Dear citizens of Slovenia, Dear fellow Slovenians at home and abroad. The hope that Easter brings touches our open hearts time and again. Every time as if it were for the first time and always the way that we need it most at that precise moment. We draw strength from Easter hope. We rely on …
Easter message by the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia Janez Janša Read More »
In a secret ballot, Igor Zorčič remained the President of the National Assembly. However, there are already calls from the public that it would be politically correct to resign in this case, as he is no longer part of the government coalition. According to the current practice, the position of the President of the National Assembly …
Director of the Government Communication Office (Urad Vlade Republike Slovenije za komuniciranje – referred to as UKOM) congratulated his journalistic colleague on Twitter, as she was elected president of the Slovenian Union of Journalists. However, the union clearly positioned itself against UKOM when it called on the government to immediately fulfil its financial obligations to …
On Saturday afternoon, hundreds of people gathered in Maribor to protest against the mandatory wearing of masks outside and the testing of children for the novel coronavirus. They were not wearing masks nor maintaining the necessary distance from one another, and among other things, they also hugged and sang together. They did all of this, …
Yesterday’s press conference on the current COVID-19 situation was attended by Tjaša Žohar Čretnik, the Director of the National Laboratory for Health, the Environment and Food, and Leon Cizelj from the Jožef Stefan Institute. On Wednesday, 5,622 PCR tests were performed and 1,335 cases were confirmed. The share of positive tests was thus 23.7%. Five …
The key measure of the lockdown is to avoid social contact Read More »
After schools reopen on 12 April, secondary school students will begin self-testing for coronavirus, followed a while later by pupils of the final three years of primary school. Announcing the plan while on a visit to Maribor, Health Minister Janez Poklukar said everything would be done for schools to reopen on 12 April. By then …
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“Do they have the betrayal of the nation in their genes? The Slovenian extremist left, represented mainly by the Levica, LMŠ and SD parties, is behaving similarly during the fight against the epidemic as it did at the time of the plebiscite and independence exactly 30 years ago,” Prime Minister Janez Janša wrote. “They are …
“Can I knock on the doors of the National Assembly?” rapper Zlatko asked the police at Wednesday’s protest, to which he came carrying a large wooden cross, along with a crowd of protesters, which also included the old acquaintance of the police, delinquent Anis Ličina. After Tuesday’s incident, when security guards arrested a man with …
The Portuguese Presidency has proposed a plan to distribute three million doses out of ten million among the five most affected countries. Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Austria opposed this, while the other Member States agreed with the solidarity plan. Due to not agreeing with the plan, Slovenia will receive more vaccines, which could have …
It is a well-known fact that when the leftists fail to achieve a turnaround and therefore do not get back in power, they resort to exporting lies abroad. However, since the media and the people abroad are not familiar with the actual situation in our country, they buy into the lies very easily. The most …
We are publishing the public letter, written by the employed researchers at the Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti – referred to as ZRC SAZU), Matija Ogrin, Ph.D., Boris Golec, Ph.D, and Anton Velušček, Ph.D. In it, they accused the director of the Research …
All those who sign up will be vaccinated in the country by the end of August, according to the revised schedule. By using more vaccination points and administering jabs first according to birth dates, and then without any age restrictions, Poland will switch to a mass vaccination strategy, reporters were told during Tuesday afternoon’s press briefing, held jointly …
