The home affairs ministers of Slovenia and Hungary, Aleš Hojs and Sandor Pinter, met in Celje on Wednesday on the sidelines of a meeting between the two prime ministers, Janez Janša and Viktor Orban, to discuss the security situation and migration. A press release from the Slovenian Ministry of Interior Affairs, said the two ministers …
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UNESCO, the United Nations educational scientific and cultural organisation, has formally declared a biosphere reserve spanning the Mura, Drava and Danube rivers, the first five-country biosphere in the world. The area, spanning 900,000 hectares along the three rivers, has thus become the largest protected riparian reserve in Europe.
A total of 1,364 new coronavirus infections were confirmed in Slovenia on Tuesday, up 25% from a week earlier, while six patients with Covid-19 died, according to the latest data. The positivity rate was just over 20%, down from almost 25% a day earlier. The 7-day average of new cases rose to 953 and the …
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A few days ago, on the 20th anniversary of the horrific terrorist attacks by al-Qaeda Islamists, which claimed nearly three thousand lives in the United States, the whole world sympathised with the people of the United States. However, Mesec’s Levica party (the Left) published a short article on its website, entitled “20 Years after 9/11,” …
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On Tuesday, the government visited the Savinjska statistical region. The members of the government first met for a working consultation in Podčetrtek, where the mayor of the Podčetrtek Municipality, Peter Misja, gave an opening speech. The mayor commended a number of projects that are taking place in the municipality at the moment and pointed out …
Thirty years after gaining our independence, we still have a half-democracy in Slovenia because the left-wing political forces never intended to really step down from power and allow for pluralism, said the retired Archbishop of Ljubljana, Anton Stres, at the end of the 56th Draga Study Days 2021, adding that the forces of continuity still …
Slovenia plans to erect several dozen kilometres of new fencing on the border with Croatia in an effort to crack down on illegal migrations, Interior Minister Aleš Hojs said. An agreement on the new fencing is about to be finalised and the construction work should start within two or three weeks, Hojs told reporters during …
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Oriana Fallaci (died September 15th, 2006) about… … Islam (1): “Thinking that there is good and bad Islam is at odds with reason.” … Eurabia: “Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion takes place not only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.” …
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Slovenia has been recording solid tourism figures this year but the sector is not expected to bounce back before 2023 or, more likely, 2024, Economy Ministry State Secretary Simon Zajc said. Asian guests are unlikely to return before 2023. However, the digital Covid pass will make travel easier for European tourists in that it removes …
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The number of new coronavirus cases continues to rise in Slovenia, with 1,393 infections being detected on Monday, which is up 59% from a week ago and the highest daily figure since 7 April. The number of Covid-19 patients in hospitals was up by 21 to 333 and the number of patients in intensive care …
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After we revealed the exclusive news on our web portal that the director of the Slovenian Press Agency, Bojan Veselinovič, intends to leave the Agency after the end of his second term on the 31st of December this year and then continue his career as a director or super-editor of the centralised editorial office in …
We recently learned that the current director of the Slovenian Press Agency (Slovenska tiskovna agencija – referred to as the STA) has supposedly found a new job. According to our source, Veselinovič is supposed to become the director/super-editor of the media tycoon Martin Odlazek’s centralised editorial office in Vevče. As the STA recently reported, the …
