“We can say, with 100% certainty, that the likelihood of this accident occurring would have been significantly reduced because following our proposal, all the trucks – because as we have seen today, in this case, it was a Slovak truck that caused the accident – would have had to drive this route through Slovenia at …
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The former Minister of the Interior, Aleš Hojs, ordered a coffee in a Ljubljana café on Thursday morning. He was meeting with former US Ambassador to Slovenia, Joseph Mussomeli, with whom he has maintained good relations even after Mussomeli left Slovenia. Then, the former Interior Minister was recognised by a supposedly regular guest of the …
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“We stop being hostage to these foreign and private non-governmental organisations that organise the routes, the traffic, the transport and the migratory policies,” the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, recently said. He has been dealing with the issue of illegal migration since his days as the Minister of the Interior, and he also announced …
“We stop being hostage to these foreign and private non-governmental organisations that organise the routes, the traffic, the transport and the migratory policies,” the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, Matteo Salvini, recently said. He has been dealing with the issue of illegal migration since his days as the Minister of the Interior, and he also …
Interior Minister Aleš Hojs called for a unified EU approach to migratory flows from Ukraine as he held talks yesterday with his Greek counterpart Notis Mitarachi. “The war in Ukraine and its consequences demand our utmost attention and concerted action by member states. During these difficult times we have to have maximum solidarity with Ukraine …
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Slovenia has the capacity to accommodate between 180,000 and 200,000 refugees from Ukraine, Interior Minister Aleš Hojs said on Sunday. “At least this is what we have discussed in the past few days,” he told the press after an informal session of the EU’s interior ministers on Sunday. Hojs noted that the figure is based …
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Interior Minister Aleš Hojs expressed opposition to France’s proposal under which EU countries which do not wish to accept migrants would need to contribute financially. “I will not support this proposal because I think we first need to comprehensively evaluate what solidarity is,” he said in Lille where he attended a session of the EU’s …
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Coming out of a meeting of EU home affairs ministers, Slovenia’s Aleš Hojs said it had been agreed that Croatia meets the conditions for entering the Schengen Area, and that it was a key step towards a final decision on the expansion of the no-passport zone. Minister Hojs believes other steps will follow relatively soon. …
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The National Assembly of the Republic of Slovenia and the European Parliament co-organised the ninth meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group on Europol, which was held in Brussels. The meeting was devoted to an overview of Europol’s activities in the present year and the presentation of Europol Draft Multiannual Programming Document 2022-2024. Cybercrime in …
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Minister of the Interior Aleš Hojs is participating as a panelist in a high-level conference marking the 10th anniversary of the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). Key topics of discussion include the development of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) over the last decade and EASO’s role, the situation in the area of international protection …
The Minister of the Interior, Aleš Hojs, participated in a high-level videoconference of the Radicalisation Awareness Network (EU-RAN) organised by the European Commission. The conference marked the 10th anniversary of the network and provided an opportunity for a discussion on ways of addressing radicalisation challenges. Minister Hojs noted that the pandemic and other socio-economic factors …
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The situation on the EU’s external border, in particular on the border with Belarus, was high on the agenda as the management board of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex) started a two-day meeting in Slovenia. Interior Minister Aleš Hojs said Frontex had to help EU member states as well as third countries. …
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