“The current Government of the Republic of Slovenia, including the incompetent Minister of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, is clearly about to deliver one last blow to the Slovenian farmer. Alongside doctors, farmers are also a class enemy for this government,” wrote MP Jelka Godec of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS). The Freedom Movement party (Gibanje Svoboda) will deprive the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia (KGZS) of its agricultural advisory service and starve it of staff and money. This is a major blow for the Slovenian farmer in particular.
The government of Robert Golob is putting its own interests before the good of the everyman. In its hatred of the countryside, this time, it has violently brutalised the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia. The organisation will celebrate 25 years since its establishment this year and will be euthanised by the Minister of Agriculture, Mateja Čalušić. This is an act without any feeling for the Slovenian farmer, who will be left without the largest non-governmental organisation of farmers, with over 110,000 obligatory members, reports the media outlet Dnevnik.
The reason for this decision is pure political revenge, because last year, the Slovenian Democratic Party, with former Agriculture Minister Jože Podgoršek, democratically (through elections) took control of the Chamber. We live in a democracy, where interests are promoted through democratic mechanisms. However, the transitional left, which remains a prisoner of the demons of the 20th century (with its non-conviction of all totalitarianisms), clearly does not understand this.
The Freedom Movement is driven only by revenge
And besides, nothing but death and destruction can be expected from the current government, be it in the economy, healthcare, in terms of family policies, the elderly and sick, or when it comes to unborn human life. This is the culture of death. The gravedigger of the Slovenian farmer, Minister Čalušić, is planning to take away the agricultural advisory service from the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry and, with it, a large part of its staff, budget money and assets. This could mean the complete destruction of the Chamber.
However, this harmful decision probably was not her own idea, but is instead something that came from her consultants. However, as head of the department, she is responsible for it. The aforementioned newspaper highlights two of her colleagues – State Secretary Eva Knez, who has previously gone to Brussels instead of the Minister to attend the Councils of Agriculture Ministers, and Brane Golubović. In total, seven new laws are expected to be prepared for a public discussion and are being produced as if on an assembly line. What they all have in common is that the Ministry has not coordinated them with anyone, not even with the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry, even though it is legally obliged to do so. Thus, among other things, the agricultural advisory service (for the first time after the year 2000) is being moved back to the Ministry, which probably means the demise of the Chamber.
“Employees who perform public agricultural advisory service tasks in the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry and public institutions of which the Chamber is the founder will be taken over by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food, on the 1st of January 2026. Namely, they will be taken over by the newly-created Agricultural Advisory and Development Administration. As of the 1st of January 2026, the state will become the owner of the property, assets and liabilities of both the Chamber and its eight institutions in the proportion currently used for the provision of the public agricultural advisory service. The Agricultural Advisory and Development Administration will also take over the documentation, archives and records relating to the implementation of the agricultural advisory service from the Chamber.”
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