Dimitrij Rupel, a long-time Minister of Foreign Affairs, wrote a letter to the president of the German liberals, Christian Wolfgang Lindner, regarding Alenka Bratušek’s efforts to get the SMC party excluded from the European liberals’ ALDE group. Rupel called on Lindner to encourage an independent investigation into Bratušek’s proposal, as what she is demanding is
When Alenka Bratušek made a fool of herself in front of the competent European parliamentary committee and embarrassed Slovenia with her (self)nomination for the position of European Commissioner, not even the ALDE group supported her. Bratušek was certain that at least part of the blame for it lay with Jelko Kacin, who she believed was
Roman Jakič is another political convert on the left-wing political pole. In the past, he was a long-time member of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS) party. After Zoran Janković entered politics, Jakič joined his party Positive Slovenia (PS). He was also a member of Golobič’s Zares party for some time. When the rift between
Guy Verhofstadt, a Belgian MEP from the ranks of the political group Renew Europe of the European Parliament, has also turned out to be one of the people who have suddenly become very worried about the state of the media in Slovenia. After the infamous Politico article was published, accusing the Prime Minister Janez Janša