Slovenian candidate for European Commissioner Marta Kos’s cooperation with the former Yugoslavian Directorate for State Security, also known as UDBA, is reverberating beyond Slovenia’s borders. The media outlet Visegrád 24 wrote: “The far-left Slovenian government plans to appoint Marta Kos, a former member of the Yugoslav communist secret service, as their European Commissioner,” adding the hashtag #decommunisation. The matter has sparked extensive debate and criticism, as documents from the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, together with recent testimonies, allegedly prove Kos’s collaboration with the Directorate for State Security.
The evidence suggests that Marta Kos played an active role in the Directorate for State Security, which raises serious questions about her moral compass and independence in carrying out her European duties. The question is whether she is suitable to be a European Commissioner, as her past could shake confidence in the institutions of the European Union, which firmly rejects all three totalitarian regimes, including communism.
In fact, documents from the archives mentioned above show that Marta Kos had a file with the registration number 0014000-05448, which, according to the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, classifies her as a registered collaborator of the State Security Service. This number is linked to known sources and State Security Service officials, which shows the seriousness of the accusations. These lists have been labelled as false and untrustworthy by Kos, but have been authenticated by the courts and the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia as revealing the collaborators of the Directorate for State Security.
She was an informant for the Directorate for State Security from Germany
Marta Kos is said to have been recruited while studying journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FDV) in Ljubljana, and to have continued informing the Directorate for State Security during her stay in Germany, where she moved in 1989. During this time, she worked at the Deutsche Welle radio station in Cologne, where she was supposedly informing the Directorate about her findings via marked letters.
In addition to Marta Kos, her brothers, Miran and Drago Kos, are also alleged to have been involved in the activities of the Directorate, which further supports the thesis that the whole family was linked to the secret political police. The Kos family’s ambitious goals today are no coincidence, as the foundations for this were laid during their collaboration with the former regime. These allegations and the evidence, backed up by archival sources, have caused quite a stir in relation to the appointment of Marta Kos as European Commissioner and have sparked debates on whether she should even be in such an important position at the European level with such a background.
A.G.
