“The government of Robert Golob should correct the unacceptable political and ethical mistake it made by abolishing the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Communist Regime,” said former President of the Republic Borut Pahor on the occasion of the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of All Totalitarian and Authoritarian Regimes. Meanwhile, at …
“Former President Pahor is volunteering in Struga near Luče today, to help people affected by the floods,” Borut Pahor’s office said. The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) has been doing everything in its power to help in the recovery efforts since the first day of the devastating floods and landslides. The party’s …
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“Clearly, this mandate is seen as a mandate where dominance must be shown, as if this is a sign of power. However, if you are actually powerful, you don’t have to prove it,” former President of the Republic Borut Pahor recently told the weekly Domovina. After leaving his previous post, former President of the Republic, …
Borut Pahor has bid us farewell as President of the Republic. The first, and perhaps at least for one generation, the last President of the Republic who really tried to be the President of all Slovenians. As he stressed in his latest address at the beginning of the annual report of the President of the …
Gorazd Pučnik, son of one of the fathers of the Slovenian state, Jože Pučnik, recently received the Order of Extraordinary Merit, the highest state decoration, on his father’s behalf. The decoration had already been awarded in 2006 by the then-President of the Republic, Janez Drnovšek, who awarded it to Pučnik posthumously when Slovenia celebrated 15 …
“In the times ahead, we will need a connected and strong national and civic community,” stressed President of the Republic Borut Pahor, adding that people should keep this in mind when choosing who to support in the upcoming presidential elections. In doing so, Pahor made it clear that he does not support the divisive cultural …
A commemoration was held on Wednesday evening at the National Hall in Trieste to pay tribute to late Slovenian author Boris Pahor, who died aged 108 in Trieste on Monday. Slovenian President Borut Pahor remembered him as a “stubborn and strong-willed person with a clearly developed moral compass, a man who embodied the resistance against …
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President Borut Pahor held working talks with his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier to discuss the Russian aggression against Ukraine and exchange views on the situation in the Western Balkans. They spoke about Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and expressed their deep concern about this flagrant violation of the international order. They agreed that the situation should …
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President Borut Pahor and Prime Minister Janez Janša congratulated Emmanuel Macron on being elected the president of France for a second term in Sunday’s run-off of the presidential election. Both believe Slovenia and France will continue with their good cooperation, noting the importance of working together to tackle current challenges and issues. STA
President Borut Pahor received representatives of Zedinjena Slovenija (United Slovenia), the umbrella organisation of Slovenians in Argentina. The organisation’s president Jure Komar and secretary Marjana Poznič handed to Pahor a publication entitled Zdaj Gre za Slovenijo! (It Is About Slovenia Now), which Zedinjena Slovenia published to mark the 30th anniversary of Slovenia’s independence, the president’s …
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Slovenian President Borut Pahor emphasized the importance of the EU integrating the Western Balkans, in particular Bosnia-Herzegovina, as soon as possible to preserve peace and stability in Europe as he warned in a lecture in Vienna that the war in Ukraine revived “an outdated geopolitical mentality”. The EU’s enlargement to the Western Balkans “is a …
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President Borut Pahor and US Ambassador to Slovenia Jamie L. Harpootlian met to exchange views on topical developments in Ukraine. They stressed the role of the international community’s great unity on, and unambiguous response to, Russia’s military attack on Ukraine. Pahor presented more in detail his view on the situation in the Western Balkans upon …
