On the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of our independence, we talked with the President of the first democratically elected Slovenian government (at that time the official title was still the President of the Executive Council of the Socialist Republic of Slovenia) Alojz Peterle. We talked about the forming of the independent government, the disarmament …
If we want to understand the position and perspectives of Slovenia after 30 years of independence, we must not ignore a very important fact: we are a small country in an extremely interdependent world. What can help small countries succeed in such a globalized world? If they do not have any special geopolitically and historically …
A new and more powerful common front of European nationalists could be born. The Estonian Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) has joined the joint declaration of 16 national parties of the European Parliament calling for a reform of the European Union to prevent the creation of a European super-state free of nations and the establishment of an …
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Throughout the epidemic, international benefit agencies confirmed Slovenia’s favourable benefit ratings, and one of them even raised it during this time. Similarly encouraging news came in late last week. The agencies state that despite the COVID-19 epidemic in Slovenia, a solid framework of macroeconomic policies is reflected. Data on economic growth, continued growth in the …
European Football Championship 2020, now. Germany, Merkel, Von der Leyen have once again grossly abused the European Union and sport by interfering in the internal affairs of Hungary, by directly linking Hungarian athletes with Orban and Hungarian politics. The Germans cannot get out of their old skin! The football match between Germany and Hungary in Munich …
In his assessment of the situation in Yugoslavia, the British diplomat who worked in Yugoslavia wrote, among other things, that the Liberation Front (OF) had been led by Communists from the very beginning, and there was ample evidence that the Communists’ main goal was to create conditions in which they will be able to take …
We talked with the independence activist Igor Bavčar, Minister of the Interior in the Demos government, who was previously the leader of the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights in the Janša, Borštner, Tasič, and Zavrl process, about the independence process, the war of independence and the time until the last soldier left Slovenia. …
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) upgraded by 1.5 percentage points its GDP growth forecast for Slovenia in 2021 to 5%. The institution expects that Slovenia’s economy will expand by a further 4% next year. The bank said that the key factors of the Covid-related contraction were private consumption and investments, which were …
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The rise of crude oil as the most important source of energy in the history of civilization would not have been so spectacular had it not been for four resourceful Poles. The kerosene lamp owes its existence to two Poles—Ignacy Łukasiewicz and Jan Zeh. Another Pole, Witold Zglenicki, found vast deposits of crude oil in …
The Hungarian Presidency of the Visegrád Group organized a summit meeting in Ljubljana between the heads of government of the V4 and Slovenia on Friday, July 8th. The Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, who was present alongside Viktor Orbán and Janez Janša, emphasized that “both the V4 countries and Slovenia are against the attempts of the …
Central Europe: The most important news from July 5th to 11th Read More »
In the last 24 hours, police officers in the area of the Koper Police Department dealt with 6 illegal migrants. 1 Tunisian citizen who applied for asylum was arrested near Brežec; 2 Pakistani nationals were arrested in the Snežnik area; 1 Iranian citizen who applied for asylum was arrested in Prešnica; 1 citizen of Afghanistan …
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The Republic of Slovenia has always been broadminded in granting citizenships. The disappearance of national identity. The pro-migration policy of left-liberal governments. Requirements for doctors and teachers who speak Albanian or Bosnian. How much of Slovenia is still Slovenian? These days mark the thirtieth anniversary of those days in which we “fulfilled the millennial dreams …
How many Slovenians still live in our own country? Read More »
