One of the terms that the newly composed ruling set very often uses is normalisation. Its representatives talked about this a lot already during the election campaign, when they promised to make Slovenia “normal” again after two years of Janša’s “fear government”. This means that the alleged restriction of democracy, the undermining of the rule …
We spoke with a Slovene writer Ivan Sivec, who surpassed all Slovene writers in the number of books in his 50 years of writing. He says that he has set himself the task of exposing to readers the true Slovenian history, which we know too little about. He also confided his thoughts to us about …
Writer Ivan Sivec: I am Slovenian; I draw from Slovene roots and write for Slovenes! Read More »
After a group of prominent intellectuals and politicians, which – unsurprisingly – also included Milan Kučan, called on the current Prime Minister to “form a reasonable position on the war in Ukraine,” thus indirectly calling for “disarmament of Ukraine,” this initiative has been destroyed by the letter of an even larger group of intellectuals with …
The new Speaker of the National Assembly has barely started with her work, but accusations of her being involved in illegal business practices have already surfaced. The parliamentary question of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) MP Jelka Godec reveals a serious suspicion that Urška Klakočar Zupančič is involved in business practices which are explicitly prohibited …
Can you imagine a situation where violent protests against the left-wing government would be organised by the right-wing political pole with its supporters and sympathisers? And at the same time, they would promise the perpetrators amnesty and an end to the unfinished proceedings against them when the right-wing is in power? Such actions would lead …
Thursday’s session of the European Central Bank and the announcement of the first interest rate raising after 11 years has also pushed up the yield on the Slovenian 10-year bond – to 2.92%, a new high after the 2013 and 2014 banking system bailout. The secondary market yield on the Slovenian 10-year bond was hovering …
ECB session drives up yield on Slovenian 10-year bond to nearly 3% Read More »
Close to 6,000 couples got married in Slovenia last year. August was the most popular month for a wedding, data from the Statistics Office shows. Compared to the year before, the number of couples who got married increased by 13% to 5,916 whereas the number of those who got a divorce rose by nearly a …
A total of 209 cases of coronavirus were confirmed in Slovenia over the weekend, a 30% increase over the weekend before. No patient with Covid-19 has died since Friday, according to the Health Ministry. The ministry does not release fatality or hospital figures at the weekend, but data released today shows 21 patients were hospitalised …
The coalition of the Gibanja Svoboda, SD, and the Levica will be radically left and not liberal. The coalition agreement shows that they are introducing a series of involuntary and harmful measures for the state and citizens. Taxes, taxes, taxes, and the destruction of families. Romana Tomc, an MEP, and vice-president of the SDS party …
Taxes, taxes, taxes, and the destruction of families! Read More »
Whether they are public or not is the question now. Information Commissioner Mojca Prelesnik stated that the Government of the Republic of Slovenia has a legal basis for the processing of personal data of civil servants and that this is freely available information of a public nature. On the other hand, the government says that …
The Government will have to provide “cull lists” to the public Read More »
The government of Robert Golob has appointed David Antolovič to the position of Director of the Criminal Police, who has been subject in the past to the control of the General Police Administration due to irregularities in his work. However, that was not the first time Antolovič has found himself under the scrutiny of his …
Even though the majority of Slovenian media are in favour of the left, some people obviously cannot bear the fact that there are also some who dare to show the other side as well. This is definitely true for a stranger who decided to vandalise the car of our media outlet, Nova24TV, which was parked …
