Coalition MPs today approved a record-high budget that will climb to €17.7 billion next year and reach €18 billion the year after. The deficit will amount to €2.1 billion in both years. The opposition has described the budget as a “fiscal spiral,” while economist Dr. Štefan Šumah warns that it is setting a trap for
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The Golob government clearly sees the referendum as crucial to its political survival, pouring enormous energy and political capital into the campaign. This has ranged from censoring the X accounts of professional medical associations to mobilizing the far-left “street” that helped the current rulers win the parliamentary elections. Now, it seems, they have also started
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After nearly three years of fighting for transparency, the European Court of Justice has forced the European Commission to disclose the long-concealed third point of the memo called “What we want from Accetto.” This document was created during the visit of the then-European Commission Vice-President, Věra Jourová, to Slovenia in 2022, at the time of
One of the most remarkable phenomena in Slovenian politics is that new governments, regardless of how disastrously they govern, maintain stable (albeit low) support. At least that is what Slovenian public opinion pollsters would have us believe. But what is the real sentiment of Slovenian voters? Perhaps we will only understand it when we examine
Slovenia is in the midst of a historically important moment, when the international situation calls for a clearer, more sovereign and more deliberate foreign policy stance. On the occasion of the launch of the print edition of the book “Consensus for a Historic Moment” (“Soglasje za zgodovinski trenutek”), which is the work of 74 authors,
Three years of Golob’s far-left government have left scars on Slovenia that will not be healed for generations. In an already egalitarian society, the coalition has introduced even more socialist levelling. Every day, we read about a new parameter that shows how far we have sunk. One of these is the OECD’s scale recording the
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At the elections to the National Assembly in 2022, Slovenians had to decide whether they wanted more or less state, higher taxes or lower taxes. In a fit of hysteria, they chose higher taxes and more state. Namely, 400 thousand people chose Robert Golob, who had already promised them higher taxes before the elections and
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The European People’s Party (EPP) mission visited Slovenia on Monday to check on the state of the rule of law, democracy and the media. As we have previously reported, the authorities avoided a meeting with the Members of the European Parliament. But Peter Gregorčič, former President of the Programme Council of the national media outlet,
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The European Parliament’s Committee on Petitions will draft a resolution on “preserving the memory of the victims of the post-war communist period in Slovenia,” said Bogdan Rzonca, the Committee’s chairman. The decision was taken by the representatives of the political groups in the Committee after Monday’s hearing of the petition on the subject in question.
This week has brought a new milestone in Slovenian parliamentarianism. At a meeting of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly, coalition MPs voted to silence the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska stranka – SDS) MP, Zvone Černač. They were very bothered by his criticism of the judiciary, which (according to their political folklore)
Thursday’s extraordinary session of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly will undoubtedly remain in many people’s memories for a long time to come. It was the first time in history that members of the coalition had taken the floor from a Member of Parliament by vote. There were also numerous interruptions of Slovenian
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Thursday’s meeting of the Committee on Justice of the National Assembly focused on Slovenia’s “miscarriage of justice”. MPs of the Slovenian Democratic Party (Slovenska demokratska straka – SDS) expressed their disagreement with the conduct of the Slovenian judicial system, which often acts unjustly, with many cases ending up before the European Court of Human Rights.
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