A family quarrel seems to have broken out in the government ranks. The Social Democrats (Socialni Demokrati – SD) and the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) have apparently decided to air their dirty laundry in public – through the “independent media.” The story of the controversial trip of Minister Sanja Ajanović Hovnik (Freedom Movement) to …
Foreign ministers of the Central European Five (C5), a group of countries including Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia, met in Vienna on Wednesday. The Czech Foreign Ministry said that the heads of diplomatic missions – and Slovenian Foreign Minister Tanja Fajon – discussed topical foreign policy issues. They also met with the …
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MEP Dr Milan Zver has addressed two priority questions to the European Commission regarding the construction of the C0 canal in Ljubljana. The title and content of the documents obtained by the European Commission show that the European Commission was aware that the route of the C0 sewage canal passes through the groundwater catchment area …
In the 2023 supplementary budget, the government of Robert Golob has allocated €185.13 million for the purchase of shares of small shareholders in five electricity distribution companies. The plan is to pay out €185.13 million to small shareholders this year through the Slovenian Sovereign Holding (SDH), while “the Slovenian Sovereign Holding may postpone the second …
The Putinisation of Slovenian media continues. The Agency for Communication Networks and Services (AKOS) has issued a decision that TV3 must remove the episode of the show Faktor (Factor), in which Roman Vodeb was critical of the Speaker of the National Assembly Urška Klakočar Zupančič, or graphically write that it is a “hostile” programme. The …
At a recent meeting of the European People’s Party (EPP), Slovenian MEP Romana Tomc launched an initiative for a discussion of the unacceptable employee purges at the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS). The President of EPP, Manfred Weber, has already condemned the said purges and also called on the European Commissioner Věra Jourová to …
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The Energy Policy Bill continues with a “climate just” policy despite all of the engineering as well as geopolitical concerns. If the law, which was in public debate until the 17th of September, is also approved by the National Assembly, a new order of energy sources for energy concepts will be imposed on municipalities. Solar …
In August, Prime Minister Robert Golob (Freedom Movement – Gibanje Svoboda) spent €39,300 on flights on private jets rented by the state from the company Janez let. Another €34,500 was paid to the company Flycom. An additional €22,200 was paid by the Foreign Ministry led by Tanja Fajon (Social Democrats – SD) to Janez let …
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According to the first annual estimate of the Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenia’s gross domestic product grew by 2.5% in real terms last year, while the previous estimate, based on the aggregation of quarterly data, was 5.4%. Last year’s growth was thus significantly lower than the initial estimate and also much slower …
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In the past week, we have followed the political purge of journalists, which four Constitutional Court judges – Matej Accetto, Rajko Knez, Katja Šugman Stubbs and Špelca Mežnar – allowed to happen by overriding the decision that five Constitutional Court judges came to beforehand. In order to force the resignation of the now-former Editor-In-Chief of …
The “depoliticised” management of the national media outlet Radio Television Slovenia (RTVS) is “purging” the public institution of undesirable persons. The victims of a kind of media “night of broken glass” are journalists who are obviously too far removed from the state of mind of the collective of the activistic journalists of RTV and their …
“Directors, editors and journalists are being let go… Will you keep quiet this time, too?” MEP Romana Tomc reacted strongly on Twitter, calling on those who are largely responsible for what is going on to take responsibility after the most recent brutal staff purge at the national media outlet Radio-Television Slovenia (RTVS), which is more …
