Director of the Slovenian press Agency, Bojan Veselinovič, does not dare face the director of the Government Communication Office, Uroš Urbanija, on the television screen. “Today, I was invited on the show Topic of the Day (Tema dneva) on Nova24TV to talk about the Slovenian Press Agency. Just like last time, with the show Odmevi …
After the fiasco with the current organisation of vaccination, Germany is also switching to a system that was established in Slovenia from the very beginning. Namely, the German experts finally proposed the following solution: general practitioners should also be vaccinating their patients. Medical teams say that about 50 thousand general practitioners could vaccinate around 20 …
urope needs a political force that preserves families, homelands and national independence within the EU, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban told Hungary’s public media on Friday. Mr Orban added that European politics must be renewed. Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party has parted ways with the European People’s Party, PM Viktor Orban said, adding that he held …
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Literary historian Janko Kos has left the Slovenian Writers’ Association (DSP) over its decision to opt out of the celebration of Slovenia’s 30th independence anniversary because of certain actions by Prime Minister Janez Janša. DSP head Dušan Merc said the only comment to the move could be that “we must accept the fact that academic …
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Slovenia will step up health checks on its borders starting on Monday. It plans to reintroduce checkpoints on internal borders, which were scrapped in mid-February, and tighten quarantine rules for arrivals, Interior Minister Aleš Hojs told the press. “The government is particularly concerned about [coronavirus] variants from South Africa and from countries in which some …
Guy Verhofstadt, a Belgian MEP from the ranks of the political group Renew Europe of the European Parliament, has also turned out to be one of the people who have suddenly become very worried about the state of the media in Slovenia. After the infamous Politico article was published, accusing the Prime Minister Janez Janša …
Sophie In ‘t Veld (Renew / D66), who heads the Group for Monitoring Respect for Democracy, the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights within the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, has sent an invitation letter to the Prime Minister Janez Janša and Minister of Culture Vasko Simoniti for in camera …
In recent days we have revealed the connections between the UEFA president Aleksander Čeferin and the Serbian mafia, in particular through his long-time acquaintance Slaviša Kokeza, who is otherwise also a prominent member of the UEFA, as well as president of the Serbian Football Association. The latest astonishing revelations, however, suggest that Kokeza looks up …
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Three of Slovenia’s four MEPs from the European People’s Party (EPP) did not back changes to the rules of procedure allowing the European People’s Party (EPP) to suspend or exclude a member party from its ranks. Ljudmila Novak, the fourth Slovenian EPP MEP, voted for the changes, having been one of its proponents. The overhauled …
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“Fidesz has left the European People’s Party Group in the European Parliament. It has refused to accept that the rights of Members of the European Parliament – and thus the rights of Hungarian voters – be restricted by an amendment of the Group’s statutes,” Hungarian PM Viktor Orban, the president of the ruling Fidesz party, …
Slovenia is planning to start mass vaccination of teachers against Covid-19 next week, Jelko Kacin, the coordinator for the logistics of mass vaccination, announced as he visited a vaccination point in Ljubljana. If everything goes according to plan, Slovenia could administer about 240,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines in March, which is about half the capacity, …
All secondary school students who have been learning remotely will return to in-person teaching on Monday, the government decided as it conducted its weekly review of coronavirus restrictions. The change comes after schools reopened in mid-February, but only final-year secondary students returned to classrooms to prepare for school-leaving exams. Starting next week, primary school students …
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