“This new agreement shows, above all, that firstly, they lack imagination, and secondly, that the programme has absolutely no content. They have no political imagination and no content, that is, no ideas about what to do with Slovenia to continue to help it develop, as it is developing now, under the current government, and they …
European Commission Vice-President Vera Jourova pointed out that the commission had closely followed recent developments in Slovenia, including the legal proceedings and discussions on the new public service contract, reports the Slovenian Press Agency (Slovenska tiskovan agencija – referred to as the STA). “We understand that, under Slovenian national law, it is the duty of …
Tasks of the state include removing the obstacles to starting a family. Ten years ago, the Hungarian government identified five areas of focus to build the country’s family policy on, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said, and also addressed other issues at the 4th Demographic Summit in Budapest. “The Demographic Summit in Budapest is not merely …
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Yesterday, Prime Minister Janez Janša attended the Budapest Demographic Summit. The summit is an annual event hosting top-level speakers, members of the EU and national parliaments, former ministers, senior religious leaders, civil society representatives, academics and journalists. As statistics show that birth rates in the Western world are declining and that Western societies are growing …
EU energy ministers discussed ways to tackle rising power and gas prices. Energy Commissioner Kadri Simson said the Commission could validate “short-term temporary measures” to tackle the effects of the rising prices. She listed tax and excise policies, targeted measures for the energy poor, temporary measures for households and small companies, and direct support for …
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“Not only do we need to strengthen the military garrison and expand the mixed patrols with Slovenia, but we risk that these efforts will be thwarted if we do not return to informal readmissions of migrants by Slovenia.” This was stated by the Italian Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of the Interior Nicola Molteni …
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Foreign Ministry State Secretary Stanislav Raščan called for an increase in aid for Yemen as he took part in a special event on the humanitarian crisis in the country on the sidelines of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly. He expressed concern over the ever larger gap between the humanitarian needs and the …
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The National Assembly have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a bill that seeks to better protect pet, increase their well-being and enhance the responsibility of their owners. The amendments to the animal protection act were backed on Wednesday in an 87:1 vote. Presenting the new legislation, Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek said on Tuesday the solutions …
“This is a region that will face global change, where global warming will endanger life on the African continent, and the countries of the Mediterranean region are the first point of contact for the EU,” explained Foreign Minister Anže Logar in Slovenia’s accession to the Mediterranean group EU Med (formerly Med 7). Croatia also joined the …
From March 2020 to December 31st, 2020, the Slovenian police had 5,539,966.90 euros in costs, and from January 1st, 2021 to September 20th, 2021 it had 342,683.92 euros of costs. In total, it had as much as “882,650.82 euros in costs for the security of public gatherings, which were not reported in accordance with the Public …
Prime Minister Janez Janša has invited the executive director of SpaceX and Tesla, billionaire Elon Musk, to invest in Slovenia, after the former wrote on Twitter that Tesla does not know yet where to build the fourth Gigafactory. Symbolically, the most suitable place would be Maribor – where the inventor Nikola Tesla got his first …
The testimony of partisan Anton Cizel has reopened the debate on the extrajudicial murders by the communist authorities and the investigation of post-war crimes. “Investigations need to be concluded, a lot has already been done, but there is still a lot of work ahead of us. All human rights violations need to be investigated, and …
