The Defender-Europe 2021 military exercise took place on Thursday at the central training ground of the Slovenian Army in Poček. In addition to Prime Minister Janez Janša and Defence Minister Matej Tonin, it was also visited by the Commander of the US Forces in Europe, General Tod D. Wolters, and the leader of the exercise …
Prime Minister Janez Janša announced some good news regarding the covid-19 epidemic and the related vaccination process, which is crucial for the return to the time we knew before the epidemic. “There are currently around 800 thousand people in Slovenia who are at least partially protected due to the vaccination or because they already recovered …
Message by Prime Minister Janez Janša for 1 May, International Labour Day, and the day celebrating St Joseph the Worker. Although many values can be found in work, we must not forget the truth: Work is for man, not man for work. These words of Pope Paul VI particularly speak to us on this year’s …
Three months after Janez Janša nominated Pedro Opeka and his humanitarian organisation Akamasoa, which operates in the suburbs of Madagascar’s capital Antananarivo, for the Nobel Peace Prize for 20201, the Slovenian Prime Minister now also officially met with the long-term Slovenian missionary who works in Madagascar. As Janez Janša announced on Twitter, on Thursday, during …
Yesterday, Prime Minister Janez Janša paid a working visit to Paris at the invitation of the President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron. This visit will contribute significantly to the deepening of the dialogue with the French Republic at the highest political level. Yesterday’s talk will touch upon the successive Slovenian and French presidencies of …
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Janez Janša attended the unveiling of the memorial commemorating the 30th anniversary of the DEMOS coalition meeting, at which the commitment to realise the plebiscite decision regarding the independent and sovereign Republic of Slovenia was confirmed, and it was also decided that the key steps in the process of Slovenian independence …
Prime Minister Janez Janša attended the first meeting of the Strategic Council for Digitalisation on 23. April. At the meeting, the members of the Strategic Council for Digitalisation spoke about the goals of the Council, the timeline and the organisation of the work. They also presented some content-related proposals. In his opening address, Prime Minister …
“We will slaughter her or behead the children with an axe so that they will not be the heirs of the state of Slovenia. Fuck you,” an extremist wrote in broken Slovene, in a threatening letter he sent to the Celje General Hospital, where the wife of Prime Minister Janez Janša, Urška Bačovnik Janša, is …
Yesterday, Prime Minister Janez Janša was on a working visit in Poland. The purpose of the visit is to strengthen political and economic cooperation between the two countries, and to exchange views and positions on current European affairs and foreign policy issues, with talks focusing on bilateral cooperation and the priorities of the Slovenian Presidency …
“The last time I met the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, was last year. It would be quite difficult for me to physically hand over anything to him in February or March of this year, as the obscure web portal you cite writes. Slovenia is very serious in trying to find solutions for …
The Prime Minister’s Office announced that Janez Janša was the speaker at a virtual conference entitled “Changing paradigms in a pandemic world: How to regain trust?” – Health, happiness, and ethics”. The virtual conference was held under the auspices of the World Forum for Ethics and Business. The conference was also attended by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, …
At the 67th extraordinary session of the National Assembly, Prime Minister Janez Janša spoke about the proposal for a Declaration on the Orientations for the Republic of Slovenia’s functioning in the European Union institutions for the period 2021–2024. As the Prime Minister said at the outset, we had already discussed a similar declaration twelve times …
