sloglobal.net, at its disposal. The platform will serve as a one-stop shop for all the information needed for successful business and networking for Slovenians on a global scale, the Slovenian Global Business Network said. “People in the business world don’t even have time for that, so they …
Joe Valencic, a well known promoter of Slovenian and polka events in the US, has become the sixth American of Slovenian descent to be inducted to the Cleveland International Hall of Fame. Valencic, a founder and past president of the Polka Hall of Fame in Cleveland who is known in Slovenia as the voice of …
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The Fiscal Council criticised the coalition agreement as being too vague, warning against a possible increase in expenditure that could outstrip that of revenue. The advisory body believes the document, which contains a set of largely broadly defined measures that go beyond the four-year term, does not provide a sufficient basis for fiscal planning, due …
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Investigators of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) conducted house searches at seven locations in Ljubljana area and detained one person on abuse of office charges. Web portals Siol and Necenzurirano report the investigation targetted the city-owned heating utility Energetika Ljubljana. The suspects allegedly illegally gained EUR 3.5 million based on a EUR 118 million …
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