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 …
“With independence, the proclamation of the state on June 26th, 1991, we moved away from totalitarianism, with it we broke it. Independence is not an extension of the NOB; it is not an extension of the 45-year-old party consensus that you went to Čebine to pay your respects to. These are two stories, there is …
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The extreme left wing of RTV journalists again put pressure on their colleagues yesterday. Among them was Tatjana Pirc, a member of the Strategic Council for the Prevention of Hate Speech, and Culture Minister Asta Vrečko came to help them “depoliticise”. “I am standing here unfortunately not because I do not know what is going …
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“The government’s argument that the Museum of Independence should be merged with the Museum of Contemporary History of Slovenia for the purposes of “transparent and strategically outlined professional work,” is completely wrong and, in fact, a politically motivated argument which, objectively speaking, is directed against the understanding of the meaning of Slovenian independence and statehood,” …
“We strongly protest against the government’s decision to abolish the Museum of Slovenian Independence, which has been operating for more than a year and a half. In a challenging situation, when we are facing many problems, it is even more important to build a relationship with the country as a common value. We realised it …
The Ministry of Culture’s annual media tender has in the past been an unofficial funding source for the leftists, where their ideological friends in the government handed out financial support to keep them “working hard” throughout the year. When Simoniti was in charge of the Ministry and wanted to regulate this area – including so …
