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, …
Director-General of the Police, Anton Olaj, Ph.D., has announced that after learning about and then examining the criminal complaint against him, presented by the Levica party (The Left) at a press conference in the National Assembly on Wednesday, the 9th of June 2021, he has now filed a written criminal complaint against the party, on …
Slovenia climbed three spots to 9th among 165 countries in the implementation of the Agenda 2030 sustainable development goals, according to a report compiled by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network under the wings of the UN, the Bertelsmann Stiftung foundation and the Cambridge University Press. Slovenia has fared best in eradicating extreme forms of poverty, …
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The decade ahead of us will be a period of epidemics and mass migration. Member states and NATO must be prepared to respond to these challenges, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in Brussels, after arriving at the one-day summit of NATO members on Monday. Whether the meeting will mark a turning point can only …
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