The felling of the more than 100-year-old beech trees in the Reinhardswald with the famous “Sleeping Beauty Castle” Sababurg in northern Hesse has begun. The forest workers were apparently already ready with their saws when on Wednesday the Kassel Regional Council gave the green light for the first 18 wind power plants on an exposed …
With journalist and columnist James Bartholomew we spoke, among other things, about the creation of the Museum of Communist Terror, raising awareness among Western youth about the horrors of communism and the state of mind in the Western world. What made you decide to set up the Museum of Communist Terror? About six years ago, …
Slovenian ski jumper Peter Prevc finished fourth in the men’s normal hill individual event at the Beijing Winter Olympics. He was half a point short to clinch what could have been his third Olympic medal after the two he won at Sochi 2014. Japan’s Ryoyu Kobayashi won the gold medal, Austria’s Manuel Fettner the silver …
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Slovenian ski jumpers Urša Bogataj and Nika Križnar made history at the Winter Olympics in Zhangjiakou on Saturday, as Bogataj has won the gold and Križnar won the bronze medal. It is the first time that more than one Slovenian athlete has made the Olympic podium in the same event. The other ski jumpers representing …
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Slovenia has reiterated its support for the inclusion of nuclear energy in the EU’s taxonomy of sustainable energy sources after the EU Commission unveiled the proposal calling for nuclear and gas energy to be included in the taxonomy. “Slovenia believes nuclear energy will be needed to maintain low-carbon energy production in the long run, not …
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Minister of the Interior Aleš Hojs attended the two-day informal meeting of EU home affairs ministers in Lille, France. The key topics of the meeting were the reform of Schengen and progress in shaping a common EU migration policy. In the context of discussions on the reform of Schengen, the Presidency wished to focus on making …
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Slovenia has taken a serious step forward in the process of the digital transformation of society, which the foreign media have also reported on. The first step was the recent introduction of digital vignettes, and starting next year, the drivers’ licences will also become digital. Croatia, for example, plans to introduce digital drivers’ licences in …
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Although the mainstream media outlets are filled with reports on the united appearance of the so-called Constitutional Arch Coalition (which are actually the left-wing parties of the current opposition) and the party of the new face of Slovenian politics, Golob, it is clear to everyone at first glance that the relations between the aforementioned political …
Members of the DOOR Association (Association for Children, Fatherhood and the Truth) have been drawing attention to the fact that fathers are discriminated against in divorce proceedings. They have also been pointing out that these procedures are too long and too expensive, and that all this is unacceptable because it causes irreparable emotional, developmental, health …
EIB vice president Liljana Pavlova and Finance Minister Andrej Šircelj announced plans for the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Slovenia to intensify cooperation. The EIB, which is involved in many projects in Slovenia, participating in the modernisation of roads and railways and is supporting small and medium-sized companies, would like to see more projects promoting …
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The government issued a regulation to subsidise bilinguality and the exercise of constitutional rights of the Hungarian and Italian minorities in Slovenia in 2022, under which areas populated by the two communities will get almost EUR 2 million this year. The regulation is in line with the municipalities financing act. By: P.T., STA
Interior Minister Aleš Hojs expressed opposition to France’s proposal under which EU countries which do not wish to accept migrants would need to contribute financially. “I will not support this proposal because I think we first need to comprehensively evaluate what solidarity is,” he said in Lille where he attended a session of the EU’s …
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