“The pensioners are very important when the elections are coming up, but when the elections are over, everyone is happy if they just stay quiet,” said Pavel Rupar, member of the Voice of Pensioners of Slovenia, criticising the current situation of pensioners. He points out that if we do not regulate pensions and the status …
Prime Minister Robert Golob maintains that he does not know Martin Berishaj and denies all transactions that have taken place or any connection to the disclosed transactions, which point to alleged money laundering by the state-owned company. However, it is difficult to believe what he says, since, according to the web portal Prava, when he …
Even though everywhere else in the world, people are proud of their respective countries’ independence, and it would never even occur to them to abolish a museum celebrating the process of their country gaining independence, things are different in Slovenia. Last week, the government of Robert Golob implemented the announcement made by Asta Vrečko, Minister …
Before the holidays, the government of Robert Golob surprised the wider Slovenian public by announcing an amendment to the Financial Administration Act, which contains a highly controversial provision that allows the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia to secretly track cargo (and, therefore, citizens, too) without a judge’s order. The law was initially opposed …
“The government’s argument that the Museum of Independence should be merged with the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia for the purposes of “transparent and strategically outlined professional work,” is completely wrong and, in fact, a politically motivated argument which, objectively speaking, is directed against the understanding of the meaning of Slovenian independence and statehood,” …
The Albanian financial affair of Slovenian Prime Minister Robert Golob has become international. He tried to cover it up both when it was first revealed as well as now, denying his involvement despite the evidence. The news and his links with Ambassador Martin Berishaj were reported by many Balkan media outlets, especially after it was …
Mojca Šetinc Pašek, an MP from the Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda), has repeatedly demonstrated with her words and actions in the past that good manners are not one of her strong points. She has even gone so far as to blackmail certain individuals in order to achieve what she wanted. This proves once again …
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The damages claim of the President of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), Janez Janša, involved key people in the Patria case, who conducted the trial on the basis of an unspecified place, time and means of communication used for committing the crime, and their legal judgement was subsequently overturned by the …
“We strongly protest against the government’s decision to abolish the Museum of Slovenian Independence, which has been operating for more than a year and a half. In a challenging situation, when we are facing many problems, it is even more important to build a relationship with the country as a common value. We realised it …
“We have two key problems in the Slovenian healthcare system. One is the non-competitiveness of salaries, and the other is corruption in the procurement of medical equipment,” Janez Janša said in a recent episode of the show “Odmevi” (“Echoes”). Janša’s government had tackled the latter of the problems at its source – the problem of …
On Sunday afternoon, police officers visited Roman Vodeb to take his statement. “The police came to tell me ex officio that Urška Klakočar Zupančič is bothered by some of the things I have been saying.” Namely, the Speaker of the National Assembly filed a police report against Vodeb, and a report with the Agency for …
Brussels is applying a double standard in the case of Hungarian universities run by foundations. While the European Commission is requiring academic institutions in Hungary to be independent of the government and is punitively locking out students from the Erasmus programme, it is an accepted common practice in universities throughout the EU that politicians, ministers, …
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