Borut Pahor has bid us farewell as President of the Republic. The first, and perhaps at least for one generation, the last President of the Republic who really tried to be the President of all Slovenians. As he stressed in his latest address at the beginning of the annual report of the President of the
When the comrades not only talk, but embark on reforms, then it is necessary to hold on to the wallets. And when you know that there is no voice of common sense in the coalition, but a socialist consensus, and any differences in the general consensus are only cosmetic, the Levica party will have a
As we have already reported, Prime Minister Robert Golob addressed an almost empty European Parliament on Tuesday and, in his style, in addition to the usual formalities about Ukraine, the green transition and the energy crisis that all European leaders have to mention in their speeches, he also attacked the previous Slovenian government with his
The political underground is currently working to replace Prime Minister Robert Golob. According to our information, the main operative between the old and the young forces is Fanjo Bobinac, and Žiga Debeljak would take over the leadership of the government. Just a few weeks ago, when the left celebrated its triumphs at the presidential elections
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We talked with the Jesuit Brother and Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno about religion and science, the Church and astronomy, and his book “Would you baptise an Extraterrestrial”, published in Slovenian translation in 2020 by Družina publishing house. Can you start by introducing yourself to our readers and telling us more about yourself? I am an
Instead of Prime Minister Robert Golob’s speech to the European Parliament being a statesmanlike one, which could then have been used to promote Slovenia, the Prime Minister chose to focus on his personal story, the story about Slovenia’s internal political affairs, and the people from Slovenia who are “not ours.” Since Golob did not use
The employee of the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia, Boris Vasev, who is employed as part of the MMC web portal, is known for his extremist statements and actions. Namely, he once compared a photograph of the then-Prime Minister Janez Janša with a scythe to a photograph of the Serbian war criminal Vojislav Šešelj as
“To put things plainly… You are f***ed: when you get 50 percent of nutrition strategists out of an aggressive 1 percent of the population,” the political commentator Tomaž Štih responded to the news that more than half of Golob’s Strategic Council for Nutrition is made up of sworn vegans, with no representatives of farmers and
“In the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), we have proposed that all those engaged in economic activity, regardless of which energy products they use, should receive financial aid to mitigate the effects of the energy crisis. The Golob coalition rejected the proposal to the detriment of the economy!” the largest opposition party
As we have already reported, the Ljubljana basin has been quite shaken up in the past few weeks over the C0 Connecting Canal project, which will carry wastewater from the municipalities of Vodice and Medvode to the Central Wastewater Treatment Plant Ljubljana – Zalog. According to many experts, the construction of the canal in the
“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
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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