In the annual EU Justice Scoreboard overview, Slovenia faces serious challenges in tackling corruption in the judiciary. Despite an above-average number of judges, court proceedings for corruption and money laundering cases remain among the slowest in the European Union. The EU Justice Scoreboard 2025 and previous reports – produced by the European Commission since 2013
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Employees of the Ministry of Justice are apparently very unhappy with the way Minister Andreja Katič of the Social Democrats party (Socialni demokrati – SD) is running the Ministry. They have shown their rebellion by not expressing sufficient interest in attending the traditional New Year’s party. The employees’ reaction to the cancellation of the gathering,
“We can predict one thing with 100 percent certainty – even a conviction will not crush him, nor will it undermine voters’ confidence in the Slovenian Democratic Party,” said the former Interior Minister, Dr Vinko Gorenak. He was commenting on the prosecution of Janez Janša, which continued on Tuesday at the Celje court. Given the
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More than a year ago, four Constitutional Court judges overturned the decision of five Constitutional Court judges who had suspended the implementation of the Radio-Television Slovenia Act in the part that was related to the management of this important public institution. They thus allowed the legal mandate of the previous RTV leadership to end prematurely
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“Another announcement of a new judicial process just before the elections. Just like every time before, since 2008,” President of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS), Janez Janša, wrote on the social network X, saying that the regime had once again used any and all available means against him – with the
The government of Robert Golob is set to change the Constitution. If adopted, the proposed amendments would transfer the power to appoint judges from the National Assembly to the President of the Republic, as proposed by the Judicial Council. Not only that but the composition of the Judicial Council is also set to change. Following
On Friday, the Constitutional Commission of the National Assembly held an urgent meeting on the appointment of judges. As the leader of the opposition pointed out, the government is in a hurry to cement the 100-percent monopoly of the transitional left in the judiciary, and it is being aided and abetted by the New Slovenia
The predictions that the transitional left would try to use the mandate of the Robert Golob government to increase its grip on our democratic society are coming true. If the National Assembly approves the proposed amendments to the Courts Act and the Judicial Service Act, the public will no longer be able to access final
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Confidence in the Slovenian judiciary is falling sharply. Undoubtedly, matters such as the Balkan warriors, Novič, Patria and many other more or less high-profile cases have contributed to this. There is also a suspicion of corruption in these trials. Remember the so-called Friends in Bankruptcy affair in 2012, which resonated after media reports about allegedly
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The numbers of people infected with the new coronavirus remain high. After setting a new record on Tuesday – 4,481 infections, according to the NIJZ, 3,568 infections with the new coronavirus were confirmed on Wednesday. The share of positives was 39.3 percent. As more and more patients require hospital treatment due to respiratory failure, the
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According to the District State Prosecutor Maša Podlipnik, a person is allowed to do practically everything in the name of art. Namely, the prosecutor has assessed that in the case of vandalism of the building of the Ministry of Culture and harassment of the ministry’s employees by the suspects Vuk Čosić and Miha Zadnikar Ilić,
The double standards of the corrupt Slovenian judiciary are clearly evident in the case of former mayor of Maribor, Franc Kangler, who was the victim of numerous fabricated lawsuits, from which he emerged victorious – but the consequences are irreparable and leave a dark mark on his career and life. “The criminal investigators looked the