The Foreign Ministry summoned Russian Ambassador Timur Eyvazov to express Slovenia’s strongest protest against and shock at the killings of civilians in Bucha and other towns in Ukraine. The ambassador was also notified that Slovenia is reducing the number of staff at the Russian embassy in Ljubljana from 41 to eight, or by 80%. The …
According to the latest public opinion poll, the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), New Slovenia Party (NSi), Let’s Connect Slovenia party (Povežimo Slovenijo), and Our Country party (Naša dežela) would be able to form a new coalition. In total, they would receive 46.4 percent of the votes, while the so-called Constitutional Arch …
Will the Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković return Putin’s recognition award after the latest discoveries of war crimes in Ukraine’s Bucha? Since the beginning of the war, Janković has avoided this question, but with his attitude, he is increasingly making it seem as if he agrees with the Russian dictator. We have not yet received a …
“Dear citizens of Slovenia. The choice between the parties, committed to democratic principles and the values of independence, is varied enough that it should not be difficult for us to decide on a healthy, strong, peaceful and trustworthy future of Slovenia and Europe!” the President of the Assembly for the Republic (Zbor za republiko), Dr …
Branko Grims attended the Conference on the Future of Europe via video link, where he addressed the European Parliament and condemned the recently voted sanctions against Hungary and Poland. In his speech, he stressed that it is a great injustice and a lack of solidarity that the European Union is voting to impose sanctions on …
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Some 7,000 refugees from Ukraine have so far applied for temporary protection in Slovenia, Franc Kangler, a state secretary at the Interior Ministry, told reporters during a session of EU Home Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday. At the session, Ylva Johansson, the European Commissioner for Home Affairs, presented an index showing the pressure of …
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“This period of time, when Karl Erjavec was the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was a period in our external policy that we cannot really be proud of. At that time, Slovenia was moving away from the general direction of our foreign policy, outlined in the parliamentary resolution, which is in many ways also defined by …
The world media writes about the loudest moral voices of Central and Eastern Europe on the continent, which while the West is trying to maintain its united front against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, is sending weapons and humanitarian aid to Ukraine while receiving refugee flows. Although Poland has recently been at the forefront, hosting …
During the epidemic, in response to the coronavirus crisis, the government prepared ten anti-corona packages (PKP) to help much of the population in various forms. Economist Dr Matej Lahovnik emphasised that the PKP aid was the one that saved our economy during and after the epidemic. After the epidemic started subsiding, we faced an energy …
Alojz Kralj, the last surviving member of the underground anti-fascist organisation TIGR, died on Saturday aged 101, said TIGR Primorska, an association promoting anti-Fascist values. Having written down his memoirs, he preserved many stories about the TIGR organisation. Established in 1927, TIGR is considered one of the first anti-fascist resistance movements in Europe. By: P.T., STA
The national media outlet, RTV Slovenia, published the data on the 50 highest gross salaries paid to its employees in December 2021. Despite the fact that RTV Slovenia did not want to share the information on gross salaries with all allowances in the past, including the length-of-service bonus, this time, the data includes all additions …
In the past, we were used to Slovenia being ignored on the international stage, or perhaps mistaken for Slovakia, but today, the situation is completely different. Namely, Prime Minister Janez Janša regularly appears on the front pages of many prominent foreign newspaper, and as an interlocutor on renowned television stations, such as CNN, Sky News, …
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