“And it was that national consciousness that helped him brave three totalitarian regimes: fascism, Nazism, and capitalism,” was one of the statements in a report on the late Boris Pahor on the news programme Svet (the World) on the commercial television station Kanal A. The fact that a news media outlet with nationwide coverage can
Slovenia’s registered unemployment rate in the first quarter was at 4.3%, down by 0.2 percentage points from the last quarter of 2021. The survey unemployment rate for April was at 4%, flat with the rate a month ago but down 0.8 points from April 2021, the Statistics Office reported. Based on the labour survey, the
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Slovenia’s annual inflation hit 8.1% in May, the highest rate since 2002, on the back of soaring fuel and food prices, the latest Statistics Office figures show. The monthly rate stood at 2%. Liquid fuels were almost 43% more expensive than a year ago, contributing 1.9 percentage points to the headline rate. Food prices, having
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The coastal town of Izola is ready for the 18th iteration of the Isola Cinema International Film Festival, which will take place from 1 to 5 June. Lovers of art film can look forward to 41 carefully picked feature and 71 short films, which will mostly be screened at three open air and two indoor
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The upper Vipava Valley, SW, had been looking at an exceptional harvest of cherries this year, but the plans of local fruit growers were thwarted by the strong bora wind which virtually swept away the ripened cherries, also tearing down branches and young cherry trees at the weekend. “The damage is immense,” Bogdan Slokar, a
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Three vending machines offering poems by Slovenian, Austrian and Leipzig-based poets will be set up in Leipzig, eastern Germany, on Wednesday. The project is the brainchild of poet and writer Matthias Göritz, currently serving as a professor of creative writing in Louisiana. The project is linked to the Frankfurt Book Fair. In 2023, Slovenia will
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Janez Janša, the outgoing prime minister, urged the EU and the West to focus on military assistance to Ukraine rather than on sanctions as he arrived for the second day of meetings at the EU summit. Sanctions are not the key issue, he said, adding that the EU needed to step up military assistance to
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Nova24TV has obtained a video clip from the European Parliament, showing MEP Ljudmila Novak listing a bunch of nonsense and attacking the government of Janez Janša once again. With this, she joined Blaž Zgaga, Tanja Fajon, Irena Joveva, and others who exported untruths to foreign countries. According to Ljudmila Novak, Robert Golob was created as
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At her hearing before the competent parliamentary committee, the candidate for the position of Minister of Digital Transformation, Emilija Stojmenova Duh, announced, among other things, that the new government would persecute hate speech online. The competent parliamentary committee supported the proposal of Stojmenova Duh for the position of minister, with nine votes in favour and
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“Of course you will be. And that is why we will tax you accordingly,” the Youth Forum, the youth wing of the Social Democrats party, wrote in response to a post from the Christian radio station, Radio Ognjišče: “We Catholics in the Republic of Slovenia expect to be considered equal members of this society.” Will
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Slovenians earned an average EUR 1,306.68 in take-home pay for March, up 1.2% compared with the net earnings a year ago. Net salaries in the public sector in fact fell by 6.2% as those in the private sector rose by as much on average, shows fresh data from the Statistics Office. The reason for lower
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The credit rating agency Fitch Ratings affirmed Slovenia’s credit rating at “A” and announced a stable outlook. The agency in question is one of the three internationally recognised statistical credit rating organisations, appointed in 1975 by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In its report, the credit rating agency Fitch Ratings justified Slovenia’s “A” rating with a