A year has passed already since the devastating storms hit Slovenia. The water receded, and the government’s promises of a speedy solution to the housing problems of the flood victims disappeared as soon as the tragedy was forgotten by the mainstream media. At the time, Prime Minister Robert Golob said that the rehabilitation would be …
Less than a year has passed since the devastating storms and consequent floods hit Slovenia, and already, another disaster has struck. Although there were already very few who believed Prime Minister Robert Golob’s promises at the time that the recovery would be swift and hundreds of new houses would be built in no time, there …
The Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) parliamentary group has tabled amendments to the Act Determining Intervention Measures for Recovery from the Floods and Landslides of August 2023, and the Act on Reconstruction, Development and Provision of Financial Sources. The aim of the amendment to the Act Determining Intervention Measures for Recovery from …
Months after the August floods, the Golob government is still using the storms as an excuse for all its other failures. According to MP Andrej Hoivik from the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), the “post-flood rehabilitation” was also one of the excuses for obtaining additional loans, which would, in fact, have served …
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The left-wing government of Robert Golob redirected funds earmarked for rehabilitation after the damage caused by natural disasters, even though the flood damage is far from being repaired and many flood zones are still dangerous for people. Following this week’s anti-corruption session, where Members of Parliament discussed controversial issues such as the seven-million-euro purchase of …
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We are now in the third month after the catastrophic floods that swept across two-thirds of Slovenia on the 4th of August. No one was spared, and there is still a large number of people who are still homeless and have not yet received answers to their questions from the government that promised to help …
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Assessments of the damage of the catastrophic August floods began to be talked about in the public domain soon after the floods ended. The initial estimates made by the Prime Minister proved to be grossly underestimated. Since those days, however, they have risen dramatically. Jelka Godec, leader of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka …
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“If we carry out the rehabilitation with additional debts, borrowing, that means, on the other hand, that we appear as a debtor with a higher existing debt, regardless of the reason for the increase in debt,” said the President of the Fiscal Council, Davorin Kračun, adding that any additional burden is also a burden on …
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On Friday, the Stožice stadium hosted a charity football match for flood victims organised by Aleksander Čeferin, or as the media euphorically reported, a “real charity football spectacle”. The event was also broadcast on television screens, and the whole thing was reported on in practically all the media and newspapers before and after the event, …
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With a variety of weather events coming to us in the upcoming days, many people are looking to the skies with concern. Especially in the areas where the devastating storms have already caused a great amount of damage in early August. In the Upper Savinja Valley area, the people are especially concerned because there is …
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Where will the money for flood recovery come from? So far, the state has relied almost exclusively on further fiscal burdening of the already overburdened working class through the institution of quasi-working Saturdays (which are, in reality, just an excuse for the state to confiscate one day of wages this year and one day of …
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“Just a little while to go…” is what Tanja Fajon, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister, wrote under a photo of her with a motorbike that she posted on her Instagram a few days ago. Meanwhile, the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) is helping on the ground every …
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