Economy Minister Zdravko Počivalšek said the government could intervene in the electricity market by banning exports and administering prices as a way to tackle the high price of energy. “Slovenia produces 85% of the electricity it needs. But the fact is that we export half of what we produce. The state can intervene here – …
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The government has proposed for the payments into the fund for the decommissioning of the Krško Nuclear Power Plant (NEK) and rad waste disposal to be increased from 4.80 to 12 euro per megawatt hour of power. The payments are made by Gen Energija, the state-owned company that holds Slovenia’s stake in NEK, located in …
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Slovenia’s basketball star Luka Dončić sent toys and other Christmas presents to two hundred children currently at the children’s hospital in Ljubljana, accompanied by a video message and signed photographs. Dončić, of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, donated hundreds of toys, from plush animals for babies to wooden toys for toddlers, as well as doll houses, …
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“The Hungarian state has a duty to prevent serious violations of individuals’ identity, even if such violations come from a ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union or from deficiencies in the EU’s exercise of power,” PM Viktor Orban writes in his latest piece called Samisdat No. 15 published on the prime …
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President Borut Pahor addressed Slovenian troops serving abroad in the annual pre-Christmas videoconference, thanking them for their contribution to Slovenia’s international reputation and to maintaining peace and security worldwide. He was briefed on the state on the ground by representatives of SAF rotations from Latvia, Mali, Iraq, Kosovo and Bosnia-Herzegovina. They reported the situation in …
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Minister of Foreign Affairs Anže Logar met with the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday in Washington, which was the third bilateral meeting at the level of foreign ministers over the last year and a half. The meeting was aimed at continuing the strategic dialogue between the two countries. In his talks with Secretary …
An anonymous source has shared some information with us on what is happening at the District Court in Ljubljana under the leadership of Marjan Pogačnik. The same Pogačnik who made the life of now-former Constitutional Court judge Zvjezdan Radonjić miserable and helped make sure that Radonjić was labelled as personally unfit to perform judicial work. …
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“Slovenia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union has been very successful; it resonates everywhere except in Slovenia. Slovenia is being praised by all Member States, and as such a small country, we have achieved everything we wanted and completed things that were being resolved for a long time, and which the other countries …
Vinko Gorenak, State Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, accused the Social Democrats party (SD) and its President, Tanja Fajon, of lying about the (non)success of Slovenia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union. As proof, Gorenak posted an excerpt from a news show on the commercial …
“There is obvious systemic corruption in favour of classic crime of international proportions present at the Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia. The European Commission will have more work to do with this than with Poland.” This is Prime Minister Janez Janša’s tweet, published in response to the revealing of names of the judges …
“The reach of the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) is 30 percent, and that cannot be increased. On the other hand, this reach can also not be significantly reduced; however, the opposite is true for all the left-wing parties, where the percentage of support changes according to any slightly more important “cough” from Murgle – therefore, …
“Thank you to the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, and congratulations on your successful work.” “This was the main message of European Commissioners Stella Kyriakides, Valdis Dombrocskis, and Adina Văleana regarding Slovenia’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union,” said the Government of the Republic of Slovenia. A message that …
