The National Assembly adopted on Wednesday an amended housing act whose overarching goal is to increase the number of public rental homes in the country. Under the new legislation, public housing funds will be allowed to take on more debt to speed up construction of new flats. According to government projections, an extra EUR 200 …
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Slovenia’s Ambassador at the UN Darja Bavdaž Kuret, whose term expires in June, hosted a working reception for EU delegates and negotiators on the UN General Assembly Fifth Committee, which has been meeting virtually since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on UN rules, the fifth committee distributes member states’ contributions between the regular …
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Slovenia will resume the process to purchase eight-wheeled Boxer armoured personnel carriers (APCs) from the Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation (OCCAR) after the deal, at the time valued at EUR 306 million, was shelved by the previous government early in 2019. The government today got acquainted with the procedure to buy the 8X8 Boxer vehicles …
After a series of unsuccessful interpellations, the opposition decided to use an instrument of a proposal for a constitutional indictment out of a desire for a new government. Yesterday’s debate, which ended miserably again, served with a whole bunch of nonsense and untruths, which undoubtedly include the statement of MP Jani Möderndorfer from Šarec’s LMŠ …
Santiago Abascal, the leader and MP of the Spanish VOX party, paid a visit to Hungary and was also received by Hungarian PM Viktor Orban in Budapest on Thursday morning, PM Orban’s press chief, Bertalan Havasi, told Hungary’s state news agency (MTI). “Border protection, family policy, Christian culture – we believe this is what the …
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“The brownshirts were once again making threats in front of the Ministry of Culture. They poured red paint on the road and the sidewalk, and the police calmly watched them and waited for them to finish,” Mitja Iršič, a public relations consultant at the Ministry of Culture, wrote in a post on Twitter. While some …
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“It is still an indisputable fact that the epidemic is not over yet,” warned Minister of the Interior Aleš Hojs, backing his words up with the data which shows that the central region of Slovenia is actually still among those with the worst epidemiological picture. The government decrees are very clear. At the moment, up …
According to lawyers, there is no reason why the national part of the procedure for appointing European Delegate Prosecutors should not be carried out in the same way as the procedure for appointing national prosecutors, in which the government has greater powers when it comes to the confirmation of candidates. The European Public Prosecutor’s Office …
The National Assembly passed an amendment sponsored by Democrat (SDS) MP Jože Tanko under which the Constitutional Court will need to handle each petition for which the petitioner had legitimate interests on submission even though they have lost those while waiting for their petition to be handled. Tanko said the court would thus no longer …
The National Assembly adopted on Wednesday an amended housing act whose overarching goal is to increase the number of public rental homes in the country. Under the new legislation, public housing funds will be allowed to take on more debt to speed up construction of new flats. According to government projections, an extra EUR 200 …
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Infrastructure Minister Jernej Vrtovec met his Austrian counterpart Leonore Gewessler in Vienna to discuss bilateral cooperation, especially in transport and infrastructure, and bilateral relations. They agreed cooperation should be strengthened in infrastructure. Vrtovec also presented to his Austrian counterpart the priorities of Slovenia’s upcoming EU presidency in the second half of the year in transport. …
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The Culture Ministry announced the art exhibition that was planned to be put up at the European Parliament during Slovenia’s EU presidency will go ahead, yet under conditions set by Minister Vasko Simoniti. This is after the Parliament said ten days ago the show was cancelled and Simoniti said that was his decision. “The works …
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