The government of Robert Golob has formally been active for less than a week, and it has already got caught up in a corruption scandal par excellence, as the new Minister of Health, Danijel Bešič Loredan, has been pressuring the Director of the National Institute of Public Health, Milan Krek, to resign – apparently, at …
“If we will not be successful, we will have no choice but to come to Ljubljana with our tractors,” warned Anton Medved, the President of the Slovenian Farmers’ Union, who hopes that the new government will also listen to the farmers while setting up the working group to prepare measures to tackle the high cost …
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Interview with Attila Demko, Hungarian security policy expert, writer, and former diplomat, currently directs the Center for Geopolitics at the Matthias Corvinus Collegium. According to the Western media Ukraine is winning the war, according to the Russian media it is the opposite. What do you think is really going on in this war? I think …
A new government led by Robert Golob is officially came to power. However, Marta Kos, who was initially mentioned as a possible Minister of Foreign Affairs, is not among its members, nor did she run for parliament. The reason probably lies in the fact that the “pigeon house” is “saving” Marta Kos for the autumn …
Caritas Slovenia has so far raised more than EUR 3 million in aid for Ukraine in what is the biggest humanitarian campaign dedicated to a foreign country in Slovenia’s history. The organisation, which has so far sent 20 shipments totalling 283 tonnes of aid to the war-stricken country, said the need for humanitarian assistance in …
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Australia’s new government was sworn in Canberra with a record number of women in ministerial roles, including Tanya Plibersek as minister for the environment and water. Plibersek, 52, was born in Sydney to Slovenian immigrant parents. Before becoming member of the Anthony Albanese government, Plibersek, 52, served as the he shadow minister for education. She …
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Slovenia’s leading theatre, SNG Drama Ljubljana, announced the opening of 13 new productions in the season starting in the autumn. The first to premiere on the main stage will be Prometheus ’22, an international co-production based on Ayshil’s Prometheus Bound and directed by Romanian Gabor Tompa. In a return to a post-Covid normality productions will …
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The great Slovenian writer Boris Pahor died at the age of 109 at his home in Trieste. All his life he warned of the dangers of totalitarian regimes, of which he was a victim. His most famous work is the Necropolis, in which he described the camp experience and with which he became famous throughout …
An exhibition of works by Slovenian artist Eva Petrič opened at New York’s gallery Mizuma & Kips on Wednesday, with the main exhibit being a miniature Earthling Tattoo Seal, actually its copy since the original is currently on show at the International Space Station. Petrič contributed two items – Earthling Tattoo Seal in acrylic glass, …
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After the first two cases of monkeypox were confirmed in Slovenia about a week ago, the National Institute of Public Health said three infections had been confirmed so far. The first case was confirmed on 24 May in a man who returned from the Canary Islands. The patient developed symptoms after arriving in Slovenia, but …
The European Commission has approved Slovenia’s EUR 8 million scheme to encourage freight transport to shift from road to rail and to remove technical barriers to interoperability. The money will come from the Recovery and Resilience Facility. In explaining its decision, the Commission said the measure is to benefit both the environment and mobility. “The …
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A commemoration was held on Wednesday evening at the National Hall in Trieste to pay tribute to late Slovenian author Boris Pahor, who died aged 108 in Trieste on Monday. Slovenian President Borut Pahor remembered him as a “stubborn and strong-willed person with a clearly developed moral compass, a man who embodied the resistance against …
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