The judiciary likes to present itself as independent and free from any outside interests – regardless of trials that had elements of political prosecution, or of public displays of judges with totalitarian symbols at political party meetings. What is more, such judges are also given special awards to confirm their “independent” stance. Something exactly like
The renovation of the Jesenice railway station was only the most publicly exposed of the Ministry of Infrastructure’s public financial excesses. There is also the renovation of the Nova Gorica railway station, the upgrade of the Ljubljana railway station and the Maribor-Šentilj line. The Ministry of Infrastructure will soon reopen the budget purse (for known
Two more hearings in the Trenta case are scheduled to happen before the end of the year. In this week’s episode of the show “Hour of Power” (“Ura moči”) on Planet TV, Branko Kastelic, the former director of the company Imos and a defendant in the Trenta case, who is accused of damaging his company
After the ruling Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) had said as recently as in October that people need not worry about the new network charging system, even they realised in mid-November that this would not be the case. The Prime Minister began to express his indignation and, in the role of a saviour, announced that
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“We have lunatics in power who cannot be stopped – except by taking to the streets. Down with the Freedom Movement (Gibanje Svoboda)!” urged influencer Karin Planinšek. In a new video, the influencer and political commentator Karin Planinšek asks whether we are actually aware of the serious problems we are currently facing in the country.
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Rumours about the political future of the Minister of Cohesion and Regional Development, Aleksander Jevšek, have once again started circulating in the media. As we reported a few days ago, he is likely to continue his political career as the Ambassador in Sarajevo. We reported last week that Minister Aleksander Jevšek would travel to Sarajevo
This week has brought a new milestone in Slovenian parliamentarianism. At a meeting of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly, coalition MPs voted to silence the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) MP, Zvone Černač. They were very bothered by his criticism of the judiciary, which (according to their political folklore)
Thursday’s extraordinary session of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly will undoubtedly remain in many people’s memories for a long time to come. It was the first time in history that members of the coalition had taken the floor from a Member of Parliament by vote. There were also numerous interruptions of Slovenian
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Thursday’s meeting of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly focused on Slovenia’s “miscarriage of justice”. MPs of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska straka – SDS) expressed their disagreement with the conduct of the Slovenian judicial system, which often acts unjustly, with many cases ending up before the European Court of Human Rights.
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For quite some time now, Prime Minister Robert Golob has been flirting with the fine line that separates crime from politics. Just remember how he publicly and enthusiastically admitted on the national media oulet, Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS), that he had been recruiting (or “purging Janšaists” – supporters of Janez Janša) in the public broadcaster and
In the latest issue of the Demokracija magazine (“Democracy”), we took a closer look at the recent promotional “coffee meet-up” of Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković, Prime Minister Robert Golob, and the last leader of the Communist Party of Slovenia and first President of the Republic of Slovenia Milan Kučan at the Ljubljana market. By meeting
In the early hours of Friday morning, Satko Zovko (formerly Kekić) was killed in a mafia confrontation on the outskirts of Ljubljana. Initial media reports that the murder victim was a protected witness in Slovenia were quickly denied by the police. Former Interior Minister Hojs believes that we are witnessing a “complete breakdown of the