Love In Plane Sight, a short film by Slovenian arts student Matej Rimanič, has won one of the two main prizes of the Tik Tok competition organised at the Cannes Film Festival for the first time this year. The short comedy by Rimanič, a third year student at the University of Nova Gorica School of …
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British Airways, the UK’s flag carrier, is resuming flights from Ljubljana Airport to London Heathrow today, with the flights having an earlier start compared to last season and being more frequent. British Airways will operate five flights a week to London Heathrow, one of the world’s biggest airline hubs, with afternoon departures every Tuesday and …
A commemoration of the first victims of the YPA aggression in 1991 took place in Maribor last week. First, a wreath of glory was laid at the memorial on the front of the former barracks on Ljubljanska street, and then a wreath was laid at the memorial on the site of the former Vičava Ptuj …
Lately, there has been speculation about what all the so-called right should change to be more successful in elections, more and more. Which is right in its own way. However, most commentators are too quick to satisfy with superficial assessments, e.g., regarding leaders and underestimating the so-called parallel mechanism of the deep state. It is …
The month of June is approaching, when we especially remember the ground-breaking events from the time of Slovenian independence and the defence of our country. A few years ago, a lie began to spread on social networks that Janez Janša, as Minister of Defence during the war for Slovenia, “hid in the basement of Cankar Hall”, …
“We fear that at the end of the experiment, what will happen is that both the patient and the healthcare system will die,” said the leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party parliamentary group, Jelka Godec. In addition, she also reminded everyone of Golob’s Romanian bank account, for which the latter claims it was created after someone …
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“These are new times: at the beginning of Golob’s term as Prime Minister, Lenart Žavbi, an MP from his party, the Freedom Movement, congratulated the people on the Day of Youth – the birthday of Josip Broz, the Yugoslavian dictator,” wrote the editor-in-chief of Siol, Peter Jančič. “A clear message to the core Europe,” Janez …
“They cannot recall me because I have a contract until the 31st of May, which is when it expires and when I will also return to Slovenia. I have a fixed-term contract for two months; they cannot recall me, my contract will simply expire, and that will be all,” said Boštjan Lesjak, the current Charge …
“What some civil society organisations are allowed to do is also what the Church is allowed to do. They will slowly have to get used to the fact that if they are calling themselves “freedom,” “a democratic society,” and so on, they will have to start following the standards of a democratic society, even in …
The outlook for employment in the second half of the year is positive, as employers have forecast a 3.2% increase in the number of employees, the highest growth since 2014, and plan around 43,000 jobs. On the other hand, discrepancies in the labour market are increasing and employers are finding it difficult to find staff. …
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The police dealt with the fewest criminal offences in the last ten years in 2021, 44,260, which compares to the ten-year average of 67,490. At the same time, the highest clearance rate in the last decade was recorded at 55%, significantly above the ten-year average of 49%, shows the 2021 report on police work. They …
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The organisations and individuals that have recently expressed their support for the strike of the coordinated journalists’ unions of the national media outlet, RTV Slovenia, were the Trade Union of Slovenian Police Officers, the President of the Confederation of Public Administration Trade Unions, Branimir Štrukelj, and some others – and on Wednesday, the Union of …
