Robert Golob promised a tax increase before the previous elections. It is one of the few promises he has kept. The “Achilles’ heel of the Slovenian economy,” as Minister Mesec once put it, or export-oriented companies, which are one of the cornerstones of Slovenian prosperity, are on the decline. The causes can also be found …
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In his latest column for the newspaper Slovenske novice (Slovenian News), Matej Lahovnik discussed the new mini-tax reform, which the government is presenting as a help to the economy. He argued that the government is on the wrong side of this issue, as we should first ask how to manage high public spending and only …
“The number of police officers has been decreasing alarmingly in recent years due to negative staff turnover, while security challenges are intensifying,” said the former Director-General of the Police, Dr Anton Olaj, regarding the current state of the police, in light of addressing the pressing Roma issue. He also believes that partnership with people in …
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“Today, I paid 107 euros at the pharmacy for medicine without which I have trouble walking. Because it is now considered to be a higher standard. I have been in regular employment and have been contributing fully to the healthcare budget for more than 20 years,” wrote one frustrated user with multiple sclerosis on the …
“During the Janša government, in order to reduce such abuses, we introduced the local jurisdiction of the administrative unit for registering residence. The Golob government ‘wisely’ abolished this measure and even boasted about it. So now, one can register as a resident in Ankaran at the administrative unit in Lendava.” This is what Dr Božo …
Immediately after the elections, the coalition parties – the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda), the Social Democrats (Socialni demokrati – SD) and the Left party (Levica), led by Robert Golob, began to take over the levers of power in the economic sector. The current government took power on the 1st of June 2022, and then, …
The trial of three defendants, including Janez Janša, in the Trenta case resumed on Tuesday. Before that, the Celje District Court ruled that Andrej Volk and Suzana Žinić would remain judge jurors in what could be called the Patria 2 case, as it is a trial that started after almost 20 years. “The standards of …
Slovenia is unattractive to foreign investors. Some say it is because we are a small Central European country. But anyone who visits the capitals of other Central European post-communist countries will see that there are skyscrapers of foreign multi-corporations there, and when they go to look at the data, they will also see that these …
President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and Prime Minister Robert Golob came to Črna na Koroškem on Tuesday to mock the people of Črna, who have been affected by last year’s disasters. Ursula von der Leyen, a great champion of the rule of law, and the man who has destroyed the rule …
The invitation that the former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni received to the Bled Strategic Forum is causing quite a stir in the coalition ranks. The not-so-silent clash is taking place mainly between the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) and the Left party (Levica). The former are supposedly the ones who invited Livni, while the …
The Speaker of the National Assembly, Urška Klakočar Zupančič, is doing everything in her power to prevent the establishment of a commission of inquiry to look into Prime Minister Golob’s business dealings from the time when he was still the head of the GEN-I energy company, as well as the financing of Golob’s Freedom Movement …
Europeans are dying out. The number of births in the countries of the European Union has fallen below 4 million for the first time since 1960. This is one of the lowest fertility rates in the world. And Slovenia is no exception here. Countries that have managed to identify the fertility rate crisis as a …
