If the (unofficial) information that a special group for the prosecution of “hate speech” is being formed within the police is true, this should be a signal for alarm. With such an undefined and elusive term as “hate speech”, which everyone interprets differently, there is a very real danger that the current government would use …
“My thesis is that this was arranged by one or both sides. This is not only a slip, it is a huge slip of both protocols, and a huge provocation and failure in terms of international law,” international lawyer Dr Miha Pogačnik commented on the display of the rainbow flag instead of a Slovenian one …
Anže Logar is the best candidate for President of the Republic since our very first free elections onward. All domestic intellectuals are aware of this fact, as well as foreign politicians from the so-called “nuclear countries” who worked with him successfully when he was still Slovenia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. The latest to express support …
The government of Robert Golob has sent a legislative proposal to the National Assembly on urgent measures to increase pensioners’ incomes and limit the rise in nursing home fees in the area of social security. As Slovenian Democratic Party MP Zvone Černač said when presenting his position, the bill will result in the recipients of …
On Friday, the radical left-wing group called the Protest Assembly (Protestna skupščina), under the leadership of Jaša Jenull, staged several different acts of public lynching and incitement to hate speech in the Republic Square, which should be prosecuted under the rule of law. What will be the next phase of extremists if such actions and …
“This motion of no confidence is partly linked to the interpellation of the Minister of the Interior, the discussion about which will be held on Monday – because the content of both motions of no confidence is exactly the same in the point of accusation of abuse of the electoral legislation,” explained Eva Irgl, an …
“We stop being hostage to these foreign and private non-governmental organisations that organise the routes, the traffic, the transport and the migratory policies,” the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, recently said. He has been dealing with the issue of illegal migration since his days as the Minister of the Interior, and he also announced …
Presidential candidates Anže Logar and Nataša Pirc Musar faced off for probably the last time before Sunday’s elections. They talked about many topics, from international politics to the work of their predecessors, the museum of Slovenian independence, but the debate about hate speech certainly caused the most stir. It is only a leitmotif of the …
In the presentation of standpoints of parliamentary groups, the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) and the New Slovenia party (Nova Slovenija – NSi) announced their opposition to the decision, while the parties of the coalition said that a referendum on the Family Code is not constitutionally permissible. The Constitutional Court has ruled …
With President Aleksander Čeferin, UEFA has ended a long-standing tradition of non-interference in the internal politics of countries. Čeferin has been meddling in Slovenian political affairs since the term of the Janša government and the epidemic, and by publicly supporting the presidential candidate Nataša Pirc Musar, he has finally crossed the Rubicon. We have thus …
Member of the European Parliament Romana Tomc has sent a letter to Vera Jourova, the Vice-President of the European Commission responsible for Values and Transparency, and Sophie in ‘t Veld, Chair of the Democracy, Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights Monitoring Groups, which is part of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs …
We have learned from reliable sources that the Golob government is accelerating the work on the project for a special unit for the protection of Robert Golob, and that an anti-hate speech unit is also in the works, which would operate within the police and would monitor political competition. And the person behind these crazy …
