After a little more than a year since the house searches related to the purchase of the building at 51 Litijska Street in Ljubljana, the head of the National Bureau of Investigation (NPU), Darko Muženič, has stepped in front of the cameras again. Just over a year ago, Muženič created a media spectacle when he …
“The transfer of the murdered victims from Kočevje to the ossuary in Škofja Loka means that the authorities do not intend to arrange a dignified burial for the victims, but to postpone it indefinitely,” warned Professor Dr Janez Juhant, President of the United at the Linden Tree of Reconciliation Association (Združeni ob Lipi sprave). In …
One year before the regular elections to the National Assembly, the ruling Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) introduced significant changes to the allocation of donations and sponsorships in state-owned companies, increasing the limits for donations threefold. While the Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SDH) claims that these changes are aimed at promoting social responsibility, an analysis by …
The National Bureau of Investigation (NPU) has charged three natural persons and one legal entity for abuse of position or trust in economic activity and one natural person for forgery of documents, the police recently announced. The names are being withheld from the public because this is required by the law on the protection of …
“This elite will not contribute to long-term care from this allowance. This is literally making a mockery of 99.99 percent of pensioners, both current pensioners and those who will become pensioners in 10, 20 years,” MP Andrej Hoivik of the SDS party pointed out when submitting the signatures for the referendum on extraordinary allowances for …
“It started in Italy, continued in Slovenia in 2014, then in Macedonia, Poland and Romania. And now in France. Quo vadis, EU?” said Janez Janša in response to the prosecution of French politician Marine Le Pen. According to the latest information, Le Pen has been sentenced to four years in prison, two of which she …
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The ambitious Starline project promises to revolutionise rail transport across Europe. The planned high-speed rail network will connect 39 European destinations, including Slovenia’s neighbours Croatia, Italy, Austria, Hungary, and even Serbia. But there is one important point missing from this story: Ljubljana – or, as its mayor Zoran Janković says, “the most beautiful city in …
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The fact that the Commission of Inquiry of the National Assembly investigating the Prime Minister’s business dealings is headed by members of his own party is, of course, unique in Europe and the world. The National Assembly’s Commission of Inquiry for determining the alleged financial exhaustion of the company GEN-I, alleged controversial practices related to …
Tuesday’s Trenta trial brought the testimony of two former employees of the now-defunct construction company Eurogradnje. Apparently, the court wanted to find out whether the indictment’s allegations that the company was only an intermediate link in securing a kind of “gift” for the President of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), Janez …
“A child needs a mother and a father, and no government has the right to take away a child’s father,” Aleš Primc was critical of the new amendment, as he is convinced that “the Golob government wants to legislate for the state to steal a child’s right to a father.” According to the Supreme Court …
A year before the elections to the National Assembly, intensive preparations are already underway behind the scenes. The favourite of the transition, Vladimir Prebilič, who is being portrayed in the media as a “breath of fresh air”, is, in fact, just a mask for the old, tried and tested politicians who have been involved in …
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“Every mother is a real mother, given for happiness and joy, true and unique, for all your life,” wrote the famous Slovenian poet Tone Pavček. We were especially aware of the latter on Tuesday, when we celebrated Mother’s Day, which is a day to show our gratitude to the one and only woman in our …
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