A project entitled “Media Landscape in Slovenia – between Pluralization and Homogenization” is currently being implemented at the Faculty of Social Sciences (FDV) in Ljubljana and is co-financed by the Ministry of Culture. But apparently, no one at the Ministry finds it objectionable that the Minister’s partner is participating in the project as a member …
The writer Breda Smolnikar, who had demanded an “artist’s pension” from all culture ministers so far, has withdrawn her request. As she says, she certainly does not want to be a recipient of the artists’ pension along with those who have been rewarded for their “artistic” excesses so far. In a letter addressed to the …
It is sad to see that the coalition Left party (Levica) does not even know how much public housing has already been built and how much is yet to be built since the start of their term. One way or another (“more than two thousand”), this number is still a long way from the magic …
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Minister of Culture Asta Vrečko advocates for freedom of the media and journalistic reporting only in Serbia. In Slovenia, she has completely different criteria. Here, she is not opposed to the persecution of opposition media and the shameless funding of politically loyal media. The Minister for Culture, Asta Vrečko, recently criticised the fact that some …
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“Look, people have to work for 40 years. Two hundred thousand of them don’t even have a pension of 750 euros. All of these people are artists, because surviving with such a low amount of money is art,” MP Zvonko Černač of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) pointed out on a …
Asta Vrečko, the Minister of Culture and the President of the Left party (Levica), paid 8,346 euros to Svetlana Makarovič last June, in breach of the law and regulations, the Court of Audit has officially found in its audit of the government’s operations in 2023, which was published on Wednesday. Makarovič had already requested the …
The takeover of the Ministry of Culture by the far-left Left party (Levica) and its Coordinator, Asta Vrečko, has made the Ministry a kingdom for left-wing non-governmental organisations and the self-employed in culture. Every week, we hear about some new esoteric public tender for funds for NGOs or deserving artists who fought the battle of …
The government of Robert Golob continues to politically appoint its own people to senior positions even without them having the necessary competencies and meeting the required conditions for the said positions. We recently saw another example of this when the Minister of Culture, Asta Vrečko from the Left party (Levica), appointed Marijan Rupert, who does …
“It is time for the two-legged disgrace – also known as the Minister of Culture, Asta Vrečko – who is responsible for this debacle, to resign,” former Prime Minister Janez Janša said of the Frankfurt Book Fair fiasco. Minister Vrečko poured a lot of taxpayers’ money into the event, which was ruined by the appearance …
The payment of the 8,346 euros of prize money that Svetlana Makarović gave up decades ago because she did not want to be on stage with Fr Marko Ivan Rupnik, who won the prize for his mosaic in the Pope’s Redemptoris Mater Chapel at the Vatican, is still causing quite a stir. Namely, the fact …
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The Association for the Promotion of Traditional Values (Društvo za promocijo tradicionalnih vrednot) was granted the status of a non-governmental organisation of public interest under the mandate of former Minister of Culture Vasko Simoniti. At that time, the cultural activists not only verbally but even physically insulted the Ministry, since this status was, of course, …
Despite all its limitations, the apparatchik mind, which the Minister of Culture Asta Vrečko brings to Slovenian culture with gusto, zeal and true Comintern fervour, also has its own, so to speak, social-activist realisation. Since this is a broader social phenomenon, which the conduct of Minister Asta Vrečko brings into Slovenian life, we will call …
