A 26-year-old man from Maribor who assaulted two police officers, two reporters and a photo journalist during a violent protest in Ljubljana last November has been sentenced to two years and eight months in prison. . Gregor Mitev, who had already signed a plea agreement in May, told the Ljubljana District Court today he regretted …
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In the show Kdo vam laže, the host of the show Boris Tomašič commented on the initiative of Tanja Fajon, which was also signed by Milan Brglez, Irena Joveva, Klemen Grošelj, and Ljudmila Novak, and addressed it to the Minister of Health Janez Poklukar. Namely, they want to provide the people of Slovenia with free …
“I thought America was different, but I saw so many similarities to what I saw in North Korea that I started worrying,” said journalist Yeonmi Park speaking about her experiences attending Columbia University. Park defected from North Korea as a child with her mother. “America’s future is as bleak as North Korea’s,” said a South …
Slovenia’s central bank has markedly upgraded its economic growth forecast for the country since December and is now projecting the economy to expand by 5.2% this year, up 2.1 percentage points, followed by a 4.8% growth in 2022, up from 4.5% forecast in December. Further afield, Banka Slovenije has kept its projections unchanged, which means …
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A new passenger terminal was inaugurated at the Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport. The expansion brings 10,000 square metres of new surfaces, including more space for security checks and baggage handling, and more check-in points. The works on the new terminal started in July 2019. The construction cost EUR 17 million and the equipment another EUR …
The head of the Government Communication Office (UKOM), Uroš Urbanija, urged the director of the Slovenian Press Agency (STA), Bojan Veselinovič, to stop violating personal rights and stop exercising pressure on the independent and professional work of public employees. STA
Foreign Minister Anže Logar argued for a credible continuation of the process to expand the EU to the Western Balkans as he took part in the Global Security Forum in Bratislava on Wednesday. Advancing the countries’ sustainable development, stability and prosperity, such a process is directly in the interests of Slovenia and the whole EU, …
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Ministry of Finance supports the elimination of the consequences of austerity measures for pensioners. As the additional pension adjustments have not yet completely eliminated the negative effects on the pensions, we will strive to find appropriate solutions. What has been taken away must be returned. We also want to reiterate that the Government of the …
Judge Zvjezdan Radonjić has caused quite a stir in the media by pointing out irregularities in the Slovenian judiciary, and thus he also became a victim of targeted revenge. Because the judge did not “calm down” in time – meaning, he did not stop talking about the problems in the judiciary – he received a …
We have recently reported that on Tuesday, the 14th of June, Chairman of the Slovenian Press Agency Supervisory Board Mladen Terčelj wrote a letter to Prime Minister Janez Janša on behalf of all members of the board. The content is nothing new – the supervisors supposedly demanded that the government continue to finance the public …
We are revealing the newest affair of the SD MP Gregor Židan. Through the Olimpija Football Club, he arranged for his acquaintance, a convicted fraudster Zoran Glišić, to serve his sentence as a coach’s assistant of the junior teams led by Židan, instead of serving time in prison. Glišić avoided prison with 1,080 hours of …
Prime Minister Janez Janša and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence, Matej Tonin, M.Sc., were in Brussels on Monday, where the NATO Summit took place, which focused on the NATO 2030 process, a future-oriented agenda centred on adapting NATO to new challenges. These challenges include: relations with Russia, terrorism, cyber-attacks and breakthrough technologies, …
