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 …
Slovenian Radio-Television has proven to be too independent for Slovenia’s current Prime Minister Janez Janša, the British weekly The Economist wrote – which is supposedly known as a fairly credible and objective media outlet. However, the cited statement shows it in a completely different light. They also wrote that for more than a year now, …
On Palm Sunday, the 8th of April 1990, the first multi-party elections after the Second World War took place in Slovenia, at which the Democratic Opposition of Slovenia (in Slovenian: Demokratična opozicija Slovenije – Demos) won. Elections that were held 31 years ago were free and multi-party, but the SDS party believes that they were …
In his latest book, Culture and Politics (Kultura in Politika in Slovenian), academic Janko Kos briefly but yet understandably and accurately explains the course of Slovenia’s transition from the communist rule to democracy. In the beginning, “an agreement was reached between the old communist elite and the bearers of the democratic renewal.” With the end …
The former politician turned wealthy businessman and his wife were brutally attacked, tied up and beaten in their home by four burglars of African descent. Ironically, the victim had previously argued that there was no link between growing migration and deteriorating public security. French tycoon Bernard Tapie and his wife were attacked while asleep in …
The speakers at today’s press conference on the current COVID-19 situation were State Secretary Jelko Kacin, National Logistics Coordinator for the Mass Vaccination Campaign against COVID-19, and Tatjana Lejko Zupanc, Head of the Clinic for Infectious Diseases and Fever Conditions at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana. On Easter Monday, 273 out of 1,879 PCR tests …
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Slovenia woke up to an unseasonably cold morning with temperatures dipping into the 20s below zero in the south of the country in what is the coldest April morning on record. The lowest morning temperature, -20.6 degrees, was recorded in Nova Vas in southern Slovenia, the lowest April temperature on record, and trailed closely by …
