“At least politically, she should be correct and impartial. She does not even fulfil this condition,” Slovenian Member of the European Parliament, Dr Milan Zver, recently criticised the Slovenian European Commissioner, after she allowed herself to interfere in Slovenia’s internal politics by saying that she did not want the next government to be led by
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As we have previously reported, the government has found an innovative new way to squeeze even more tax out of our wallets. This time, in parallel with the proposed property tax. Under the latest government proposal, which is part of the proposed amendment to the Spatial Planning Act, municipalities are required to start levying a
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“When commenting on the thinking and actions of Prime Minister Robert Golob, it makes no sense to approach this rationally, because he is driven in politics primarily by his vanity and momentary inspiration,” explains political analyst Sebastjan Jeretič. Prime Minister Robert Golob recently rejected the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) leader’s call
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Every week, we hear a new anecdote about how slow, inefficient, irrational, and often unjust the Slovenian judiciary truly is. But anecdotes and subjective feelings have now also been backed up by numbers. In the recent annual report entitled the EU Justice Scoreboard, Slovenia performed predictably badly. The EU Justice Scoreboard is an annual report
The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, has proven that capitalism works. Argentina’s annual gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the first quarter of 2025 was 5.8 percent, which is higher than China’s. The data was revealed this week by Argentina’s National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC). The report also reveals a 0.8 percent GDP
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“It is okay to be confident, but you have to have a realistic basis for it,” wrote Tomaž Smole, Vice-Mayor of the Municipality of Ivančna Gorica. On Facebook, he pointed out that after 14 years of decline, Kočevje still ranks 187th in the municipality development coefficient, which shows the gap between the public image of
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“There is not a single institution that will participate in the long-term care system that is fully prepared for this. The Ministry has not done its job, municipalities are turning a blind eye to what their tasks are – and to be perfectly honest, the law has not even defined them clearly,” says Irena Tovornik,
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For many years, Slovenian housing policy has been stuck in purely socialist waters, where solutions have been sought only through state intervention – state repression and direct state investment. The paradox is that it is precisely such measures that are causing the basic problem of housing policy, namely the housing shortage. On the one hand,
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Nika Kovač says she fights against the exploitation of workers and against capitalism. But among her (past) donors is also the Obama Foundation, which received a hundred million dollars in 2021 from one of the richest men on Earth – Jeff Bezos. He is a brutal exploiter who makes it virtually impossible for workers to
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A new case of brutal Roma violence occurred in recent days in Mihovica near Šentjernej, in which Andrej Brečko suffered a serious head injury that had to be treated in the Novo mesto emergency room. He attributes the attack to the fact that he had spoken about the Roma problem to a Slovenian media outlet
With the recent unveiling of a commemorative plaque in Osijek, Croatia has taken an important step in preserving the memory of the victims of communist crimes, overtaking Slovenia, where such commemorations are still practically being “swept under the carpet” under the current government. A plaque on the wall of the Neuman Street District Prison commemorates
In May 2025, according to the media outlet N1, a Chinese delegation led by senior Communist Party official Chen Zhou, Vice Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, secretly visited Slovenia. The visit, which took place without public announcements or photographs, raised questions about transparency, especially in the wake of the scandal