“We will encourage young women who want to stay at home and dedicate their time to their family and children, to do just that, by ensuring that a woman with four children gets enough financial opportunities to not have to go to work, and by ensuring that she will still receive a pension,” the SDS …
“A journalist of the Slovenian Press Agency (Slovenska tiskovna agencija – referred to as the STA) finally revealed why the director Bojan Veselinovič did not want to hand over the documentation to the Government Communication Office (Urad Vlade Republike Slovenije za komuniciranje – hereinafter referred to as UKOM) – not because of any legal obstacles, …
Slovenia’s Expo commissioner general Matic Volk has told the STA that over 70 Slovenian companies have already registered for Expo 2020 while the goal is to have more than 100, with at least 14 business delegations planned. Promotion of Slovenia and the companies will be enhanced with a range of events taking place at the …
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Slovenia recorded 26 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday, down by over 70% from the week before as a weeks-long decline continues. No patient with Covid-19 died, in what is the second day this week without Covid deaths, the latest government data show. The new cases come from nearly 1,060 PCR tests, for a positivity …
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On 18 June 2021, Minister Andrej Šircelj attended the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) meeting in Luxembourg. Ministers took stock in particular on recovery and resilience plans, economic recovery in the European Union, the European Semester and value-added tax. The economic recovery process made progress in the last two days. The European Commission has …
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Prime Minister Janez Janša today, at the invitation of Mayor Ivan Žagar, attended the municipal ceremony in Slovenska Bistrica to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Slovenia’s independence and the seizing of the military storage facility in Zgornja Ložnica, where he also delivered a keynote address. As part of the ceremony, the busts of Dr Jože …
The event that marked the undoubted beginning of the Slovenian Spring took place on 16 February 1987 – the 57th issue of Nova revija was published on that day. This issue of the journal was special because it included contributions to the Slovenian National Program, which triggered tectonic shifts. Already in 1986, after numerous public …
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The path from the birth of the self-determination of a nation to its realisation is long. A nation must first shape itself and then assert its right to self-determination. This is a process that generally, but not always … … and not necessarily leads to an independent state. This was also the case of the …
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Efforts to do away with member states’ right to veto in EU foreign policy decision-making constitute yet another attack on national sovereignty, the Hungarian Center for Fundamental Rights pointed out. Conventionally, foreign policy falls within the competence of member states, Istvan Kovacs, strategic director of the research institute dealing with legal analysis, pointed out referring to …
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Prime Minister Janez Janša attended the opening ceremony of the new passenger terminal at Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport, where he was also the main speaker. Before the ceremony, the Prime Minister met with representatives of Fraport AG – Dr Pierre Dominique Prümm, Member of the Executive Board of Fraport AG and Executive Director for Aviation …
State Secretary mag. Monika Kirbiš Rojs participated in an online expert consultation “Who will be eligible to the billions of EU funding?” where she presented the opportunities for companies and municipalities in the frame of Slovenia’s Recovery and Resilience Plan as well as the implementation of the 2021-2027 EU Cohesion Policy. The online consultation that …
Foreign Ministry State Secretary Stanislav Raščan has announced at a virtual donors’ conference in solidarity with Venezuela’s migrants and refugees in Latin America that Slovenia will donate EUR 60,000, the Foreign Ministry said. The contribution through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will be donated in two instalments, this year and in 2022. …
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