Yesterday’s press conference on the current situation regarding COVID-19 was attended by Mateja Logar, the Head of the Advisory Group of the Ministry of Health, and Tomaž Vovko, specialist in infectiology and intensive care medicine. A total of 1,484 PCR tests were carried out on Sunday, of which 287 were positive, amounting to 19.3 per …
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The government adopted a draft decree at a correspondence session on Monday saying that a referendum on the changes to the 2021 and 2022 budgets implementation act to allow for long-term financing of investments in the Slovenian Armed Forces would be inadmissible. The Finance Ministry argued in a press release after the government session that …
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A group of 13 EU countries, including Slovenia, intends to address a letter to chief EU institutions listing seven priorities in preparations for Covid-status certificates that are expected to facilitate travel amid the pandemic. The countries call for launching the system as soon as possible, preferably by June. STA
Bojana Pustinek Miočić is a teacher of history and sociology at the elementary school Ljubno ob Savinji. She is also a promoter and sometimes even the organiser of the vile protests against the wearing of masks, against vaccination, and against the testing of children. Her Facebook profile also reveals that she is very much against …
Threats and verbal attacks on journalist Bojan Požar continue. However, the left-wing media are paying no attention to this. Taxi drivers and the like have really gone crazy. The threats against journalist Bojan Požar continue, and the journalist has “dedicated” his third article to the taxi drivers and their machinations related to the upcoming arrival …
The whole thing is so absurd that it is starting to seem like a disease – namely, Mrs. Fajon seems to have forgotten who led Slovenia for most of the years after it gained its independence, who set up the system she is horrified by, and – the fact that is the most striking – …
For a long time now, Slovenian politics has not been able to decide who will become the new Constitutional Court judge of the Republic of Slovenia. After the unsuccessful attempts of filling the position by Anže Erbežnik, Andraž Teršek and Barbara Zobec (she withdrew her candidacy), this time, the representatives of the people will soon …
Ever since the failed no-confidence vote against the government with the proposed candidate for prime minister, Karl Erjavec, it has been possible to hear how the country is supposed to have problems with media freedom and respect for the rule of law. As a whole bunch of untruths are circulating outside Slovenia, especially in Brussels, at …
The Prime Minister’s Office announced that Janez Janša was the speaker at a virtual conference entitled “Changing paradigms in a pandemic world: How to regain trust?” – Health, happiness, and ethics”. The virtual conference was held under the auspices of the World Forum for Ethics and Business. The conference was also attended by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, …
After the Minister of Infrastructure Jernej Vrtovec announced legislation that will regulate and modernise the existing taxi services, which includes making the business transactions between providers and customers easier, there has been a growing demand for the arrival of providers such as Uber. Of course, this is not surprising, as such services allow users cheaper …
Minister of Defence Matej Tonin responded to the developments between the Slovenian Press Agency (Slovenska tiskovna agencija – referred to as the STA) and the Government Communication Office (Urad Vlade Republike Slovenije za komuniciranje – referred to as UKOM). Veselinovič sent Tonin a letter explaining the current situation at the STA, and Tonin explained that …
Like every year, the SDS party once again turned to voters with its public opinion poll related to current topics. Sixty-four percent of the voters find it scandalous that the previous governments allocated more than 26 million euros for the Slovenian Press Agency and more than a billion euros for RTV Slovenia (from the collected …
