Trade union leaders Lidija Jerkič, Branimir Štrukelj, Jakob Počivavšek, Evelina Vesenjak and Peter Majcen, have written a public letter, in which they expressed their opposition to some of the government acts. They also had some help from the General Secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation, Luca Visentini, and accused the government of halting the …
While the mainstream media and certain “Yugonostalgics,” especially supporters of the Levica party (the Left), continue to praise the times when Slovenia was still part of Yugoslavia, a poll conducted by Episcenter for the magazine Domovina (Homeland) proves that the vast majority of Slovenians are still proud of their country, which is celebrating 30 years …
“The biggest “carte blanche” are conversations that last for an hour and a half, and then the journalist feels like he can just attribute quotes to you, which are not even quotes. And he feels that he can just put sentences that were not even said in quotation marks,” said the former minister and commentator …
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Apparently, some people really cannot come to terms with the fact that a left-wing government is not in power, so they are resorting to the well-known modus operandi. According to the Slovenian Press Agency, a group of 166 “seriously concerned” citizens decided to write to Brussels and call on it to stan up for democracy …
After a long time, the Secretary of State at the Ministry of the Interior, Franc Kangler, published a new video. As he says, he is absolutely appalled by the fact that on Val 202, a radio station of the national media outlet RTV Slovenia, they are talking about the protests that took place in Maribor …
The EU should move as soon as possible from a wait-and-see approach to a problem-solving strategy in dealing with the EU enlargement to the Western Balkans, Slovenian FM Anže Logar told the Euractiv news portal in an interview in which he discussed the priorities for Slovenia’s upcoming EU presidency. He said that in recent years, …
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With the independence of the Republic of Slovenia, the Slovenian natural sciences gained a new impetus; new international paths opened up for them. Many achievements have been accomplished over these 30 years, but they should be linked more effectively to the economy, and a greater flow of staff between scientific institutions is needed. At the …
The Strategic Council for Digitalisation presented the first package of measures promoting digitalisation, which the government endorsed at its last week’s session. “These are 40 solutions for the fourth decade of the Slovenian state, which will undoubtedly be a digital one,” said the council’s head Mark Boris Andrijanič. The Council, set up in April, has …
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Stanislav Zore, the archbishop of Ljubljana, looked back upon the path walked since Slovenia declared independence 30 years ago, finding the nation had largely attained its goals. “We may not be there yet in all segments of society and all subsystems, but those who know the workings of the old system from up close, know …
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The number of illegal border crossings rose by some 50 per cent between January and May this year compared to the same period in 2020, figures from Frontex show. Migratory pressure on Europe has further increased, according to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency. Between January and May this year, the number of illegal border crossings at …
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Together, epidemics and migration form a vicious cycle. As the epidemic rears its head in more places, more people tend to leave, and the more people uproot themselves the bigger the danger that the epidemic will spread further, Hungary’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade said in Luxembourg at the one-day meeting of EU foreign …
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The results of the report measuring the Global Peace Index for 2021 are now known. Although we can often hear how Slovenia is supposedly changing into a country with a dictatorship because of the current government, statistics prove once again that these are only malicious accusations that have nothing to do with reality. Namely, Slovenia …
