Our editorial office has received a letter from chess players who, upon learning the news that Milan Brglez had resigned as President of the Slovenian Chess Federation in order to run for the position of President of the Republic of Slovenia, have made an analysis of his presidency of the Chess Federation. “If Slovenians elect …
“Slovenia continued to improve its absorption of the EU funds last year and was already four percentage points above the EU average,” Peter Žerjavič, the Delo newspaper’s correspondent from Brussels, recently reported. We were better than Austria, Germany and the Netherlands, commented former Prime Minister Janez Janša. It is undeniable that the former government of …
In addition to the now-disgraced head of the Fotopub gallery, there is another prominent Fotopub artist on the Slovenian art scene – Olja Grbuić, who made a name for herself with an art installation – an exhibition of naked bodies in the Fotopub window. She is also known for simulating the sexual abuse of a …
On Wednesday on Radio-Television Slovenia, all seven candidates for the position of the President of the Republic of Slovenia faced each other in a debate. They discussed wealth, their attitudes to taxes, ideological differences, values and scandals. The “star” of the debate was certainly Milan Brglez, who got caught up in his own explanations, stuttered, …
Even though in the case of Ukraine, it is more than clear who is the aggressor and who is the victim, we still have some who take the side of those who commit war crimes on Ukrainian territory without any guilty conscience. Civilians are more than clearly the victims of Russian attacks, which is completely …
After the news broke that former State Secretary at the Ministry of Infrastructure, Blaž Košorok, will be leaving his post as director of the “Gen energija” energy company, many people are now wondering who will be the new head of the state-owned “Holding Slovenske elektrarne – HSE” (Slovenian Power Plant Holding), the largest Slovenian electricity …
“The Chairwoman took a completely arbitrary decision to invite two ministers of the Slovenian government to the session. The fact is that the government is advocating changes to the Radio-Television Slovenia law that were made according to its own criteria, so the two ministers that have been invited will, in all likelihood, advocate changes to …
“We, the presidents of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, who visited Kyiv during the war and saw with our own eyes the effects of Russian aggression, in the face of serious violations of international law by the Russian Federation, cannot remain silent,” begins the statement signed by the presidents of Poland, Romania, the Czech …
A letter has been sent from the National Assembly’s main office to all municipal councils and mayors, requesting the delivery of documentation related to the parliamentary inquiry, with which they want to silence the media outlets that have been critical of the current authorities. Namely, the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry is supposed to investigate whether …
The two left-wing “spitzenkandidates” are apparently so nervous next to the calm and cohesive Anže Logar that they have started going after each other. Nataša Pirc Musar and Milan Brglez got into a fight during the commercial break of the notoriously leftist-friendly 24ur news programme on POP TV. Nataša Pirc Musar, the notorious lawyer of …
On Tuesday, Aleš Primc, one of Slovenia’s best-known civil society activists, said that they have managed to collect more than 30,000 signatures for a referendum for the protection of children and families. In just five days, they have thus achieved their first goal. “This is 12 times more signatures than the number required by law. …
Do you still remember the most famous migrant in the country, whom Slovenia should have deported to neighbouring Croatia, but who was instead protected by MPs from the Social Democrats party (Socialni demokrati – SD), the Modern Centre Party (Stranka modernega centra – SMC) and the Left party (Levica)? Ahmad Shamieh, who was also known …
