Foreign Minister Anže Logar hosted his counterparts from Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia to discuss Slovenia’s upcoming EU presidency and the coronavirus pandemic. “The meeting was a great opportunity to present our views and priorities for the presidency so as to harmonise key issues that will be on the EU’s agenda within the …
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Tonight marks 20 years since the attack on the then Večer journalist Miro Petek. The Slovenian (left) media mainstream accuses the center-right government of curtailing journalistic freedom, attacking journalists, and endangering their lives. They inform the international public and organisations about this, although none of it is true, as everyone is guaranteed freedom of expression, …
“Brussels’ interference can be a double-edged sword. The success of the European intervention is questionable, especially if it would foster the feeling in Slovenian politics that the EU is not part of the solution, but part of the problem,” the “independent” and “transparent” newspaper Delo (work) wrote on Sunday, as they are worried about various …
“It is high time for Slovenian high schoolers to start writing graffiti everywhere, in public and non-public places, that say: LIBERATION FRONT 2.0, and then live in accordance with this, too! The clerical fascism of the corrupt Janez Janša, with the support of the Catholic Church, is trying to deprive them of their personal, professional …
“With the judgement of the District Judge Vlasta Lajlar in the criminal case against the accused Luka Štitić for the criminal offence of threatening, under the first paragraph of Article 135 of the Criminal Code (Kazenski zakonik – KZ-1), following the indictment by the District Court in Celje (…) on the 18th of January (…), …
At Friday’s press conference, Minister of Health Janez Poklukar said that Slovenia has confirmed the first case of the South African coronavirus variant, detected in the Maribor area in a person who has returned from Africa. The Epidemiological Service traced all high-risk contacts and sent them into quarantine. The Minister also said that, as a …
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Illegal immigrants arriving from along the Balkan route were being assisted by a self-purported volunteer aide association which is now under investigation as part of a large-scale crack-down in Italy. The Trieste prosecutor’s office has initiated proceedings against the alleged volunteer association for aiding and abetting illegal immigration. The Trieste-based Linea d’Ombra Association was founded …
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On Friday, two positive and one negative event happened. In the morning, we found out that the Prime Minister had sent a letter to the President of the European Commission, Ursula van der Leyen, in which he presented the actual state of the media landscape in Slovenia. Janša called on the European Commission to send …
The opposition parties SD, LMŠ and Levica clearly felt the need to immediately respond to the letter that the Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia, Janez Janša, sent to the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. He invited her to check the state of democracy and media freedom in Slovenia with …
Last year, due to the coronavirus epidemic, the economic climate fell sharply. The general climate started to recover slowly when some of the activities reopened but slightly fell again in autumn due to the renewed restrictive measures. However, regardless of the restrictive measures that have been in place for the past couple of months, the …
On Monday, at Brdo pri Kranju, Slovenian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anže Logar will hold a meeting with Austrian MFA Alexander Schallenberg, Czech MFA Tomaš Petriček, Hungarian MFA Péter Szijjárto and Slovak MFA Ivan Korcok. All members of the #C5 foreign ministers group.
The day after the failed vote of no confidence, an article by the journalist of the Politico media outlet, Lili Bayer, was published. Since she described the journalistic landscape in a country that is a member state of the European Union as oppressed and stated that Prime Minister Janez Janša is the person who is …
