Slovenia has gained two spots in the annual IMD Competitiveness Ranking, placing 38th among a total of 63 countries included. Considering the circumstances, the result is satisfactory, economists taking part in the project have said. They warned, however, that Slovenia failed to reduce its gap toward countries with which it likes to compare itself. The
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“All those who believe that Kučan, Turk, Bučar, Ferfila, Šterbenc, Rizman, Miheljak, Štrajn, Kovačič, Damijan, Slapšak and the Peace Institute are doing the right thing by calling on the government of Robert Golob to pursue a more striking diplomacy, which could eliminate the need for weapons in Ukraine, please sign this!” the long-time representative of
“If my only sin is that I was appointed to this position during the time of the government of Janez Janša, then we are obviously in the period of freedom now,” the lawyer and member of the Supervisory Boards of the Slovenian Press Agency (Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija – STA) and Telekom, Radovan Cerjak, commented on
In response to the promised amnesty of offences and fines imposed on Friday protesters, and the announced withdrawal of damages lawsuits filed against organisers of the anti-government protests, Rezka Grčman, with the support of a group of taxpayers, wrote a public letter of protest. “The taxpayers absolutely do not agree with the interference of ministers
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
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Although economics and finance are not areas that are particularly close to me, at least from a professional point of view, it is still good to understand the basics of state (macro)economy. Also, some concepts that otherwise come from the economic vocabulary. One of these – we call it “liquidation” – was used in the
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On the route of the second track between Divača and Koper, the Mlinarji tunnel, the first of seven tunnels, was broken through today. At the ceremony, the Minister of Infrastructure Bojan Kumer and the President of the Management Board of 2TDK Pavle Hevka pointed out that the light at the end of the tunnel is
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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
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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