The new Speaker of the National Assembly has barely started with her work, but accusations of her being involved in illegal business practices have already surfaced. The parliamentary question of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) MP Jelka Godec reveals a serious suspicion that Urška Klakočar Zupančič is involved in business practices which are explicitly prohibited …
Can you imagine a situation where violent protests against the left-wing government would be organised by the right-wing political pole with its supporters and sympathisers? And at the same time, they would promise the perpetrators amnesty and an end to the unfinished proceedings against them when the right-wing is in power? Such actions would lead …
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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