Lithuania, like its Baltic sister nations Latvia and Estonia, is a beautiful country with a very harsh and little-known history during the last century. In May 1940, under the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, the Baltic countries were occupied by the Soviet Union and annexed a month later. As in the rest of the territories occupied by the …
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The National Assembly appointed Rok Svetlič a judge on the Constitutional Court. Svetlič received 46 votes with only 46 MPs picking up their ballots because the centre-left opposition boycotted the vote. The coalition was joined by the SNS, DeSUS and minority MPs in endorsing the candidate. This was the fourth attempt to appoint a replacement …
Slovenia will donate 300,000 shots of the Covid-19 vaccine produced by Moderna to Covax, the global initiative aimed at equitable access to Covid-19 vaccines. Africa was designated as the priority region. The vaccines are part of the common EU contract and slated for delivery this year. The government said the donation will have a positive …
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“I have a hard time imagining that while the number of covid patients is skyrocketing and we are approaching the Bergamo scenario, a normal person would actually call for a mass gathering of people at an illegal protest,” Dr Frace Cukjati commented on Dr Brigita Skela Savič’s calls to Friday’s protest. In a tweet, she …
A prominent member of the Social Democrats party (SD), Dr Brigita Skela Savič, publicly called for people to join the (illegal) protest, which is scheduled for Friday, the 12th of November, despite a temporary ban on gatherings in public areas. Given that the situation in Slovenia is still really bad and we are breaking records …
The ordeal in question lasted for more than a year, and even after all that time, the Government Communication Office and the Slovenian Press Agency, under the leadership of Boris Veselinovič, could not negotiate a new contract. With the new acting director of the agency, Igor Kadunc, the Government Communication Office managed to do that …
Szijjártó criticizes the EU Commission’s absurd position “Building border fortifications is the only efficient way to stop the influx of illegal immigrants.” That was the summary of Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, who received his Latvian counterpart Edgars Rinkevics on Monday. While the situation on Poland’s border with Belarus worsened dramatically on Monday, the EU Commission …
In the show Beremo, retired Archbishop of Ljubljana, theologian and philosopher Anton Stres, spoke about the communist revolution during and after the Second World War, the post-war massacres and efforts for reconciliation and freedom of religion in Slovenia. Among other things, he pointed out that things have not been easing in our country in recent …
The upward trend in Slovenia’s trade in goods continues, as the country exported goods worth EUR 3.5 billion in September, or 16.7% more than in the same month in 2020, while imports, totalling EUR 3.9 billion, were up by 46.7%. Slovenia’s September figures were also higher than those in the same month in the pre-Covid …
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Prime Minister Janez Janša had a video call with his Cambodian counterpart Hun Sen with his office saying the pair discussed bilateral relations between the two countries which they both wish to enhance. The screen-to-screen meeting was held ahead of the Asia-Europe (ASEM) summit, which Cambodia will host later this month. The two officials established …
Slovenia will join at the COP26 conference in Glasgow on Wednesday the statements on international aviation climate ambition, on zero emissions in maritime transport by 2050 and on the promotion of transition to carbonless cars and vans. The decision was announced by the government after a correspondence session. The statement on international aviation climate ambition …
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Chaired by Slovenia’s Andrej Šircelj, the EU finance ministers relaunched the discussion on reforming the fiscal rule, which had been on hold since the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic. The Slovenian presidency said interest had been shown for further talks on how to ensure greater simplicity and transparency of rules and favourable conditions for further …
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