At the administrative session, the Constitutional Court elected Matej Accetto the next president of the Constitutional Court. He will take office on December 19th, the Constitutional Court said. At a time when criticisms of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Slovenia are more severe and serious than ever – the institution has found itself …
Alenka Bratušek spent a billion euros by expropriating more than 100,000 holders of subordinated bonds in Slovenian state-owned banks during her tenure. She also admitted that she had deliberately violated human rights by depriving citizens of their savings when the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) recently ruled in this regard. Furthermore, Bratušek rescued tycoons …
There’s nothing new under the sun: illegal migrants have been filmed using children to persuade border guards to allow them into Poland. They blew smoke straight into a little boy’s eyes to make him cry and used other children as human shields during their border crossing attempt. An eerily familiar scenario has already played out …
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A number of new Covid restrictions came into effect on Monday to help contain the unrelenting outbreak of infections. Under decisions taken by the government on Friday, gatherings are banned and the Covid pass mandate now applies from the age of 12. Cloth masks are no longer deemed suitable as sporting and cultural events audiences …
Slovenia recorded 1,282 new coronavirus cases on Sunday to push the rolling 7-day average and the 14-day incidence per 100,000 residents higher still, to 2,862 and 1,735, respectively. Over 43% of the PCR tests came back positive, and another 13 people died, bringing the national death toll to 5,162. Hospitalisations totalled 843 on Monday morning, …
An agreement on the production of Slovenia’s new biometric identity cards was signed on Monday. The new IDs, expected to start being issued in March 2022, will cost 29 euro and contain multiple identity markers and security features. The agreement was signed by Roman Žnidarič, the director of the Cetis company, that will produce the …
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PM Janez Janša met on Sunday Milorad Dodik, the Serbian member of the Bosnia-Herzegovina presidency, to discuss the political situation in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the region. Janša described the meeting on Twitter as a substantive exchange about the situation in the country. “The future lies in full sovereignty of Bosnia-Herzegovina and EU membership,” Janša said, while …
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On Sunday, the 7th of November 2021, Peter Jančič, editor-in-chief of the Siol web portal, published a column entitled “Kučan’s Long March” (“Kučanov dolgi pohod” in Slovenian), in which he discussed, among other things, the way the Constitutional Court rules on different matters. According to Jančič, their way of operating is how it is due …
“On the anniversary of the death of the national hero Commander Stane, a ceremony was held in front of his birth house, in memory of the heroism during the National Liberation War. We should be grateful to all those who fought for the Slovenian land and nation. They fought and won to get Slovenia back, …
“Because the sadistic anger of the leftists towards JJ (Janez Janša) is greater – and has a veto – in relation to rational decisions for protecting one’s own, and the nation’s health. This is a national political pathology that has a leftist pedigree,” psychoanalyst Roman Vodeb commented on the data that Slovenia has become first …
The Director of the Government Communication Office (UKOM) Uroš Urbanija and the Acting Director of the Slovenian Press Agency (STA) Igor Kadunc signed a public service contract for the STA this year. As the Director of the Government Communication Office Uroš Urbanija said in a press statement, the contract is based on the provisions of …
As the number of infections with covid-19 increases, there is also increased pressure on hospitals. Robert Carotta, the coordinator for covid hospital beds, says that the experts are also thinking about whether they will have to send covid patients abroad for treatment, following the example of some other European countries. Slovenia currently has 590 available …
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