“Despite the very high total amount of planned aid to the economy, the representatives of the economy and employers clearly warn that the Proposal for the Law on Aid to the Economy to Mitigate the Effects of the Energy Crisis does not solve the basic problem of high offers for electricity leases for 2023, as …
Eva Irgl warned that the government’s economic measures turned out to be inadequate Read More »
Gorazd Pučnik, son of one of the fathers of the Slovenian state, Jože Pučnik, recently received the Order of Extraordinary Merit, the highest state decoration, on his father’s behalf. The decoration had already been awarded in 2006 by the then-President of the Republic, Janez Drnovšek, who awarded it to Pučnik posthumously when Slovenia celebrated 15 …
The web portal Oštro is considered to be one of the most trusted informants and distorters of facts by the US billionaire megacorporations that own the social networks (Facebook, Instagram, Mastodon, and until recently, Twitter). This web portal often twists the facts to get the ideological message it wants to convey (a practice invented on …
Local Slovenian police stations have always been a kind of a time machine, where time seemed to stop in 1975. Pictures of the dictator Tito hang on the walls, and some older police officers in senior positions reminisce nostalgically about the days when they were part of the communist version of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. …
The Bank of Slovenia has lowered its forecast for Slovenia’s economic growth. While in June, it had forecast growth of 5.8 percent this year and 2.4 percent next year, this year’s growth will actually reach 5 percent, falling to 0.8 percent next year. Inflation will remain high and is expected to start moderating in the …
With the resignation of Interior Minister Tatjana Bobnar, the more left-wing media also noticed that the criminal investigators were looking into the privatisation of the Gen-I energy company and Robert Golob’s business operations in the Balkans. And they have been doing this for quite a long time. But now, thanks to the resignation of the …
A journalist of the Demokracija magazine (Democracy) spoke to Romana Tomc, Member of the European Parliament and Vice-President of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), about the events of the past year, both in the domestic and the European arena; on how the European Parliament views the developments in Slovenia; what marked …
No Other Country Is Raising Taxes In These Times, Unlike The Golob Government Read More »
Hungary’s ambassador to the US, Szabolcs Takacs, attended the 110th Annual Gala held by the New York Young Republican Club on 10 December 2022. At the event, he accepted the John Foster Dulles Award for Viktor Orban. In his address delivered after receiving the award named after the one-time Republican US state secretary, he emphasized …
Last year, 360 million Christians were affected by oppression, control and violence, simply because of their faith. 5,898 Christians were killed for their religious beliefs, while 6,175 believers were arrested, convicted or imprisoned without a trial and 3,829 were abducted in the past one year alone.Last year, 360 million Christians were affected by oppression, control …
It is a notorious fact that in Slovenia the left-wing political option has been in power for most of the post-independence period (not to mention the previous decades when the communists had a power monopoly). Even at this moment it controls all branches of government; because it has the parliamentary majority and thus the government, …
Tax expert and former director general of Furs, Ivan Simič, warned in this blog, among other things, that small business customers are forced to unconstitutionally sign contracts, according to which they will pay seven times more expensive electricity. “No one, not even the government, can turn a multitude of small business customers, who are individually small …
Electricity robbery in broad daylight: Is this really happening?! Read More »
On Thursday, the coalition MPs approved amendments to the Tax Procedure Act and the Financial Administration Act. The Financial Administration Act raised a lot of concerns, mainly about the possibility of secret surveillance without a court order. Namely, the law in question introduces the possibility of tracking by authorised persons, which are tax inspectors and …
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