In May, Sweden and Finland officially applied to join NATO. The accession of new members to The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation must be confirmed by all 30 existing ones, and up to now, the accession has only been opposed by Turkey, with which Sweden and Finland have finally managed to come to an agreement. Slovenian …
“Today, as a member of the State Election Commission, I submitted a proposal for the dismissal of the Director of the commission, Dušan Vučko. Too many matters remain unexplained,” Drago Zadergal, a member of the State Election Commission, wrote on Twitter. As he explained, he submitted the proposal for a dismissal due to “negligent, improper …
The 29th of June marks the birthday of an outstanding Slovenian and Nobel Prize nominee, Pedro Opeka, also known as Father Opeka, a Catholic priest from Argentina who works as a missionary in Madagascar. He was awarded the Legion of Honour for serving the poor. Pedro Opeka, who was born in 1948 in Buenos Aires …
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A new documentary film on one of the bloodiest clashes of the 1991 ten-day independence war for Slovenia was screened in Slovenj Gradec on Monday. The film revisits the Holmec border crossing affair, in which Slovenian police and soldiers were accused and later cleared of shooting surrendering Yugoslav army personnel. Entitled The Battle for Holmec …
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Slovenia’s annual inflation rate accelerated to 10.4% in June, up 2.3 percentage points from May, driven by rising prices of petroleum products, food and electricity, the Statistics Office said. The monthly rate stood at 2.7%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points on the back of higher prices of electricity, vacation packages and food. The annual …
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Slovenia confirmed 996 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, up by almost 30% on the week before, as hospital numbers rose slightly following more than two weeks of rapid case growth. The 14-day case notification rate stood at 414, up by 25 over yesterday. By: P.T., STA
The fact that no woman was elected to the top of the German association in a thoroughly male-dominated profession like the fire brigade (and for good reasons and physical conditions) led a Green member of the Bundestag to launch a veritable tirade of abuse at men and the fire brigade. “No one needs a fire …
A large-scale demonstration, organized by more than 200 civil society associations, took place in Madrid on Sunday 26 June under the slogan “We are risking our lives” to protest against the new abortion law which will allow abortion from the age of 16 without the consent of the community parents allowed. Under the motto “End the …
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Slovenia recorded a general government deficit of EUR 405 million or 3.1% of GDP in the first quarter, less than half the deficit from the first quarter of last year, the latest Statistics Office figures show. General government revenue rose by 8.3% to EUR 5.65 billion on the back of an 11.7% increase of tax …
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A new day, a new fiasco of Urška Klakočar Zupančič, the Speaker of the National Assembly. This time, she began with the mobbing of the deputies who were not present at the start of the session at the very first moment possible. The leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) parliamentary group, Jelka Godec, pointed …
We recently reported that the electricity trader Gen-I energy company had announced significant price increases for electricity. In a message sent to their customers, the blame for the price increase was placed on the war in Ukraine. Other electricity providers have also raised their prices. However, former Minister of the Economy, Matej Lahovnik, has now …
On Wednesday, Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) submitted signatures for the start of procedures for calling a legislative referendum on the amendments to the Government of the Republic of Slovenia Act, with which the new government of Robert Golob wants to increase the number of ministries. SDS MP Branko Grims did not …
