For many years, the current “new face” of Slovenian politics, Robert Golob, built his career in the field of selling electricity. Among other things, he also expanded the sale of electricity to his family circle, as his wife is the owner and director of the company Star Solar, which deals with the production of electricity. …
Due to the recent dramatic rise in the number of migrants arriving in the country, reception centres are filled to capacity, despite the fact that nearly 30,000 places are available to asylum seekers. The mayor of the capital intends to accommodate migrants overnight in an old hospital building. The state secretary for asylum and migration …
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The Slovenian capital will have no flight connection to Brussels between 10 January and 28 February as Brussels Airlines is suspending flights on this route at the end of Slovenia’s six-month EU presidency. Wizz Air will suspend the Ljubljana-Brussels connection between 7 January and 11 March, according to web portal Ex-yuaviation. Brussels Airlines, which returned …
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President Borut Pahor announced he would not attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Beijing on 4 February due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Pahor received Chinese Ambassador to Ljubljana Wang Shunqin to hand him a letter informing Chinese President Xi Jinping of his decision. In the letter he expresses the hope that …
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Slovenian software company Better has signed a contract with five London hospital districts that are part of the OneLondon health data-sharing system to use Better’s digital health platform. The three-year contract is worth GBP 3.1 million or about EUR 3.7 million and comes with the possibility of a two-year extension. “Our platform will play a …
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Police deployed to evacuate a migrant camp in the north of the country on 30 December were pelted with stones by migrants, who injured 16 officers with some requiring hospital care. Eventually, the camp was vacated three days later. One immigrant was taken into custody. Eyewitnesses described the migrant camp in Calais as a war-stricken …
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The trio Necenzurirano Primož Cirman, Vesna Vuković and Tomaž Modic, who considers themselves independent journalists, wants to show, how the entire state apparatus and all possible institutions are supposedly dealing with it since the government of Janez Janša came to power, meanwhile the trio tries its best to reveal the “truth”. However, soon after the …
According to the latest data from the world media The Economist, Slovenia was second among the 23 randomly selected OECD countries in terms of dealing with the economic crisis resulting from the global pandemic. The only country that did better than us is Denmark, which undoubtedly confirms the success of our government’s measures in tackling …
Some time ago, we already wrote about how the President of the Ljubljana District Court, Marjan Pogačnik, went after the now-former District Court judge Zvjezdan Radonjić, and then we pointed out a few more cases of Pogačnik’s controversial behaviour. Among other things, we also reported on the fact that on the 4th of March, the …
“Slovenia is wasting time with the new faces because of the acclimatisation that has to happen every time, the lack of experience, and their weak left-wing politics (which is the result of this staff turnover). In these two years, the worst moments have shown us that better economic results can be achieved through operational policy. …
At today’s press conference, Minister of Health Janez Poklukar answered questions related to the current state of the covid-19 epidemic in Slovenia. “The situation is serious. We have all kinds of measures on the table. This week we will definitely shake everything from A to Z and look for the best solutions for healthcare and society. …
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The Republic of Slovenia, rated A3 / AA- / A (all stable), has mandated Barclays, BNP Paribas, Commerzbank, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs Bank Europe SE and J.P. Morgan to lead manage a EUR dual-tranche transaction consisting of a new 4-year benchmark due 2026 and 40-year benchmark due 2062. The transaction will be Regulation S in …
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