Rok Bulc is yet another candidate who is part of the list of the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda) – the newest left-wing party. Bulc is a travel organiser and director of a tourist agency, according to the website of the State Election Commission. Bulc is a journalist by education, and in the past, he also …
The parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee endorsed in a 9:1 vote the government’s initiative to revoke the 2011 agreement with Russia on scientific and cultural centres in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Under the proposal, the Russian Scientific and Cultural Centre in Ljubljana is to be closed. A Foreign Ministry state secretary told the …
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The Labour and Social Court in Ljubljana refused to issue a temporary order on the implementation of the Amendments to the Implementing Act on the Operation of the MMC. The court did not find that the changes were inconsistent with the law or the statute. Igor Pirkovič, the new acting editor of the editorial board …
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Representatives of the opposition and the Gibanje Svoboda party wrote a protest letter, in which they flatly state about the irregularities and pressures that journalists on RTV Slovenia are allegedly experiencing. Director of RTV Slovenia Andrej Grah Whatmough emphasised that the management of RTV Slovenia never put pressure on journalists and editors of RTV Slovenia …
Prime Minister Janez Janša was guest on CNN’s At This Hour live, where he discussed with host Kate Bolduan the situation in Ukraine, the visit of three Prime Ministers to Ukraine, the NATO Summit in Brussels and current foreign policy issues. nitially, they focused on the extraordinary meeting of NATO members, which will take place …
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Boštjan Lesjak will be Slovenia’s interim chargé d’affaires in Kyiv, senior Foreign Ministry official Jernej Müller confirmed several unofficial media reports as he spoke on Radio Slovenija. Lesjak, a lieutenant-colonel, was previously an employee of the Defence Ministry, but has been now employed at the Foreign Ministry. On Sunday, PM Janez Janša said Slovenia will …
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The University of Maribor has enabled Ukrainian students who had to leave their country due to the war to enrol temporarily in its study programmes without tuition under a student exchange scheme. They can also apply for scholarships that will cover their living expenses for the first few months in Slovenia. The university said in …
Refugees from Ukraine can study at University of Maribor Read More »
It sounds almost unbelievable and yet it happens in the middle of Europe: Women from Ukraine fleeing war and misery voluntarily return to the war-torn country because they do not feel safe in the Western European states – above all Germany and Sweden. Muslim migrants and “protection-seeking” Africans, with whom one is crammed into asylum …
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Andriy Voloshyn is an Ukrainian writer, political scientist and geopolitician author of books available in English who lives in Kyiv. Lionel Baland interviewed him for Breizh-Info on the current situation in his country. Breizh-info.com: Andriy Voloshyn, what city are you in and what is the situation there? Andriy Voloshyn: Hello, thank you for your interest. …
Interior Minister Aleš Hojs presented Slovenia’s activities and government measures related to the Ukraine crisis as he met foreign ambassadors in the country in Brdo pri Kranju on Monday. He said that since 10 March, 4,400 persons from Ukraine had requested temporary protection, the Interior Ministry said. By: P.T., STA
The Slovenian government will be able to better implement the EU sanctions against Russia, more specifically the freezing of assets of certain Russian citizens, now that new legislation has empowered it to do so, whereas the old legislation was somewhat “flawed”, Foreign Minister Anže Logar said in Brussels. The EU has so far adopted four …
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Slovenia plans to sent its diplomatic representatives back to Kyiv this week. “We are working to make the EU do the same. Ukraine needs diplomatic support,” Prime Minister Janez Janša announced on Twitter on Sunday evening, noting that the diplomats would return to Kyiv on a voluntary basis. The Foreign Ministry later told the STA …
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