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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In the latest issue of the Demokracija magazine (“Democracy”), we took a closer look at the recent promotional “coffee meet-up” of Ljubljana Mayor Zoran Janković, Prime Minister Robert Golob, and the last leader of the Communist Party of Slovenia and first President of the Republic of Slovenia Milan Kučan at the Ljubljana market. By meeting …
The entire top brass of the Court of Audit, with the first signatory being the President, Jana Ahčin, sent a letter of protest to Prime Minister Robert Golob (the Freedom Movement party) and the Speaker of the National Assembly Urška Klakočar Zupančič (the Freedom Movement party), protesting the fact that the Parliament cut the institution’s …
“The Slovenian government is not the guardian of international law,” reads the Israeli response to Slovenia’s demarche regarding recent developments in Lebanon. The demarche, which our editorial office managed to obtain, also states that they regret “the unilateral and hostile statements made by Slovenian officials, in particular by the Slovenian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister.” …
Long queues of people – mostly the elderly – waited to register with a new family doctor in front of the Health Centre in Slovenska Bistrica on Monday, after the previous concessionary family doctor left and another family doctor retired earlier. This left thousands of citizens without a personal physician. The new doctor filled the …
During the term of the government of Janez Janša, the European Commission sent a special delegation to Slovenia to deal with alleged threats to the rule of law and media freedom, based on fabricated reports by Slovenian left-wing activists. It was rumoured that journalists dare not leave their apartments and that they are being intimidated …
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Last year, on the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of All Totalitarian Regimes, the government of Robert Golob took a selective approach to condemning totalitarianisms. While highlighting the crimes of fascism and Nazism, the communist regime remained in the shadows. Historians said at the time that this was a deliberate avoidance of confronting one’s …
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